Website: www.sluna.org
E-mail: sluna@idirect.com
MEDIA
RELEASE May
27, 2008
The
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which launched offensive actions
commencing around December 2005 including stoppage of water from Mavil Aru to
30000 farming families, were earlier driven out of the eastern province by
retaliatory measures taken by the government security forces resulting in their
defeat and eviction from the region in early 2007. Further steps being taken by the government
to neutralize the military capability of the LTTE terrorists has seen the
boundaries of the usurped territory held by Tamil Tigers fast receding, despite
the enormous amount of landmines and booby traps laid to stop the advancing
government troops.
The
call to lay down arms and enter the democratic stream has been ignored by the
LTTE, as they attempt to hold on to the patch of jungle in the Vanni which is
the nucleus of the dream state of ‘Tamil Eelam’, which they hoped to foist on
the international scene with funds extorted from the Tamil Diaspora in Canada
and other western countries, narcotics smuggling, gun running, human smuggling
and an unending list of illicit activities together with the blessings of
interventionist NGOs and INGOs that would like to see Sri Lanka divided on
ethnic lines. As their dream of empire
building evaporates, the cowardly LTTE cadres who have infiltrated the capital
city of Colombo and other parts of Sri Lanka are targeting civilians with bombs
and guns on a regular basis. The deadly
scorecard of the LTTE’s terror attacks in just the past month are listed below:
May
26, 2008 – Time
bomb explodes in rush hour passenger train near Dehiwela at 4.55 p.m.
killing 9 and
injuring 84;
May
25, 2008 - Time bomb discovered at Madawala junction in
Wattegama near Electric
Transformer, and
defused in time;
May
25, 2008 - Time bomb placed in a passenger bus was
discovered at Moratuwa and
Defused;
May
24, 2008
- Time bomb discovered in a passenger bus
near Ganemulla and diffused;
May
21, 2008
- Minor explosion at Katugastota Railway
Bridge – Little damage;
May
17, 2008 - Sinhala youth shot dead in Vavunia;
May
16, 2008 - Suicide bomber on motorbike attacks bus in
Colombo Fort killing 10 and
injuring 95;
May
13, 2008 - Human Rights Lawyer, Maheswary Velayutham,
shot and killed in her
Sick mother’s house
in Jaffna;
May
12, 2008
- Tamil businessman shot dead in
Kokuvil, Jaffna;
May
10, 2008
- Indiscriminate mortar attack injures 4
in Damana village;
May
09, 2008 - Bomb planted in New City Café in Ampara Town
kills 12 and injures 31;
May
09, 2008 - Tamil businessman shot and killed in Nallur,
Kopay;
May
07, 2008 - Tamil civilian shot dead at Puntotam, Vavunia
May
06, 2008 - Tamil dissient from PLOTE group killed in
Vavunia;
May
06, 2008 - Claymore attack kills 2 civilians in Vavunia;
May
06, 2008 - 15 kg. Claymore blast injures 2 incl.
Buddhist monk at Mahavilachchiya;
May
03, 2008 - Claymore blast injures 2 at Kebittigollewa;
April
30, 2008 - Artillery fire directed at civilians in
Siripura, Welioya;
April
29, 2008 - Tamil youth shot dead in Kokuvil;
April
28, 2008 - Farmer killed by Claymore blast close to
Nikawewa;
April
28, 2008 - Time bomb discovered in passenger bus at
Ganemulla, and defused;
April
26, 2008 - Time bomb detonated in a passenger bus at
Piliyandala, killing 26
and injuring 64;
The
authorities have the unenviable task of flushing out the LTTE cadres who
continue to operate from safe houses in the capital city, suburbs, and other
parts of the country. In some instances,
vigilant members of the public have been able to assist by alerting the police
to suspicious parcels containing bombs left inside buses, trains and public
places, where it was possible to defuse these on time and avoid harm. Sri Lanka has also earlier been fortunate in
detecting two trucks carrying payloads of over 1000 kilograms of explosives
hidden under the floor boards in one of them, whilst the other contained the
deadly cargo hidden between the cab and the freezer compartment, with regular
merchandise such as coconuts and fish in the visible area destined for Colombo,
which would have caused a colossal amount of death and destruction.
Regular
search and cordon operations, inspections at security check points,
intelligence gathering, are some of the means of combating a shadowy and
elusive enemy who functions like a robot, carrying out terror attacks directed
by the megalomaniacal terrorist leader from his jungle den and other handlers
who would communicate by coded electronic messages to activate the trained
killers waiting with packs of explosives and cyanide necklaces to unleash
themselves on selected targets. The
suicide bombers belong to the Black Tiger Suicide Squad made up of Tamil youth
many of whom are women, who have been brainwashed for a considerable period of
time, waiting for the moment of glory biding their time when they could become
human bombs darting metal pellets that could seriously harm people within a
radius of 100 feet. Up to now, the Tamil
Tigers have carried out nearly 274 suicide bombings mainly against civilians,
and far outstrip the other terror groups that have followed their lead. It is therefore necessary to use the special
powers of search and detention to apprehend the shadowy killers, even if it
means that some Tamils who are not involved with the LTTE too have to be
detained on occasion in suspicious situations pending investigation, in order
to safeguard the law abiding citizens from all communities including the large
number of Tamils who have opted to live in mixed ethnic surroundings midst the
Muslim and the Sinhalese people.
Yours
very truly,
Mahinda
Gunasekera
Honorary
President