LTTE must stop killings - TULF President

COLOMBO: Let the LTTE stop their killings whether it is by the pistol group or by claymore mines and hand-grenades. Then the killings will automatically stop in all parts of the country states Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) President V. Anandasangaree in a statement condemning the violence in the North and East.

The statement released by Anandasangaree:-

"I strongly condemn the brutal killings of men, women and children numbering 12 in Allaipiddy and Velanai. The Government should go all out to trace these cruel men who-have no place in the society and expose them to the world. Saturday May 13th was Vesak day which very holy to the Buddhists and also to the Hindus being Chitra Full Moon day.

The situation in the North and the East is deteriorating day by day. Without knowing the proper identity of the assailants I have no right to specifically accuse anybody but it is the Government's duty to go all out to prevent such incidents taking place in the future, apart from identifying the culprits and bringing them to book.

Incidents of claymore mine attacks, the throwing of hand grenades at checkpoints and shooting or injuring soldiers are very frequent occurrences in the North and East and should be condemned as equally barbaric acts. Almost in all such incidents innocent civilians also either get killed or injured.

I strongly condemn the killing of six innocent students in Trincomalee as brutal. All of them were Tamils. On what basis the death of three innocent civilians and an auto-driver killed in a clay-more attack become justifiable. They are also Tamils. The T.N.A. Members of Parliament did not open their mouths in respect of these deaths.

Six Sinhalese youth for no fault of theirs were brutally killed at Komarankadawala. Whether it was a retaliatory act or not is not my question. Who did it and why did the T.N.A. Members remain silent? What is the so-called Peoples Front doing?. Why don't they condemn every killing. Who are these killers and who gives them authority to kill?. Are they keeping silent because all these killings are done by the infuriated civilians as claimed by S.P. Tamilchelvam.

The Parliamentarians and the Peoples Front have proved beyond doubt that they are there only to carry out the orders of the L.T.T.E. I firmly say "let the L.T.T.E. stop their killings whether it is by the pistol group or by claymore mine and hand-grenades, killings will automatically stop in all parts of the country."