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MODERATE TAMIL POLITICAL LEADER SAYS THE LTTE
SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF THE TAMIL PARLIAMENTARIAN
(By Walter Jayawardhana)
Tamil United Liberation Front leader V. Ananda
Sangaree, the moderate political leader of the Tamils alleged that the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE) should be held responsible for the
deaths of Sri Lankan parliamentarian K. Sivanesan and his driver K.
Maheswararajah who died in a a road side explosion inside the rebel held
territory in Wanni.
Criticizing the accusation of the Tamil
National Alliance (TNA) the proxy party of the LTTE that a Deep Penetrating
Unit of the Sri Lanka Army killed the parliamentarian inside the Tiger held
territory Ananda Sangaree said, I do not want the TNA Members of Parliament to
fool everybody. They had fooled the Tamil People long enough and they cant
continue to do so.
This incident had taken place, said Sangaree,
about 2 miles from Mankulam on the A9 road and about 190 miles from Colombo.
Of this 190 miles about 170 miles fall within the Government controlled areas
and therefore under the armys control. No man with any sense will say that the
penetrating unit went into the LTTE held areas to a distance of about 20 miles
from the defense line to plant the claymore mine, when they had 170 miles of
the highway under their command. It is by this type of silly accusations that
the LTTE and the TNA Members had lost their credibility. No one believes their
stories because their political honesty is questionable.
The following is the full text issued by the
President of the TULF: I very strongly condemn the most brutal manner in which
Mr. K. Sivanesan Member of Parliament for the Jaffna Electoral District and
his Driver Mr. Maheswararajah, were killed. I express my deepest sympathies to
the wives and children of these unfortunate victims and to their friends and
relations. I am one who always pray that even my worst enemy should not face
death in this manner and I had been always condemning death by violence.
Neither I condone such killings nor rejoice at it.
This unfortunate incident had taken place on
Thursday afternoon and a section of the Tamil Print Media irresponsibly
carried this news the following day morning accusing the Government Forces of
using their penetrating unit to target the M.P. with a claymore mine. Even the
TNA Members of Parliament in their statement had recklessly charged that the
Government should take full responsibility for this incident.
I do not hold a brief to anybody. But I do not
want the TNA Members of Parliament to fool everybody. They had fooled the
Tamil People long enough and they cant continue to do so. The said Member had
attended Parliament on Wednesday the 5th and left for Mallavi in
Vanni through Mankulam. This incident had taken place about 2 miles from
Mankulam on the A9 road and about 190 miles from Colombo. Of this 190 miles
about 170 miles fall within the Government controlled areas and therefore
under the armys control. No man with any sense will say that the penetrating
unit went into the LTTE held areas to a distance of about 20 miles from the
defense line to plant the claymore mine, when they had 170 miles of the
highway under their command. It is by this type of silly accusations that the
LTTE and the TNA Members had lost their credibility. No one believes their
stories because their political honesty is questionable.
I am very deeply concerned about the safety of
the innocent civilians in the LTTE held areas. The entire Kilinochchi
Electorate and portions of Mullaitivu Electorate in the Vanni were represented
by me in Parliament. The LTTE and the TNA Members are trying to bury a big
pumpkin in a plate of rice as a Tamil proverb goes. Obviously the LTTE is
trying to make the International Community believe their story and the TNA is
supporting it. The claymore mine at Kanagarayankulam had really been planted
by the LTTE cadres itself targeting some of their leaders. For whom it was
targeted one will never know but certainly not targeting any Member of
Parliament.
If we assume that the penetrating Unit of the
Army did it, then no LTTE leader or any Member of Parliament is safe in the
Vanni, a strong hold of the LTTE. It is very clear now that the LTTEs net work
of intelligence had completely broken down and have made their position most
insecure in the areas under their control, leaving the only option for them to
surrender honourably and save the lives of children without sacrificing more
and more innocent children of poor parents recruited compulsorily and sent to
the battle front with just 2 3 weeks training.
The whole world is weeping for Mr. Sivanesan and
condemning his killing. I too am weeping for Sivanesan and condemning his
killing but not shedding crocodile tears like the TNA Members who as claimed
by many were never elected at a free and fair election but handpicked by the
LTTE and sent to Parliament through a defunct political party, the Federal
Party, as their proxies. When one of the prospective candidates was killed
just a couple of days before nomination they kept quiet without condemning the
LTTE. Mr. Kingsly Rajanayagam who was taken under threat by another Member of
Parliament to hand over his resignation from Membership of Parliament was
assassinated by the LTTE soon after. Then too the TNA kept mum. Every day some
service personnel along with some civilian get killed by land mines and
claymore mines planted by the LTTE cadre targeting the Forces. No one weeps
for them or condemn the LTTE for causing the deaths of innocent civilians.
Even yesterday a soldier died in a claymore mine attack in the South and some
more injured. Neither the TNA nor the Tamil media had condemned it even after
this incident.
I plead with the LTTE to stop planting claymore
mines any more. The LTTE Leaders honouring the dead with titles like Great-man
or Mamanithan will not give satisfaction to the victims kith and kin because
they know that it is real mockery and will never bring the dead back to life.
At this stage I want the TNA to tell the world,
the country and the Tamil People in particular, whether they accept a
statement made by one of its Members in Parliament during the budget debate on
14.11.2007 that, IT IS FOOLISH FOR ANY ONE TO THINK THAT THE LTTE, THE TAMIL
PEOPLE AND THE TNA ARE DIFFERENT DENIAL OR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS CLAIM IS VERY
RELEVANT AND APPROPRIATE AT THIS JUNCTURE FOR THE PEOPLE TO PASS THEIR
JUDGMENT.
Even now it is not late for the LTTE to call for
a ceasefire, if necessary even unilaterally, and go for talks with the
Government, for which all including the International Community will give full
backing (EOM).
Monday, 10 March 2008.
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