Cash-strapped Sri Lankan government has lifted restrictions on 6 Tamil expatriate groups and 316 individuals. The Sri Lankan government is struggling to find a long-term solution to the unprecedented economic crisis that has struck the island nation. The ban on these groups and individuals was lifted by the Ministry of Defense by issuing an extraordinary gazette.
According to news portal adaderana.lk, 316 individuals and six migrant groups were removed from the list of banned on Saturday. According to the portal, the six groups of migrants from which the ban has been lifted include Australian Tamil Congress, Global Tamil Forum, World Tamil Coordinating Committee, Tamil Eelam People’s Assembly, Canadian Tamil Congress and British Tamil Forum.
It said that the removal of the detainees from the list has been announced through an amendment to the list of persons designated under Regulation 4(7) of United Nations Regulation No.1 of 2012.
In 2014, the Mahinda Rajapaksa government accused the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and 15 other groups of Tamil migrants for their alleged links to terrorism and a role in the brutality during the country’s three-decade-long war. was banned because of
In 2015, then-President Maithripala Sirisena lifted the ban on these groups to initiate the rebuilding of Tamil-majority areas of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province that had been devastated by civil war. However, in 2021, Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government re-banned these groups and refused to talk to them.
Sri Lanka is going through an unprecedented economic crisis and incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government believes that re-engaging Tamil expatriate groups in the dialogue process will help the cash-strapped government attract much-needed foreign exchange.
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