Enslaved
Tamil Civilians of the Wanni need to be Urgently Liberated from their
Tamil Tiger Terrorist Tormentors
SRI
LANKA UNITED NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA Box 55292m 300 Borough Drive,
Toronto, Ontario M1W 3L9 Canada
There is much talk of human rights and unsubstantiated accusations
against Sri Lanka by the very perpetrators of the rights violations
within the ranks of the internationally designated terrorist group known
as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and their supporters
within the Tamil Diaspora and their affiliated NGO clique. The supporters
of the LTTE in Canada and other western countries are feverishly organizing
vigils, seminars, forums in a propaganda blitz to mislead the public
who are unfamiliar with the issues and ground situation in Sri Lanka.
The Tamil Tigers who have engaged in ethnic cleansing, and known to
forcibly recruit underage children (5800 children so abducted and conscripted
according to UNICEF since February 2002) who are brainwashed to become
suicide bombers are being held up as liberators and champions of Tamil
rights. The LTTE maintains a special brigade of Suicide Bombers known
as BLACK TIGERS and are credited with having carried out over 265 suicide
bomb attacks mainly against civilian targets. The Tamil Tigers have
been banned as a terrorist group by nearly 40 countries including the
USA, UK, India, Canada, and the EU. Federal Bureau of Investigations
(FBI) says that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is the most
dangerous and deadly extremist organization in the world. Tamil Tigers
ruthless tactics have inspired terrorist networks worldwide, including
al Qaeda in Iraq. http://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan08/tamil_tigers011008.html
These so called Tamil Liberators are accused of having killed the most
number of Tamils including almost 40 Tamil leaders in their quest to
claim the dubious title of the 'sole representative' of the Tamil community.
They have killed several thousand Sinhalese and Muslims civilians in
order to drive them out of the region sought by them, in their attempt
to carve out a mono-ethnic, mono-political, separate state exclusively
for Tamils in the north and east of Sri Lanka to be dominated by the
LTTE. Internecine rivalry between militant Tamil groups and splintered
units have resulted in innumerable human rights violations even spilling
over from the contested regions to the capital city of Colombo, making
it extremely difficult for the authorities to uphold the law.
Presently, the LTTE, their supporters in the diaspora and the pro-LTTE
NGO circuit are making a hue and cry about the suffering of the civilians
that have been displaced from the Mannar, Vavunia, Killinochchi and
Mullaitivu districts due to the military operations undertaken by the
Sri Lankan Security Forces to retaliate against the Tamil Tigers that
launched their so called final war of separation as far back as December
2005, where they carried out unprovoked attacks against the armed forces
in extreme violation of the existing ceasefire which they violated from
the outset, and thereafter cut off water to 30,000 farming families
in the Mavilaru area. The LTTE which was defeated and driven out of
the eastern province in 2006, are today facing elimination from the
rest of the usurped territory in the north as the government forces
keep advancing re-taking territory and extending the writ of the lawful
state throughout the island.
Whom are these non-government organizations, financiers and supporters
of the LTTE trying to fool? They claim that the lives of the displaced
Tamil civilians in the Wanni are endangered as the various international
and local relief agencies were asked by the government authorities to
move from the LTTE's administrative headquarters in Killinochchi 30
kilometers further south to Vavunia, where special facilities have been
established to receive the displaced civilians and take care of their
needs. The reason for the request to move was because the theatre of
military action was fast approaching Killinochchi, thereby making it
difficult for the authorities to guarantee the safety of their personnel
and other assets. It has also been revealed that 40 vehicles including
heavy equipment belonging to Norwegian People's Aid had been removed
by the LTTE whilst other material intended for distribution to civilians
by INGO have been found in the possession of the terrorists by the advancing
security forces. This move has not in anyway affected the shipment of
food, medicine and other essentials to the displaced civilians, as adequate
supplies are being sent in convoys of trucks numbering from 50-100 vehicles
once or twice each week, to be distributed by government agents under
the supervision of representatives of the ICRC and World Food Program
that accompany the convoys.
The fact is that the LTTE is preventing the displaced civilians from
moving to safety in Vavunia via the special security corridor, as they
want to use the IDPs as a human shield in the ongoing battles with the
government forces in order to create a possible disaster. Furthermore,
it would be seen from related news reports annexed hereto, that the
LTTE has launched artillery and mortar strikes on the food convoys,
and even attempted to ram two merchant vessels carrying food and essentials
to the civilian population estimated around 400,000 in the Jaffna peninsula
with explosives laden Sea Tiger Suicide Craft. The Tamil Tigers not
only require the civilians to undergo forced military training and contribute
their labour in digging defensive trenches and building earthen dams,
they are also required to release one or two family members to join
their fighting ranks to replace their depleting numbers. The LTTE which
operated a so called defacto state in the Wanni during the past 20 years
have only extorted and exploited the civilians at the point of a gun
and done nothing for their welfare. The LTTE has robbed the food and
essentials shipped by the government for the sustenance of the civilians,
taken priority use of medical supplies, and vandalized the medical centres,
schools and other public facilities in the area prior to eviction by
the security forces. The only construction done by the LTTE are heavily
fortified concrete bunkers, and well designed cemeteries with neatly
constructed tombs to bury the brainwashed men and women called to sacrifice
their life for an untainable cause that they have fought for the past
32 years costing nearly 70,000 lives and destruction of an immeasurable
amount of valuable property. It was the Government of Sri Lanka which
continued to supply food, medicine and other essentials to the resident
population in the Wanni (including the Tamil Tiger Terrorists), maintained
the schools, hospitals and other government services, paid salaries,
pensions and all other allowances running into Billions of Rupees, whilst
the Tigers collected arms and ammunition and forcibly conscripted people
into their fighting ranks to attack the state authorities and people
of Sri Lanka.
The Tamil Tigers who have already lost a majority of their cadres in
the recent battles have since been evicted from over 70 percent of the
territory that they had usurped, and have withdrawn from Mannar and
Vavunia districts to the remaining pices of territory in the Killinochchi
and Mullaitivu districts. The megalomaniacal terrorist leader, Velupillai
Prabhakaran, who is wanted by INTERPOL, and the Government of India
for the killing of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and Sri Lanka,
for numerous atrocities including the killing of former President Premadasa,
who was dreaming of becoming the Emperor of the Mythical State Tamil
Eelam and the 80 million Tamils spread across the globe including 61
million in Tamilnadu, South India, will soon be caught in his hole in
the Mullaitivu jungles or make a fast exit by biting into the Cyanide
Capsule around his neck, as otherwise he will be called on to answer
for the countless crimes for which he is responsible. Only alternative,
would be fpr him to lay down their arms and surrender himself and his
devilish forces, and prevent further bloodshed, as the people of Sri
Lanka cannot be fooled into ceasefires and meaningless talks that are
played out by the LTTE to buy time to rebuild his evil forces and resume
hostilities.
Yours very truly,
Mahinda Gunasekera
Honorary President
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