Sri Lanka Tamil party Leader urges international community to take action against LTTE

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  “The time has come for the international community to cry halt to the atrocities of the LTTE..." - TULF Leader

Aug 20, Colombo: The next in-line in the LTTE’s assassination list, Leader of TULF, V. Anandasangaree while claiming that LTTE was virtually controlling both the government areas and its own territory urged the international community to play a major role in the eradication of terrorism and refuse to submit to the threats of terrorist groups.

Calling on world leaders to take united action against Sri Lanka’s Tigers he said “Ceasefire Agreement should be replaced with a new one considering the fact that violations have now exceeded 2500 in number. The LTTE was virtually controlling both the government areas and its own territory although the area behind its own iron curtain was out of bounds to everybody, including the facilitators.”

Mr. Anandasangaree, in a letter to the leaders of several countries and copied to President Chandrika Kumaratunga said, despite the lull following the signing of the truce agreement, hardly a day passed without at least one political opponent or an officer of the intelligence unit getting killed.

Citing the murder of SSP Charles Wijewardena in Jaffna last week, Mr. Anandasangaree said although the attack was blamed on a mob it was obvious the LTTE had hacked the officer to death and thrown away the body.
“There had never been a single murder as brutal as this in Jaffna that can be cited as one parallel to this,” the TULF President’s letter said. According to Mr. Anandasangaree, the LTTE encouraged by the freedom it has enjoyed during the period of the ceasefire agreement has been taking the law into its own hands and acting unilaterally.

“It appears as if the LTTE leader has lost control of his cadres. They create trouble and take cover behind ordinary civilians who are generally innocent and god-fearing,” the letter said.
“The time has come for the international community to cry halt to the atrocities of the LTTE which should now agree to release all the prisoners in their custody, stop conscriptions, extortions, killing of rival groups and close down all their torture camps, dark room detention camps and also allow democracy to prevail in all areas under its control,” the hard-hitting missive says. The TULF President said the LTTE must agree or must be compelled to agree by the united action of the international community to lay down arms and accept federalism as a solution to the country’s ethnic problem.