LTTE ban timely, but should have been earlier Devananda
Douglas
Social Services and Social Welfare Minister Douglas Devananda said that the ban on the LTTE was timely. But had the Government proscribed it earlier, a number of precious lives could have been saved and large scale destruction of public property averted.
He told The Island that apart from several atrocities committed during the past two decades the LTTE had used 200,000 innocent civilians as human shields and it was an unpardonable crime. The LTTE was proscribed at a time when it was engaged in killing those with alternate ideas. They were people who refused to pay extortion money and did not want to support them, he said.
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