Media Release : Friday, 20 October 2006

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LTTE Tamil Tiger terrorists attack Tsunami ravaged Town of Galle, Sri Lanka

The suicide raid in Sri Lanka by the LTTE Tamil Tiger terrorists killing four and injuring a large number of sailors and civilians in the southern port city of Galle on Wednesday, caused wide spread panic among the civilian population, of this once Tsunami ravaged southern city of Sri Lanka.

The Tamil Tigers terrorists have been terrorising the civilian population of Sri Lanka over the past 30 years in order to carve out a second Tamil national homeland in the North and the East of Sri Lanka. Yesterday's terrorist atrocity will cause havoc to the south of Sri Lanka, an area that was already severely affected by the Asian Tsunami of December 2004 in devastating its economy and the lives of the people who were looking forward to the tourism season. Galle is a picturesque international tourism region and is also the home to the UNESCO World Heritage listed 17 century Dutch ramparts, and an ancient walled city.

The tragedy of Galle was then portrayed around the world's television screens as the town where the passenger buses were floated around in the Tsunami waves, drowning hundreds of innocent schoolchildren. Galle was also the region in which the Tsunami engulfed over 1000 persons in a passenger train. Now it is the turn of the Tamil Tiger terrorists to add to the tragedy of Galle by this cowardly attack on the population of Galle.

These cowardly terrorist attacks are designed to instil fear in the civilian population, and are carried out by young indoctrinated and underage Tamils conscripted to the terrorist cadres. Elements within the international community also tend to support the Tamil Tiger terrorist cause, considering it as a 'freedom struggling' or a 'national liberation struggle'.

In Sri Lanka, there is no further need for any national liberation struggle. It is a free nation where freedoms are already enjoyed by all communities, in the most democratic way. Those who promote transnationalism in minorities would now need to look to the west, and the developed countries with immigrant populations. Similar problems are now raising their ugly head, by the pursuit of overseas national rights by immigrant populations, and the seeking of additional homelands by immigrant populations. In Australia, Prime Minister John Howard has rightfully stated and encouraged the learning of English and the embracing of Australian values to those who have sought to make Australia their new home.

Therefore, those who promote a so called 'national liberation struggle' by the Tamil Tiger terrorists are only promoting a bloodbath of the innocent civilians and the underage Tamil conscripts to terrorism in Sri Lanka. They have now promoted and caused untold misery to Tsunami ravaged Galle struggling to recover from the effects of the devastating Tsunami

Nimal Liyanage

President

SPUR (NSW)  

Friday, 20 October 2006.

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