The TNA team told the MPs that the Sri Lankan government was not serious about the resettlement of the Tamil refugees as it had other plans for the Wanni area, previously controlled by the LTTE. As per Suresh Premachandran, TNA MP for Jaffna district, the TNA delegation pointed out that only 50 days remain for the Sri Lankan government to fulfill its promise to resettle 80 percent of the refugees in 180 days. But till date, only 20,000 refugees had been moved out of the camps. Even these had not been sent back to their villages but to transit camps. The government was using de-mining as an excuse for delaying resettlement, he charged. The TNA delegation pointed out that de-mining had taken place only in 32 villages in Mannar and Vavuniya districts. There was no de-mining in Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi districts. The TNA delegation pointed out that in war torn countries like Vietnam and Cambodia, mines were no bar to resettlement, and that de-mining was going on years after war had ended. According to Premachandran, the Sri Lankan government had plans to settle Sinhalese in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts so that at least 30 percent of the population would be Sinhalese. ‘There is a plan to change the demographic pattern in the Wanni area so that there is no such thing as a Tamil province,’ Premachandran charged. He further said that Buddhist stupas were being built in the Wanni with an intention to change to the culture and ethnicity of these areas. Sudarshana Nachiappan of the Congress asked if there was a possibility of an military resistance if the Rajapaksa government were to accommodate the Tamils. The TNA delegation replied that there was no such possibility in Sri Lanka. Rauf Hakeem, the leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), told the delegation that any settlement of the North Eastern question would have to take into account the Tamil-speaking Muslims also, as they had suffered under the LTTE and were marginalised by Sinhalese majoritrianism.