LTTE attack on schools condemned

COLOMBO: The Ceylon Teachers' Service Union in a media communique has severely condemned the LTTE mortar attacks on school buildings in Mutur and Thoppur killing 18 and critically injuring more than 60 civilians who were displaced and taking refuge inside these buildings.

The LTTE who are ravaged by the pending shameful defeat are targeting innocent civilians of all communities and intentionally destroying academic institutions of the future generation where the displaced civilians take refuge.

This is a part of their strategy to harass schoolchildren, teachers and principals who defy their terrorist demands.

They have destroyed the Mutur Arab Vidyalaya and Alhilal Vidyalaya and Nooriya Vidyalaya of Thoppur.

Their acts of terror such as abduction and conscription of children in the North and East deprive the children of their right to education.

The separatism of the LTTE is not at all appealing to the intelligentsia of the North and East, the media release emphasised.

The Ceylon Teachers' Service Union in their media communique urged the Government not to tolerate LTTE terrorism any more and take maximum steps to protect the life and liberty of the Sinhalese, Muslims and Tamils living in the North and East.

All who love their motherland and its people should cooperate with the Government against terrorism, communique says.