JHU urges President: Take measures to ban LTTE

Rohan MATHES

COLOMBO: The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) who called upon President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees urged him to take steps to ban the LTTE.

After a peaceful protest rally organised by them at the Vihara Maha Devi Park in Colombo on Saturday (December 02), a memorandum containing the request to ban the LTTE was handed over to President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees by the JHU leader, the Venerable Ellawela Medhananda Thera.

In its memorandum the JHU had cited that the LTTE terror needs no political solution and a total halt to LTTE violence was the only solution.

Vehemently condemning the assassination attempt of Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa by an LTTE suicide bomber last Friday, the memorandum had stated that LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran in his statement had abrogated the Ceasefire Agreement, he himself had agreed and signed.

The memorandum has strongly urged President Rajapaksa, by using the mandate he obtained from the masses on November 17, 2005, and as President, Defence Minister, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Chief Executive, to take action as deemed necessary to proscribe the LTTE as a terrorist organisation and to bring into immediate effect the 'Prevention of Terrorism Act'.

It also urges the President to set aside the so-called Ceasefire Agreement and take appropriate action to target all LTTE nerve-centres and destroy them, the memorandum said.