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The way SLA is advancing to capture North may be the reason of Balraj's heart attack. Prabha too will get a heart attack soon.

i appreciate your thinking that you could do something for SL

By Walter Jayawardhana

London, 21 May, (Asiantribune.com): A well-respected Church of England priest and a British citizen told Archbishop Desmond Tutu in a hard hitting letter that it was matter for utmost regret that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) described as the the most evil terrorist organization in the world was possible to secure the Archbishop s apparent support to denigrate Sri Lanka.
Rev. Tony de Alwis of the Church of England Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham replying about Tutu s alleged campaign against the re-election of Sri Lanka to the UN Human Rights Council of the UN told the Archbishop that his action has become a matter of the utmost regret that such an organization has found it possible to secure Your Grace s apparent support in its unrelenting propaganda campaign to denigrate Sri Lanka on the international stage.
Rev. De Alwis, an avowed campaigner against terrorism all over the world said that it had been a significant coup for the terrorists to be enabled to proclaim support for their demented cause from someone of the Archbishop s undoubted stature and moral authority in the world.
So, he wondered in his letter whether Archbishop Tutu received information from independent sources or his sole source is the very active cabal of supporters of this criminal organization, the LTTE, in South Africa. He said the unbalanced and unfair nature of his purported comments point to the latter. If that is the case, Rev. Alwis said, then I wonder whether Your Grace would be open to learning the truth about Sri Lanka s terrorist problem from less biased sources.
Rev. Alwis calling the Archbishop s condemnation of Sri Lanka a mistaken one said he should look beyond propaganda to explore the truth about Sri Lanka.
The following is the full text of his letter: I am a priest in the Church of England Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham, and a British Citizen of Sri Lankan origin. For many years, I have also been a fervent admirer of Your Grace personally, and of your fearless efforts to establish peace and justice in the public life of South Africa - efforts which have brought you world-wide renown, respect and honour. For these reasons, I was deeply distressed to read comments which you are purported to have made regarding the re-election which Sri Lanka is seeking to the UN Human Rights Council.
I understand that your comments were initially reported in the UK Guardian newspaper of 15th May (which I have not seen). However, I have seen them as posted in full on the following internet website the same day: Sri Lanka not fit to be in UN Rights Council- Tutu
As Your Grace will undoubtedly know, this is the website of the Sri Lankan terrorist organization, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ('the LTTE') which is currently proscribed in the UK, the US, the European Union, India, and many other nations for the reason that it is probably 'the most evil terrorist organization in the world' as the FBI described it recently. I therefore find it a matter of the utmost regret that such an organization has found it possible to secure Your Grace's apparent support in its unrelenting propaganda campaign to denigrate Sri Lanka on the international stage. It has, of course, been a significant coup for these terrorists to have been enabled to proclaim support for their demented and criminal cause from someone of your undoubted stature and moral authority in the world. I wonder, therefore, whether your comments about the human rights situation in Sri Lanka stem from advice you have received from any independent sources or whether your sole source is the very active cabal of supporters of this criminal organization, the LTTE, in South Africa? I fear that the surprisingly unbalanced and unfair nature of your purported comments point to the latter possibility. If that is the case, then I wonder whether Your Grace would be open to learning the truth about Sri Lanka's terrorist problem from less biased sources.
Whilst I wait to hear from you in that regard, may I also say this: Your Grace has chaired South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission which seeks to heal the wounds inflicted on your noble land by the apartheid regime. I am sure that you adopted the title 'Truth and Reconciliation' advisedly, for you have implicitly recognized that there can never be effective reconciliation without due regard for the truth about a given situation. If looked at impartially, you will find that something of an identical nature is currently taking place in Sri Lanka Against Herculean odds, Sri Lanka is imploring the world - and eminent persons such as yourself - to look beyond the propaganda to which you have been relentlessly subjected and to acknowledge the two-pronged approach she has borrowed from you.
On the one hand, she is asking for openness from the world to the truth about the nature of the problem with which she is grappling. On the other hand, she is engaged in implementing the structural and organizational changes, which are necessary to create a society reconciled in truth. If I may say so, such a demanding and honestly motivated undertaking deserves Your Grace's understanding and your blessings rather than your mistaken condemnation With your noted thirst for the justice and fair play, I know that Your Grace will not be averse to reconsidering your purported comments. I look forward to hearing from you.

SLDF will eliminate one by one

It will be long mourning period for LTTE terror supporters

Balraj was killed by SLAF MI-24's!

God is dead! (probably from a heart attack too)

Rev. Tony de Alwis