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MEDIA
RELEASE June
7, 2008
In
our last media release dated May 27, 2008, we listed 23 occasions where the
Tamil Tiger Terrorists carried out separate attacks within the 30 day period
from April 26 to May 26, 2008, killing a total of 67 civilians and injuring 199
others by means of time bombs, claymore mines, and gun fire aimed at
non-combatant civilians going about their daily tasks in buses, trains or
attending to ordinary household duties. The LTTE terror machine continued to
target civilians clearly demonstrating their savagery, with the intent of
provoking the people to retaliate against their Tamil neighbours to cause
widespread unrest. They have only
instilled more determination in the minds of the public that these brutal
terrorists should be eliminated at whatever cost in order that the essential
ingredients of peace and democracy may be restored throughout the land for
building a stable economy and a brighter future for all citizens.
The
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which is facing elimination as the
boundaries of their heavily mined patch of jungle recedes each day, and their
dreams of a Tamil empire of “Eelam” is also fast dissipating as the government
troops advance into the usurped territory.
These desperate terrorists continue to train their weapons on unarmed
civilians blowing up the remainder of the stockpile of deadly weapons procured
through Diaspora funds given and extorted, plus a range of illicit operations,
as they go down to defeat and ignominy.
The deadly scorecard of the LTTE’s terror attacks in just the past nine
days are listed below:
May
29, 2008 – Artillery fire aimed from
LTTE’s Pooneryn base kills 6 and injures 12 Tamil
civilians in Jaffna
peninsula;
May
29, 2008 - Shakthi TV correspondent and EPDP member
(both Tamils) hacked to death
By LTTE cadres in
Jaffna ;
May
30, 2008 - Claymore bomb found in a passenger bus at
Moratuwa and diffused on time;
May
30, 2008
- Terrorists enter house in remote
Rajanganaya village, killing 50 year old mother
and seriously
injuring her husband;
May
31, 2008
- Hand Grenade attack on office workers
waiting at a bus stop in Wellawatte
Kills 2 and injures
9 others;
June
02, 2008
- 3 landmines laid on Pirappamadu Road
in Vavuniya detected and deactivated;
June
04, 2008 - Bomb detonated on rail track near Wellawatte
at 7.10 a.m. injures 20 passengers
June
04, 2008 - Stock of arms and explosives detected in
Wellawatte;
June 05, 2008 - 2.5 kg Time Bomb hidden close to the Bus Stand and Electricity Transformer
in Ragama detected and defused in the 11th hour;
June
06, 2008 - Claymore mine attack on passenger bus at
Katubedde at 7.45 a.m. killing 21
and seriously
injuring 55 others;
June
06, 2008
- 5 Kg Claymore mine detected in Mount
Lavinia later deactivated;
June
06, 2008
- A bomb placed in a bus was detonated
at 3.45 p.m. near Polgolla, Kandy,
Killing 1 and
seriously injuring 12 others;
As a rule, the LTTE never admits to any criminal act. It took them 15 years to admit their role in the killing of Rajiv Gandhi. The human rights watch dogs and foreign funded NGOs with questionable agendas also keep mum, as they see no evil, hear no evil, and also remain tongue tied when it comes to atrocities on the part of the LTTE.
Yours very
truly,
Mahinda Gunasekera
Honorary
President