19-05-2006
Mr.S.P.Thamilselvan,
Political Leader,
LTTE,
Kilinochchi.
My Dear Thamilselvan,
I strongly condemn the massacre of the 65 innocent civilians and causing fatal injuries to over 70 others by your cadre at Keppitigollawa by a clay-more attack on the 15th of this month, within 24 hours of your arrival from Oslo where you went in connection with the peace talks. You should accept responsibility for this disgraceful action. No one is going to believe your denial. This type of incidents bring utter disgrace to a community once held at high esteem by the International Community.
The attempt of your cadre, obviously on your orders or with your knowledge, to sink the Navy ship with its 710 soldiers and the crew is highly deplorable. The brutal killings of the 13 civilians including women and small children and the total annihilation of a family with two children at Vankalai are also equally deplorable. It is not a question as to who is doing all these. I am asking you as to why are these happening? Don’t blame the others for your faults. Please don’t forget that it is your sacred duty to safeguard the civilians. If you have any regard for the innocent civilians, not a single life will be lost due to your actions. But while you take the life of some soldiers you don’t fail to take the lives of some innocent civilians also and up to now you have not even tendered any apology for any civilian deaths caused by you, but keep on repeating the same mistake. You cry from the roof tops when some one gets killed due to the attack of the service personnel. Please remember that we do not have Gandhians in the armed forces, to ignore what ever happens. It is your attacks on the army personnel that provoke them to retaliate. I condemn all killings and do not justify any killing under any circumstances. I ask you to stop all killings by your cadre and see, from that moment all other killings also will stop.
The soldiers whom you tried to kill are the very same people who had been providing security for you, your leaders and your cadre to and from the Air Port and the East. In all seriousness I am asking you as to whether you have the concurrence of your leader for your acts of this nature and for your notorious statements often ridiculed by the International Community. Are you also trying to confirm my finding that the LTTE leader Mr. V.Prabaharan has lost control of his cadre and each one of them is now a leader taking independent decisions. Good many of your statements display arrogance and disrespect on your part and does not give the impression that you are all ready for a settlement. Your frequent threats of war reminds me of the shepherd boy who used to shout “wolf’’ “ wolf” and ultimately paid for his folly with his entire flock. Similar tune is often heard from some of your local leaders and your proxy Parliamentarians. It is good for them and for all of us, if they keep quite. Let no one dream that an organization like yours can win a war by antagonizing the whole world. Tamils like all others do not want a war. They are not your people. Please stop calling them “our people”.
The country is well aware of your plans. So the International Community too. You engage your cadre in very provocative activities to instigate the Sinhalese to start a backlash. So far you have not succeeded. You tried your best to start one in Trincomalee hoping that it will spread to other parts of the country, but to your disappointment whatever happened was confined to the Trincomalee district. Will anyone with a bit of commonsense plant a bomb at the market square the day before the New Year, knowing fully well that a large number of Sinhalese men women and children will gather at that market square for their New Year marketing. The events that followed the bomb blast were deplorable. This was deliberately done by your cadre to provoke the Sinhalese. Whether they did it on their own or on the instructions from you I do not known. But the fact remains that a number of Sinhalese and Tamils lost their lives and Tamil property worth several crores destroyed or looted due to the foolish act of an individual. I hold you responsible for this irresponsible act done with the intention of causing harm to a few hundred thousand Tamils who fled their homes and living peacefully with Sinhalese and Muslims in the South. Fortunately the people are aware of your vicious intentions that there is peace in all areas other than in Trincomalee. Your massacre of 65 civilians at Keppitigollawa is another attempt to incite the Sinhalese and to provoke a backlash. But the Sinhalese have successfully defeated your plot once again.
Please note that I strongly condemn violence and do not condone any killing by anybody. No one has any right to take another person’s life under any circumstances. It is a big joke if you say that there are a number of front Organizations responsible for some criminal activities. Please admit that most of these Organisations are fictitious ones and managed by your cadre. It is you who said that the civilians are planting clay-more mines which statement was ridiculed by the International Community. The causalities in most cases happen to be not only from the army or navy but also innocent civilians. If any civilian is killed in retaliation you must take the responsibility for such killings as well. You say that you give training to the University Students for self-defense. Self-defense against whom?. You mix them up with your cadre who get involved in some incident and escape. It is some innocent University Students who get killed. You gave compulsory training to the three wheeler owners and mixed some of your cadre with them. Some incident takes place somewhere and your cadre responsible for such incidents vanish from the scene leaving some innocent owners at the mercy of the forces who in retaliation punished them. I was shocked to learn that the Students Union had claimed responsibility for throwing a hand grenade at the army killing and injuring some. I totally disbelieve the involvement by any student. But if you say so, then you must take the responsibility for the killings of any such Students also.
I had said more then once that the International Community cannot be hood -winked by you. They are well aware of all your activities and are not prepared to believe bundles of lies unfolded by you. Everyday you kill somebody from the Armed forces by throwing hand grenade or by clay-more mines or using your pistol group. A lot of innocent civilians also get killed in these operations. Yet you keep on blaming the forces for the killings without accepting your involvements. You stop your killings first and you will see that other killings all over the country also stop automatically. Whose brain is behind the call to all sections of the people to stop all work continously for some days? Why didn’t your killings also take a holiday? You don’t know how much sufferings the people underwent and to what extent the studies of our children preparing for the G.C.E (A/L) Examination suffered.
I appeal to you to call off all your notorious activities, now that you have failed in your mission and allow the Tamil People to live in Peace. You have cheated the Tamil people, the youths and the students in particular and also the Government and the International Community including the Norweign facilitators.
You have also destroyed our homes, our health our youths, our children’s Educations our culture and much cherished civilization. You have made all of us paupers. You have taken away our Democratic and Fundamental Rights and eroded into our Human Rights also. You are now trying to establish a totalitarian State. Please pack up and leave with your families and join your children having supper class Education in various countries. Left alone our people can look after themselves. The International Community is there if any protection is needed. But today they need protection only from your cadre. That is why they are moving to the South to live with the Sinhalese and the Muslims. Tamils fleeing to Tamil Nad in India is to avoid going into areas under your control because they don’t want to live under your subjugation.
In conclusion I request you to spare our youths at-least now. Every day not only you take the lives of the Sinhalese soldiers and Police officers who attend only to disputes between civilians, but also take the lives of innocent Tamils Sinhalese and Muslims. You also sacrifice our youths by sending them on various risky errands to many places from where most of them do not return alive. I am not asking you to send your children on such errands because they are dear to you. I am only asking you not to sacrifice the children of poor parents and allow them to study like your children.
Thanking You,
Yours sincerely,
V. Anandasangaree,
President-TULF
Mr.S.P.Thamilselvan,
Political Leader,
LTTE,
Kilinochchi.
My Dear Thamilselvan,
STOP YOUR KILLINGS
I strongly condemn the massacre of the 65 innocent civilians and causing fatal injuries to over 70 others by your cadre at Keppitigollawa by a clay-more attack on the 15th of this month, within 24 hours of your arrival from Oslo where you went in connection with the peace talks. You should accept responsibility for this disgraceful action. No one is going to believe your denial. This type of incidents bring utter disgrace to a community once held at high esteem by the International Community.
The attempt of your cadre, obviously on your orders or with your knowledge, to sink the Navy ship with its 710 soldiers and the crew is highly deplorable. The brutal killings of the 13 civilians including women and small children and the total annihilation of a family with two children at Vankalai are also equally deplorable. It is not a question as to who is doing all these. I am asking you as to why are these happening? Don’t blame the others for your faults. Please don’t forget that it is your sacred duty to safeguard the civilians. If you have any regard for the innocent civilians, not a single life will be lost due to your actions. But while you take the life of some soldiers you don’t fail to take the lives of some innocent civilians also and up to now you have not even tendered any apology for any civilian deaths caused by you, but keep on repeating the same mistake. You cry from the roof tops when some one gets killed due to the attack of the service personnel. Please remember that we do not have Gandhians in the armed forces, to ignore what ever happens. It is your attacks on the army personnel that provoke them to retaliate. I condemn all killings and do not justify any killing under any circumstances. I ask you to stop all killings by your cadre and see, from that moment all other killings also will stop.
The soldiers whom you tried to kill are the very same people who had been providing security for you, your leaders and your cadre to and from the Air Port and the East. In all seriousness I am asking you as to whether you have the concurrence of your leader for your acts of this nature and for your notorious statements often ridiculed by the International Community. Are you also trying to confirm my finding that the LTTE leader Mr. V.Prabaharan has lost control of his cadre and each one of them is now a leader taking independent decisions. Good many of your statements display arrogance and disrespect on your part and does not give the impression that you are all ready for a settlement. Your frequent threats of war reminds me of the shepherd boy who used to shout “wolf’’ “ wolf” and ultimately paid for his folly with his entire flock. Similar tune is often heard from some of your local leaders and your proxy Parliamentarians. It is good for them and for all of us, if they keep quite. Let no one dream that an organization like yours can win a war by antagonizing the whole world. Tamils like all others do not want a war. They are not your people. Please stop calling them “our people”.
The country is well aware of your plans. So the International Community too. You engage your cadre in very provocative activities to instigate the Sinhalese to start a backlash. So far you have not succeeded. You tried your best to start one in Trincomalee hoping that it will spread to other parts of the country, but to your disappointment whatever happened was confined to the Trincomalee district. Will anyone with a bit of commonsense plant a bomb at the market square the day before the New Year, knowing fully well that a large number of Sinhalese men women and children will gather at that market square for their New Year marketing. The events that followed the bomb blast were deplorable. This was deliberately done by your cadre to provoke the Sinhalese. Whether they did it on their own or on the instructions from you I do not known. But the fact remains that a number of Sinhalese and Tamils lost their lives and Tamil property worth several crores destroyed or looted due to the foolish act of an individual. I hold you responsible for this irresponsible act done with the intention of causing harm to a few hundred thousand Tamils who fled their homes and living peacefully with Sinhalese and Muslims in the South. Fortunately the people are aware of your vicious intentions that there is peace in all areas other than in Trincomalee. Your massacre of 65 civilians at Keppitigollawa is another attempt to incite the Sinhalese and to provoke a backlash. But the Sinhalese have successfully defeated your plot once again.
Please note that I strongly condemn violence and do not condone any killing by anybody. No one has any right to take another person’s life under any circumstances. It is a big joke if you say that there are a number of front Organizations responsible for some criminal activities. Please admit that most of these Organisations are fictitious ones and managed by your cadre. It is you who said that the civilians are planting clay-more mines which statement was ridiculed by the International Community. The causalities in most cases happen to be not only from the army or navy but also innocent civilians. If any civilian is killed in retaliation you must take the responsibility for such killings as well. You say that you give training to the University Students for self-defense. Self-defense against whom?. You mix them up with your cadre who get involved in some incident and escape. It is some innocent University Students who get killed. You gave compulsory training to the three wheeler owners and mixed some of your cadre with them. Some incident takes place somewhere and your cadre responsible for such incidents vanish from the scene leaving some innocent owners at the mercy of the forces who in retaliation punished them. I was shocked to learn that the Students Union had claimed responsibility for throwing a hand grenade at the army killing and injuring some. I totally disbelieve the involvement by any student. But if you say so, then you must take the responsibility for the killings of any such Students also.
I had said more then once that the International Community cannot be hood -winked by you. They are well aware of all your activities and are not prepared to believe bundles of lies unfolded by you. Everyday you kill somebody from the Armed forces by throwing hand grenade or by clay-more mines or using your pistol group. A lot of innocent civilians also get killed in these operations. Yet you keep on blaming the forces for the killings without accepting your involvements. You stop your killings first and you will see that other killings all over the country also stop automatically. Whose brain is behind the call to all sections of the people to stop all work continously for some days? Why didn’t your killings also take a holiday? You don’t know how much sufferings the people underwent and to what extent the studies of our children preparing for the G.C.E (A/L) Examination suffered.
I appeal to you to call off all your notorious activities, now that you have failed in your mission and allow the Tamil People to live in Peace. You have cheated the Tamil people, the youths and the students in particular and also the Government and the International Community including the Norweign facilitators.
You have also destroyed our homes, our health our youths, our children’s Educations our culture and much cherished civilization. You have made all of us paupers. You have taken away our Democratic and Fundamental Rights and eroded into our Human Rights also. You are now trying to establish a totalitarian State. Please pack up and leave with your families and join your children having supper class Education in various countries. Left alone our people can look after themselves. The International Community is there if any protection is needed. But today they need protection only from your cadre. That is why they are moving to the South to live with the Sinhalese and the Muslims. Tamils fleeing to Tamil Nad in India is to avoid going into areas under your control because they don’t want to live under your subjugation.
In conclusion I request you to spare our youths at-least now. Every day not only you take the lives of the Sinhalese soldiers and Police officers who attend only to disputes between civilians, but also take the lives of innocent Tamils Sinhalese and Muslims. You also sacrifice our youths by sending them on various risky errands to many places from where most of them do not return alive. I am not asking you to send your children on such errands because they are dear to you. I am only asking you not to sacrifice the children of poor parents and allow them to study like your children.
Thanking You,
Yours sincerely,
V. Anandasangaree,
President-TULF
