ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE IN THE NORTH AND THE EAST.
I strongly condemn the brutal killings of men, women and children numbering 12 in Allaipiddy and Velanai. The Government should go all out to trace these cruel men who have no place in the society and expose them to the world. Saturday the 13th was a wesak day very holy to the Buddhist and also to the Hindus being Chitra Pawrami day.
The situation in the North and the East are deteriorating day by day. Without knowing the proper identity of the assailants I have no right to specifically accuse anybody but it is the Government’s duty to go all out to prevent such incidents taking place in the future, apart from identifying the culprits and bringing them to book.
Incidents of clay-more mine attacks, throwing hand grenades at checkpoints and shooting down or injuring soldiers at Check Post are very frequent occurrences in the North and East and should be condemned as equally barbaric acts. Almost in all such incidents innocent civilians also either get killed or injured.
I strongly condemn the killing of six innocent students in Trincomalee as brutal. All of them were Tamils. On what basis the death of three innocent civilians and an auto-driver killed in a clay-more attack become justifiable. They are also Tamils. The T.N.A. Members of Parliament did not open their mouths in respect of these death. Six Sinhalese youths for no fault of theirs were brutally killed at Komarankadawala. Whether it was a retaliatory act or not is not my question. Who did it and why did the T.N.A. Members remain silent?. What is the so called People’s Front doing?. Why don’t they condemn every killing. Who are these killers and who gives them authority to kill?. Are they keeping silent because all these killings are done by the infuriated civilians as claimed by Mr.S.P.Tamilchelvan.
The Parliamentarians and the Peoples Front have proved beyond doubt that they are there only to carry out the orders of the L.T.T.E. I firmly say “Let the L.T.T.E. stop their killings whether it is by the pistol group or by clay-more mine and hand-grenades, killings will automatically stop in all parts of the country.
I appeal to the Tamil Print Media that by publishing demeaning Cartoons and articles about me no one is going to gain anything. I have a duty by my people and I am doing it. But some one misuse the freedom of the press. With all respect to decent Journalists,. I am only sorry to say that a Cartoon appeared in a Local paper depicting me as a dog with a bone, clearly shows that Journalism in Sri Lanka has gone to the dogs.
V.Anandasangaree,
President-T.U.L.F.
