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We ask the International Community to help us fight the terrorists and at the same time the Government says it is heartened by Puleedevans statement. Government policy on terrorism seems wishy-washy

By Charles Perera

“It is heartening and encouraging that media reports have cited the Secretary-General of the LTTE’s Peace Secretariat Mr. Puleedevan as saying that the LTTE stands committed to observing the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) as well as taking forward the peace process” statement by the Government Peace Secretariat(Colombo Page).

What is there so heartening about the terrorist Puleedevan’s statement ? It is not worth the paper on which it is written. They have said it so many times that those words really have no meaning. And they have the crass to ask the SLMM to drop its members from Sweden , Denmark and Finland in four weeks. They really take themselves for a government and, our government meek and shameless makes a very big issue of Puleedevan’s statement.

Next the LTTE terrorist will ask for the meeting to be held in Oslo. And our government seemingly not learning any lessons from previous experiences, will send a delegation led by a Cabinet Minister this time, to please the all mighty LTTE terrorists. The LTTE is really taking our government for a set of nin-compoops. It is the tiger terrorists who call the tune now !!!

In the mean time the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka had said in India “We are committed to a political solution and want to go in for devolution of powers based on discussions at the all party conference (in Sri Lanka), ” It may be a fact that we are committed to political solution, but there have to be two parties to agree on it, therefore it is relevant to ask whether the LTTE terrorists are that keen for a political solution. For all what we know from their pranks up to now, they want the “pound” of flesh nothing less nothing more ,and that is to carve out their “home land”.

It is this wishy-washy policy of the government that has made the LTTE terrorists think no end of themselves. It is time that they look at thinks differently, looking at things from the correct side of the binoculars. It is because of this “unsure policy of the government” that the International Community would not take a determined stand against the LTTE terrorists of Sri Lanka.

How can we expect the International Community to be stern and take a decisive move to ask the terrorists to lay down their arms and follow the democratic system or suffer the consequence of a massive armed attack against them, if our government does not know where they stand ?

The President Bush in Europe to-day reiterated his stand vis-a-vis the terrorists, by saying that he is determined to fight terrorism to make the world a peaceful place for all. In the circumstances one would like to know whether or not the government of Sri Lanka is barking up the wrong tree in asking the International Community to help fight terrorism in Sri Lanka when they still seem to think that the terrorist are civilized enough to sit round a table and discuss peace?

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