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Civilian safety takes priority - President
Tuesday, 20 June 2006 - 2:38 PM SL Time
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In the aftermath of a weekend of unprecedented violence that killed nearly fifty people, President Mahinda Rajapaksa summoned an emergency meeting of the National Security Council on Sunday night to discuss the safety of civilians especially in the northeast.
At the meeting that went on till late night at Temple Trees, the President expressed concern over the deteriorating security situation in the North East and discussed possible action with the commanders and top officers of the security forces.
President Rajapaksa instructed that home guards deployed in the North East should be strictly for security purposes and the police should not engage them in other activities.
It was agreed to clear jungle patches especially in areas such as Padaviya where they pose a threat to the security of the civilians.
It was also agreed to clear scattered jungle patches in other areas as well and to create buffer zones in a bid to intensify security for the people.
The government meanwhile yesterday appealed to the LTTE to resume stalled peace talks before the country descends into full-scale war.
A statement from the government Peace Secretariat, which oversees the peace process, said it wants to ``engage the LTTE in talks so as to address the root causes of the conflict that may have contributed to it to take to arms and the path of terrorism.
Meanwhile, the LTTE said yesterday it would resort to any strategy -- including suicide bombers -- if all-out civil war resumes and that the effects would be felt across the island.
`If the government, instead of bringing an end to the war, forces another brutal war on the Tamils then the effects of that war will be felt throughout the island,` LTTE political wing leader S.P Thamilselvan told Reuters in an email interview.
`If the government unleashes another brutal ethnic war on Tamils, then the Tamils will not hesitate to use any strategy to defend themselves,` he added, when asked if the LTTE would resort to feared Black Tiger suicide bombers.
`If the occupying military will vacate (Tamil areas) and our people are able to live in an environment of normalcy and freedom like other people, then neither we nor our people have any need to engage in military clashes,` Mr. Thamilselvan said.
`Only if the (majority) Sinhala side understands this and takes steps in accordance with this understanding, there will be peace in this island,` he added.
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velu
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20 Jun 2006 13:52:22 GMT Report for Abuse
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| And i care about tamil civilians !! even though i am the biggest killer of tamil civilians, muslims are extinct in my area and so will be the rest ! thumbs up to terror expansion, our herritage; tamil expansion ! rama to ellalas, madrasis to my organization, we are here to extinct the natives, ofcourse like madrasis we will expand and diversify, perhaps globalize our herritage like we've done before ! |
varakuna
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20 Jun 2006 20:25:51 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sear Velu...you are correct..you did killing, rapes,kasippu
dealing and chase by tamil people,even your friend paranthan rajan slap on your face by his sapple,you know
the reason,i dont like to write here,if you want more about
yourself? |
velu
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20 Jun 2006 22:25:29 GMT Report for Abuse
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Yes, yes, sexual desire and drinking alcohol cannot be the right of just one race! one can also learn other forms of abusing women and children from me !
my latest publication: THE ART OF PROMOTING SUICIDE AND MURDER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN. |
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20 Jun 2006 22:43:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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Tigress19,
Of course it is the Sinhala civilians. What else you expect out of a Sinhala Government, sinhala military and a Sinhala president?
Regarding the Tamils he is already 'taking care of them very well in real style typical of mother lanka', so you don't worry about the Tamils. |
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20 Jun 2006 23:23:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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| SL Navy desecrated island's biggest church - Bishop TamilNet, June 20, 2006 18:03 GMT The biggest church in Sri Lanka ?has been desecrated by innocent blood being shed in it by unjust aggressors, the Sri Lanka Navy,? Bishop of Mannar, Rt. Rev. Dr. Rayappu Joseph, protested this week in a letter to the Vatican, through the Apostolic Nuncio to the island. ?Today I buried the six civilians murdered by the Navy at Pesalai yesterday,? the outraged Bishop wrote Sunday. The local people are ?mortally afraid of the Navy? and when they met the local Navy commander, 7,000 people of Pesalai begged to be allowed to flee to India or LTTE-controlled Vanni, he said. One of the victims, Kodalingham Linganathan, 20,
Dead bodies of civilian victims in Mannar hospital mortuary
In his lengthy letter to the Holy See setting out an eyewitness-based account of the navy's rampage through the coastal village, Bishop Joseph described the cold-blooded summary execution of five fishermen unfortunate enough to be outside working on their boats as vengeful navy personnel stormed through the village. He also described how the Church of Our Lady of Victory at Pesalai was surrounded by the navy personnel who then fired through holes in the main doors, wounding many people, and then forced open a window and tossed two grenades in, ?resulting in one lady's head being blown off in the church and several others sustaining injuries, some serious.? Amongst the dead were three Catholics, including the 75-year old woman, two Hindus and a Muslim, he said. The Bishop complained how the area commander of the Sri Lanka Army in Mannar had subsequently refused permission for him to go to Pesalai to attend to the casualties and how ?after much efforts, the Divisional Secretary and myself were able to send the Mannar Police with Ambulances to bring the seriously wounded to the Mannar Hospital.? He protested also that ?military sources had tried to spread false news stating that there had been an attack by the LTTE on land at Pesalai on the Police and the Navy had to open fire.? |
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