EPDP condemns killing of innocent civilians

COLOMBO: The Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) while condemning the brutal murders of innocent islanders of Vellanai, Puliyankoodal and Allaipitty in the Peninsula has stated that the LTTE has fabricated stories with regard to the incident to implicate the EPDP.

The EPDP statement: The islanders off Jaffna stood against immense sufferings in the past and it was those islands that gave strength to the EPDP. No word could express those painful memories and those reminiscences which were still fresh in the hearts of the islanders; the scars that were left behind remain hard to be erased from their minds.

The EPDP stood by those islanders during those agonising era to date and EPDP lent its hands at time of need and helped wipe out the tears from those weeping souls.

The brutal killings were another cruel act of blood thirsty gun culture which did not discriminate between the young, the old and the infants and the massacre stands to testify that the people who were yearning and aspiring for their political rights have even lost their right to live.

The relationship between the EPDP and the islanders were intertwined and interlinked as that of the nail and flesh. They were shaken and saddened to hear that the people of this beloved land lay in pool of blood.

Those who had no respect for human lives and sought political gain on the death of others may be contended with those butchery acts. It might give political survival to those who shed crocodile tears on those murders and sought the support of local and international community to strengthen their war effort.

The EPDP expressing its stance in the message said that it denounced violence in any form and condemned killings whoever had done it and stood to safeguard the people from the destruction of war, those types of incidents were heart rendering and painful.