Pregnant suicide bomber - questions ethics and morale of LTTE

DASTARDLY: We are deeply concerned about this recent turn of events where the degradation of life has taken on deplorable new depths.

All human societies across time and cultures share some cherished values.

Caring for the very young and the future generations have always been a priority. The use of a pregnant woman to carry out the recent suicide attack leads one to seriously question the ethical and moral basis of the separatist struggle of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

The utter disregard to human life has taken on new heights in this recent act of violence. How can any society liberate itself when it fails to protect the most vulnerable of our society?

Using child soldiers on a routine basis, ethnic cleansing of Muslim minorities in Tamil areas, mass killings of all suspected political dissidents are some of the blatant human rights violations committed by the LTTE in the name of liberation.

The human rights community should fully investigate the recent suicide killing by the pregnant woman. Was she made to get pregnant for this covert operation?

Or, was she chosen for this mission as a punishment for getting pregnant by the LTTE which views relationships between men and women within its organization as deplorable? Or, even worse, did she get pregnant by one of her superiors and was gotten rid of in this manner?

The true situation should be brought to light and the gender violence implicit in this act should be exposed and the people responsible for this cowardly act should be shamed.

These dastardly acts should be seen as a rejection of all international conventions of basic human rights and decency. International community should close ranks and condemn these senseless and brutal acts of violence perpetrated by the LTTE.

- Rudramoorthy