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Is Sri Lanka’s extensive military spending directed at India? TGTE Prime Minister V. Rudrakumaran.
- April 13, 2022
- ENGLISH NEWS
“India, which is providing humanitarian assistance to Sri Lanka should raise the question of why Sri Lanka is incurring these unbridled military spendings”
V. Rudrakumaran, the Prime Minister of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) has said that Sri Lanka’s continued spending indiscriminately on its military long after its war on Tamils ended and while Tamils were engaged in peaceful protests has relevance to India.
He said in a statement on the current economic crisis in Sri Lanka and on Sri Lankan military’s continued statements that there were no domestic threats and that its military was capable of facing any foreign threat, as expressions of the Sinhala nation’s majestic attitude towards any likely invasion of Sri Lanka.
He referred to the comments made by Sri Lankan Defense Secretary, General Kamal Gunaratne, on recent reports that Indian troops had entered Sri Lanka, saying “the Sri Lankan military has the capability to deal with any situation to ensure national security.”
“Since the end of the war, Sri Lanka has maintained its Security forces allocating 11 % of its national spending to defence in 2009-17 & spent $1716 million more during this period than during the war”— V. Rudrakumaran
India, which has been providing humanitarian assistance to Sri Lanka in a friendly manner to alleviate the livelihood crisis faced by the people in the economic crisis, should raise the question of why Sri Lanka is incurring these unbridled military spendings. India must press for the complete withdrawal of the Sri Lankan army from the occupied Tamil nation.
Since the end of the war in 2009, Sri Lanka has largely maintained its military, and its Special Task Force as well as the Police, allocating 11 % of its national spending to defence in 2009-17, having spent $ 1716 million more during this period than during the war.
Sri Lanka has become the world’s largest country with 99 percent of its troops in operation, and spends $ 170 million a year on military pensions alone
Prime Minister Rudrakumaran has noted that the Sri Lankan government, which has increased the salaries of security forces by 45 % since the end of the war, has stationed most of its military in the occupied Tamil homeland.
Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran
Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam
(TGTE)
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