Stop cheating the Tamils: Pack up and leave the country - Anandasangaree demands Tamilselvan and the LTTE leadership
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2006
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Published on Asian Tribune (http://www.asiantribune.com)
Stop cheating the Tamils: Pack up and leave the country -
Anandasangaree demands Tamilselvan and the LTTE leadership
Created 2006-06-26 02:22
Colombo, 26 June, (Asiantribune.com): Leader of the Tamil United
Liberation Front V. Anandasangaree has openly condemned the political
duplicity of S.P. Tamilselvan, Head of the political Division of the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and other leaders of the terrorists
outfit demanded not to cheat the Tamil people, the youths and the
students. He has openly called Tamilselvan and the LTTE leaders to pack
up and leave the country and join with their children who are in
foreign countries having super class education.V. Anandasangaree:
Please pack up and leave with your families and join your children
having super class Education in various countries. Left alone, our
people can look after themselves. The International Community is there
if any protection is needed.
TULF Leader further pointed out that you sacrifice our youths by
sending them on various risky errands to many places from where most of
them do not return alive. "I am not asking you to send your children
on such errands because they are dear to you. I am only asking you not
to sacrifice the children of poor parents and allow them to study like
your children.
In an open letter written to S.P.Tamilselvan of the LTTE,
Anandasangaree exhorted the LTTE political leader by questioning,
"Are you also trying to confirm my finding that the LTTE leader Mr.
V.Prabaharan has lost control of his cadre and each one of them is now
a leader taking independent decisions?"
Anandasangaree demanded Tamilselvan not to call Tamils anymore as their
people. "They are not your people. Please stop calling them 'our
people'."
Given below is the full text of open letter written on 19 June to
S.P.Tamilselvan by Anandasangaree:
Mr.S.P.Thamilselvan,
Political Leader,
LTTE,
Kilinochchi.
My Dear Thamilselvan,
Stop Your Killings
I strongly condemn the massacre of the 65 innocent civilians and
causing fatal injuries to over 70 others by your cadre at
Keppitigollawa by a clay-more attack on the 15th of this month, within
24 hours of your arrival from Oslo where you went in connection with
the peace talks. You should accept responsibility for this disgraceful
action. No one is going to believe your denial. These types of
incidents bring utter disgrace to a community once held at high esteem
by the International Community.
The attempt of your cadre, obviously on your orders or with your
knowledge, to sink the Navy ship with its 710 soldiers and the crew is
highly deplorable. The brutal killings of the 13 civilians including
women and small children and the total annihilation of a family with
two children at Vankalai are also equally deplorable.
It is not a question as to who is doing all these. I am asking you as
to why are these happening? Don't blame the others for your faults.
Please don't forget that it is your sacred duty to safeguard the
civilians. If you have any regard for the innocent civilians, not a
single life will be lost due to your actions. But while you take the
life of some soldiers you don't fail to take the lives of some
innocent civilians also and up to now you have not even tendered any
apology for any civilian deaths caused by you, but keep on repeating
the same mistake. You cry from the roof tops when some one gets killed
due to the attack of the service personnel. Please remember that we do
not have Gandhians in the armed forces, to ignore what ever happens. It
is your attacks on the army personnel that provoke them to retaliate. I
condemn all killings and do not justify any killing under any
circumstances. I ask you to stop all killings by your cadre and see,
from that moment all other killings also will stop.
The soldiers whom you tried to kill are the very same people who had
been providing security for you, your leaders and your cadre to and
from the Air Port and to the East. In all seriousness I am asking you
as to whether you have the concurrence of your leader for your acts of
this nature and for your notorious statements often ridiculed by the
International Community. Are you also trying to confirm my finding that
the LTTE leader Mr. V.Prabaharan has lost control of his cadre and each
one of them is now a leader taking independent decisions? Good many of
your statements display arrogance and disrespect on your part and does
not give the impression that you are all ready for a settlement. Your
frequent threats of war reminds me of the shepherd boy who used to
shout "wolf'' " wolf" and ultimately paid for his folly with
his entire flock. Similar tune is often heard from some of your local
leaders and your proxy Parliamentarians. It is good for them and for
all of us, if they keep quite. Let no one dream that an organization
like yours can win a war by antagonizing the whole world. Tamils like
all others do not want a war. They are not your people. Please stop
calling them "our people".
The country is well aware of your plans. So the International Community
too. You engage your cadre in very provocative activities to instigate
the Sinhalese to start a backlash. So far you have not succeeded. You
tried your best to start one in Trincomalee hoping that it will spread
to other parts of the country, but to your disappointment whatever
happened was confined to the Trincomalee district. Will anyone with a
bit of commonsense plant a bomb at the market square the day before the
New Year, knowing fully well that a large number of Sinhalese men women
and children will gather at that market square for their New Year
marketing. The events that followed the bomb blast were deplorable.
This was deliberately done by your cadre to provoke the Sinhalese.
Whether they did it on their own or on the instructions from you I do
not known. But the fact remains that a number of Sinhalese and Tamils
lost their lives and Tamil property worth several crores destroyed or
looted due to the foolish act of an individual. I hold you responsible
for this irresponsible act done with the intention of causing harm to a
few hundred thousand Tamils who fled their homes and living peacefully
with Sinhalese and Muslims in the South. Fortunately the people are
aware of your vicious intentions that there is peace in all areas other
than in Trincomalee. Your massacre of 65 civilians at Keppitigollawa is
another attempt to incite the Sinhalese and to provoke a backlash. But
the Sinhalese have successfully defeated your plot once again.
Please note that I strongly condemn violence and do not condone any
killing by anybody. No one has any right to take another person's
life under any circumstances. It is a big joke if you say that there
are a number of front Organizations responsible for some criminal
activities. Please admit that most of these Organizations are
fictitious ones and managed by your cadre. It is you who said that the
civilians are planting clay-more mines which statement was ridiculed by
the International Community. The causalities in most cases happen to be
not only from the army or navy but also innocent civilians. If any
civilian is killed in retaliation you must take the responsibility for
such killings as well. You say that you give training to the University
Students for self-defense. Self-defense against whom? You mix them up
with your cadre who get involved in some incident and escape. It is
some innocent University Students who get killed. You gave compulsory
training to the three wheeler owners and mixed some of your cadre with
them. Some incident takes place somewhere and your cadres responsible
for such incidents vanish from the scene leaving some innocent owners
at the mercy of the forces that in retaliation punished them. I was
shocked to learn that the Students Union had claimed responsibility for
throwing a hand grenade at the army killing and injuring some. I
totally disbelieve the involvement by any student. But if you say so,
then you must take the responsibility for the killings of any such
Students also.
I had said more then once that the International Community cannot be
hood-winked by you. They are well aware of all your activities and are
not prepared to believe bundles of lies unfolded by you.
Everyday you kill somebody from the Armed forces by throwing hand
grenade or by clay-more mines or using your pistol group. A lot of
innocent civilians also get killed in these operations. Yet you keep on
blaming the Sri Lankan Forces for the killings without accepting your
involvements. You stop your killings first and you will see that other
killings all over the country also stop automatically. Whose brain is
behind the call to all sections of the people to stop all work
continuously for some days? Why didn't your killings also take a
holiday? You don't know how many sufferings the people underwent and
to what extent the studies of our children preparing for the G.C.E
(A/L) Examination suffered.
I appeal to you to call off all your notorious activities, now that you
have failed in your mission and allow the Tamil People to live in
Peace. You have cheated the Tamil people, the youths and the students
in particular and also the Government and the International Community
including the Norwegian facilitators.
You have also destroyed our homes, our health our youths, our
children's Educations our culture and much cherished civilization.
You have made all of us paupers. You have taken away our Democratic and
Fundamental Rights and eroded into our Human Rights also. You are now
trying to establish a totalitarian State. Please pack up and leave with
your families and join your children having super class Education in
various countries. Left alone, our people can look after themselves.
The International Community is there if any protection is needed. But
today they need protection only from your cadre. That is why they are
moving to the South to live with the Sinhalese and the Muslims. Tamils
fleeing to Tamil Nadu in India is to avoid going into areas under your
control because they don't want to live under your subjugation.
In conclusion I request you to spare our youths at-least now. Every day
not only you take the lives of the Sinhalese soldiers and Police
officers who attend only to disputes between civilians, but also take
the lives of innocent Tamils Sinhalese and Muslims. You also sacrifice
our youths by sending them on various risky errands to many places from
where most of them do not return alive. I am not asking you to send
your children on such errands because they are dear to you. I am only
asking you not to sacrifice the children of poor parents and allow them
to study like your children.
Thanking You,
Yours sincerely,
V. Anandasangaree,
President-TULF
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