FOREIGN Secretary Palitha Kohona stressed that there was no need for special missions from other countries to evacuate the IDPs from the safe zone and the situation may not arise as over 100,000 civilians have already moved to the cleared areas.
Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe pointed out that the international community feared that there will be a blood bath in the NFZ but it has been proved beyond doubt that it is not so.
LTTE had forcibly kept the UN missions which visited the Wanni in the past and now the question is how such missions could visit the NFZ given the present conditions he said.
Asked about the number of Tiger cadres taking cover behind the civilians in the NFZ the Minister said it would be around 15,000.
"Even Daya Master has come out with this figure and he can’t be wrong," Samarasinghe said. (Courtesy : The Island)
