(AT)Britain, a country that has been a victim of terrorism of all sorts, made a bold a statement recently highlighting the right of the government of Sri Lanka to defeat it militarily while emphasizing the need of a political solution in the long run.
The statement issued by the Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs on Sri Lanka on 21 January 2009, clearly says that it does not recognize the LTTE as the representatives of the Tamil population in the island nation. On the contrary, it has been explicit in its condemnation of the outfit for the blatant abuses committed by the organization against all the communities in the name of liberation of the race, they say that they represent. Full Text