10/29/2007

TULF President V. Anandasangaree while strongly condemning the LTTE terrorist attack on Anuradhapura last Monday, urged LTTE leader V. Prabakaran to stop his senseless murders of innocent people and stop the sacrificing of innocent children and agree for talks accepting a reasonable solution.

Anandasangarees letter states:

"I very strongly condemn you for what you have done at Anuradhapura last Monday. It is not a matter for anyone to rejoice at. Every right-thinking person will curse you for this ruthless act. However there are some people who are comfortably settled in safe places with their families, glorifying you.

What have you done, for anyone to give credit to you? In this operation you had been the cause for the death of 35 people, 14 from the Air Force who come from poor Sinhalese families, joined the Air force to earn a living.

The remaining 21 belong to the suicide cadre of your Black Tigers all of whom were compulsorily recruited and brain-washed by you. They too belong to poor families with obligations to lookafter their respective families.

I would have hailed you as a brave man if all the 22 persons in the photograph published in the local papers with you in the centre, had died. But you have regrettably sacrificed all the 21 innocent children of poor parents, who are appearing with you in that photograph.

"There is a Tamil proverb very well known to you, suit you well. Giving you advice is like "Blowing a conch into the ears of a deaf person". However much I tell you, you would not listen. You are fully aware that Tamil Eelam is not achievable, and if achieved you cannot hold it even for a day.

"The International Community will not allow it. Then what is the purpose in sacrificing human lives for a cause which you will not achieve and could not achieve during the last quarter of a century.

After being the cause for the loss of 70-80 thousand lives, creating thousands of widows, orphans, disabled and destroying billions worth of property, you are now back to square one.

"You have completely lost the Eastern Province. You will also lose the North but certainly after a prolonged fight, not to win Tamil Eelam, but to safeguard, your prestige, the cost of which will be total annihilation of the Tamils in the North. Neither the Tamil Community nor the International Community will ever appreciate or approve these methods. Please give serious thought to my suggestion.

"Even now it is not too late. Agree for talks accepting a reasonable solution like the Indian Model or any other model you propose. Whatever solution we arrive at, cannot be in instalments but one found without giving room for further agitation in the future.

"If you can undertake foolish operations of this nature why can't you help to trace the random killings, abductions and extortions taking place everyday. The President of the Thenmarachchi M.P.C.S. Union had been chopped to death recently. Why don't you help to detect one such abduction or killing and prove your innocence of any involvement in these crimes.

"Please note that I Strongly condemn every killing and do not condone any killing for any reason. You stop your killing in any form and see other killings stopping automatically."

Courtesy - Daily News