Sri Lanka, May 20 -- The war was conducted not against the Tamil people but with LTTE terrorists, Member of Parliament Namal Rajapaksa said.

The MP stated this while addressing the Parliament. Expressing a view there, the MP stated a view such as this:

"Specially, seventeen years pass by now after ending the war that existed for thirty years. May 18 was the day it was ended, and it was on May 19 that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa officially notified it in Parliament. A large number of people in this country made sacrifices for that war victory. The war heroes, police, civil security department, and also the citizens of this country, representing Tamil, Sinhala, Hindu, and every race in this country, made a huge sacrifice to end tha...