JVP parliamentary group leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addressing a seminar at the Galle Town Hall, called upon the Government to submit a list of LTTE suspects in custody since it had been revealed that there were nearly 10,000 of them.

The seminar focused on why Provincial Councils should not be vested with Police and land powers.

It was the JVP that urged the government to establish democracy in the country during the

period of the separatist war. "We are even prepared to launch a struggle in our bid to establish democracy", he said.

What the Government was attempting to introduce is a federal system of ruling that would weaken the State. This country consists of people who speak two languages, three communities and four religions. The colonial rulers divided the country on these lines to make ruling easy

"This country had separatists before and after independence. After 1978, the LTTE, EROS, TELO and PLOTE were established and India encouraged and promoted them. The pinnacle of the separatist cause in the country was when the ceasefire agreement was signed in 2002. Though we have defeated terrorism, separatism is still in force", he said.

Those who then said that terrorism cannot be defeated and as such power should be devolved, now are advocating the cause of devolution, he said.

MP Dissanayake also said that this post LTTE era must be put to good use by uniting the people of all communities and defeating separatism.