Media Release

Tuesday, 02 November 2004

A Swiss civilian shot dead, another victim of the kill, kill and kill policy of the Tamil Tiger Terrorists

The members of the international community led by the facilitator are patting themselves with satisfaction as major confrontations between the Sri Lanka defence services and the LTTE have been averted. However, the LTTE's record of killing of civilians, both political opponents and peace loving citizens who refuse to carry out their orders, is a grim story of a helpless section of the ordinary people. They are gridlocked by the LTTE, the most ruthless terrorist out fit in the world. They are ignored by the international community and the human rights organizations while the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission and the Government of Sri Lanka have been rendered impotent.

The European countries including Switzerland openly accommodate the LTTE cadres and the LTTE’s many front organizations in their countries violating UN Security Council resolution 1373 on funding of terrorism. These countries provide shelter, hold conferences shamelessly with the LTTE members and knowingly allow the LTTE to collect funds to procure arms to perpetuate the misery of Sri Lankans.

Evidently, the LTTE is not willing to limit that misery to Sri Lankans only. Their latest victim is a Swiss national, Mr. Hans Ulrich Hurpos, and he has been killed for not acceding to LTTE's demands to pay a ransom. Mr. Hurpos is the 181st civilian to be killed since the Norwegian facilitated peace process came into effect. The Swiss Government and the EU should realize that the chickens have come to roost. It is the most appropriate time, even belatedly, to take stock of the atrocities committed by the Tamil Tigers and the consequences of these dastardly acts on the civilians, including the Tamils who oppose the LTTE within or outside Sri Lanka.

The LTTE's kill-kill program or the only policy familiar to its' chief Prabhakaran, a criminal wanted by the Interpol , Indian and Sri Lankan courts, if not effectively understood and destroyed by the West , many unarmed civilians will  be called upon to lay down their lives while 'the peace in Sri Lanka' is toasted in the glittering cities of Europe. In addition to the LTTE chief Prabhakaran, six other senior members of the LTTE including its Intelligence Chief, Pottu Amman, are fugitives wanted by the INTERPOL.

We ask again from the facilitator Norway and the EU who are acting as the god-fathers of the LTTE, when will you’ll call a terrorist a terrorist, when will you’ll strictly enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1373 in relation to the LTTE and when will you’ll stop differentiating between terrorists who attack you’ll and terrorists who conduct terrorism against lesser developed countries like Sri Lanka?

Dr D Jayasuriya

President

Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights in Sri Lanka (SPUR)

Reg No. A 003 07777 M

PO Box 4066

Mulgrave    VIC 3170

Australia

 

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