Army condemns LTTE’s murder of Poosari

COLOMBO: The Sri Lanka Army yesterday condemned the brutal assassination of the Chief Poosari of the Santhiveli Pulleyar Kovil, Batticaloa, Selliah Kurukkal Parameshwaran 63, by a marauding gang of Tiger terrorists on wednesday night.

Army Commander Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka said terrorists chased away from Verugal and Vakarai areas after their infiltration into the Thoppigala jungle patches are directly responsible for this crime and a number of other random terrorist attacks in the east.

“This barbaric and gruesome act of terrorism, perpetrated on a holy priest of the Tamil community with no regard to the values of humanity, once again clearly reinforces the need to have Hindu devotees as well as all Tamil civilians in the east liberated from the horrendous clutches of Tiger terrorism that has affected all the fabric of our civil society across the country,’ the Commander said.

He said the Army, as done in the recent past, is determined to ensure security of the civilians in the east, forcing those terrorists to face the consequences of this barbaric act and continuing terror.

While denouncing non-ending LTTE terror objectives in the strongest possible terms, the Army Commander reiterated his commitment to rid the whole of Eastern Province of terrorism in the near future, and creation of conducive-free environment which in turn will facilitate the smooth co-existence and harmonious life for all peace-loving people, irrespective of their ethnic and religious differences.