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The LTTE Terrorists Raise Alarm While Descecrating A Holy Catholic Shrine And Hijacking Its Venerated Statue !

In Retrospect -By Sarath Kumara For LankaWeb - April 9th 2008

With nowhere to run the Tamil Tiger terrorists have had the affront to approach Norway, no more a peace-broker than Machiavelli and Mata Hari combined towards the interpretation ~ to pressure Sri Lanka's government to stop a military offensive in the Island's North where they are presently being decimated and battered by the Armed Forces.

Suddenly and most curiously the excuse seems to be that a venerated Catholic Church was at risk and the terrorists seem to have either become a spiritual group overnight or chosen this approach as their latest ploy towards saving their hides which seems the more plausible explanation.

They seem to have conveniently forgotten their own cowardly attacks! the reals ones! on Madhu Church the Church under reference as well as attacks on other places of religious worship where they showed neither reservation nor respect to human life or venerated buildings as one remembers the horrendous attacks on the Temple of the Tooth, the Sacred Bo Tree, Muslim shrines with worshippers in them and Buddhist Temples around the country but in their desperation now seem to be clutching at any straw available towards their survival.

And whom have they picked towards mediating on their behalf towards their preservation? none other than the two faced, onboxious and shallow minded playboy who once enjoyed a blissful and serendipitous vacation in Sri Lanka at the taxpayer's expense? none other than Norway's International Development Minister, Erik Solheim, who was also one of the chief mediators involved in the failed peace efforts, to pressure Colombo to halt the offensive.

Someone who virtually scuttled off with no fanfair and the disdain of the Sinhala Nation with his transparencies exposed as two faced and pro LTTE con artist. Consequent to this it is not at all surprising that the LTTE have once again reached out to him to be their saviour although it should be of no consequence towards any change in direction of Government policy to take out the LTTE once and for all and perhaps it is this stark reality facing the Tigers that has prompted them to supplicate themselves in front of Norway towards a salvation they hardly deserve!

In the meantime Eric Solheim is reportedly taking a refresher course in how to pretend being a spiritually motivated person as preparation towards meeting LTTE needs and demands but involving spirits of a different variety rather than those associated with religious worship where it might take great inebriation for him to muster courage to ever step on Sri Lankan soil again perhaps at the risk of a figurative lynching or a cricket bat to his head by those who truly know him for what he represents! A worthlkess despot who nearly prompted the Government of Sri lanka towards playing into the hands of the LTTE terrorists! A truism at times averse to the vision and perception in the eyes of a few myopic government sources amazingly who still seem to have faith in his theatrics and souped up sanctimony which at times even tends to fool some of the Buddhist hierarchy! Only in Sri Lanka did someone say?

It even seems laughable that the LTTE entreaty to Norway and Solheimg has been worded to the effect that"We would like to place a request through you ... to the Norwegian government to take steps to immediately end the military assault of the holy Madhu shrine," the LTTE's political wing leader, B. Nadesan, wrote to Solheim where he seems to have overlooked the fact that just weeks ago the terrorists took shelter behind the sanctity of the venerated Madhu Shrine whilst intimidating worshippers! Also deserving of honorable mention to this scenario is the report that the Incumbent Catholic Priests were in collusion with them.

This can be construed on the simple basis that the most important artifact the church has been renowned for ~ namely the sacred statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary has now been hijacked and spirited away into the jungles of the Wanni and could this be an indication towards the previous tongue in cheek reference that the terrorists have now gone spiritual and need the Statue towards their own protection or is it simply their playing into the mindset of their critics and those who frown on them further, the dumbos they really are! This time through their own ignorances and apathies as it is more than likely to unleash a backlash of anger from all Catholics in Sri Lanka and around the world once they realise what the terrorists are aiming at and the bait being used towards misleading their audiences! The garnering of world sympathies through falsifying the reality that the Government was indeed protecting the Madhu Church and its Holy Statue before it was "spirited ' away and that it was the Government resourcefulness which motivated the terrorists to hijack it! Just yesterday the terrorists have bombed the Madhu Church to make it look like a Government led attack while also proclaiming it falsely to the world through their news engines and spokespersons !

There is no doubt that Government forces backed by artillery are pushing into territory held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the Wanni region, and the Roman Catholic church of Madhu is indeed in the line of fire although great care has been taken to avoid any destruction to the Church, its contents and incumbents with great emphasis towards securing the most important feature of the Shrine the Statue of the Virgin Mary.

That it is now being held for ransom by the terrorists after first using it as a screen towards their safety and are now using it as a means to further perpetrate their lies and innuendo towards swaying world and national opinion portraying it is a Government orchestrated incident is the furthest from the truth!They are also reported to have attacked the church today with the intention of destroying it and blaming the Government Forces for the attrocity

The church is located within Mannar district, which has seen heavy fighting in recent months.Defence Ministry reports indicate security forces having killed 14 rebels in fresh fighting recently.The number of security personnel killed during the same period numbers 156, according to the ministry reports and the latest casualties figures of the official rebel death toll this year to 2,714.

Sri Lanka's military has denied engaging in operations in the Madhu Church area or at least limiting it to a manner which minimises risk to the Church.Government Security Forces have maintained however that they want to push into the Wanni Region where the guerrillas claim to maintain a de facto mini state also a concocted myth according to analysts as the so called 'de facto state' was disrupted, laid waste and made redundant some time ago in conjunction with those in the East where the so called 'de facto state' can now only be imagined as the dark recesses of the jungles and of course the locations of the Prabhakaran bunkers which will soon be destroyed and their vermin flushed out which is what the LTTE fuss is all about!.

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