MEDIA RELEASE

TAMIL TIGER PROJECT “EELAM” DISMANTLED IN SRI LANKA

Sri Lanka’s security forces have succeeded in neutralizing the military capabilities of the most brutal terrorist group known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers, and rescuing the remaining 63000 Tamil civilians held hostage by the Tigers to form a human shield in the diminishing sliver of land of approximately three square kilometres where the LTTE made its final stand. The Tiger leaders who kept the civilians at gun point hoping for foreign assistance to extricate themselves from the military cordon by manipulating the Diaspora in western countries to pressure their respective jurisdictions to intervene in Sri Lanka and devise an exit plan to continue their terrorist war, reached their end game in the same violent way in which they lived.

The 20 million civilians of Sri Lanka who were subjected to a thirty year nightmare of bus, train and shopping centre bombings, claymore mine attacks, truck bombings of public buildings, suicide bombings, ethnic cleansing of non-Tamils of the north and east, forcible child conscription, pistol gang attacks and other violent acts carried out by the ruthless Tamil Tiger terrorists could now breathe a sigh of relief, and look forward to going about their day to day affairs without fear of being suddenly struck down by the hidden hand of the terrorists.

The Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada and other western countries who have been funding the Tamil Tigers during the last 25 years were being orchestrated by the senior members of the terror outfit to demonstrate, block highways and pressure their respective legislators to intervene in Sri Lanka to arrange for the surrender of the Tiger leaders to a third party, in order to find a safe exit and asylum elsewhere to continue with their violent struggle to destabilize Sri Lanka. They were not concerned about the Tamil civilians who had been forced to uproot themselves from their villages in the Vanni and move with the retreating Tamil Tigers from mid-2007 and end up in the narrow sliver of land in the northeast coast in Puthumattalan where they were used as a human shield.

Despite the inhumane attacks of the Tamil Tigers and the constant threat of harm to their lives by this terror group, the Sri Lankans led by the Sinhalese have responded magnanimously to help their long suffering brothers and sisters in the Tamil community who have since been rescued from the clutches of terrorists after a period of over two decades. All necessities from food, water, medicine, clothing, toys and other essentials are being delivered daily to collection centres for delivery to the Tamil civilians presently being cared for in the welfare camps pending resettlement in their villages following de-mining and repairs to homes and infrastructure.

We too have joined hands with the people of Sri Lanka in this humanitarian exercise by contributing funds and shipping a consignment of urgently needed medical requirements by air. We have been extending help to the needy people of Sri Lanka irrespective of ethnicity or other background, especially those who were freed earlier from the Tamil Tigers in the eastern province in 2006. The Sinhalese and other peace loving citizens from all of the constituent communities are extending a helping hand and building bridges to the Tamil community to reach an amicable settlement of their perceived grievances, whilst resolving urgent issues affecting the less fortunate members of all other communities who have also been similarly affected having lived lives of hardship and deprivation during the past three decades.

Yours very truly,

Mahinda Gunasekera

Honorary President