The release of 16 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suspects demonstrates that the government is paying attention to the needs of the Tamil community, states the Member of Parliament (MP) of Tamil National Alliance (TNA), Kilinochchi District, S. Sridharan on June 26, reports Daily News. He stated, “The issue of releasing Tamil political prisoners became a slogan of the Tamil National Alliance as the struggle continued as a Party, the relatives of the Tamil political prisoners organized separately. In the end, as a result of all these demands, a separate voluntary movement for the release of these prisoners emerged. The government took steps to release 16 Tamil political prisoners”.