LTTE hampering country’s progress for last two decades

Walter Jayawardhana

LOS ANGELES: The Consul General of Sri Lanka in Los Angeles Jaliya Wickramasuriya told the monthly meeting of all Consul Generals in Los Angeles that one reason all civilised nations should be united against terrorism is because all terrorist Groups are united against all civilised nations in the world today.

He said for instance many inventions of terror like suicide boats and suicide jackets by Sri Lanka’s most innovative terrorist group the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in no time were transferred to Al Queda for a price although the two groups are not ideologically similar.

“That fact alone,” said Jaliya Wickramasuriya, “alarmingly indicate that all civilised nations represented by us should be united in fighting the common enemy of the 21st century -terrorism.”

Wickramasuriya told the representatives of many nations of the world who were meeting at a luncheon meeting hosted by the Japanese Consul General Kazuo Kodama that Sri Lanka has been attacked by some of the worst terrorists in the world similar to the ones who glaringly exposed themselves by the barbaric attack on 9/11.

Wickramasuriya said the most innovative well-armed terrorist group has been hampering the progress of the country for the last two decades.

He said the vicious terrorist group is hell bent on dividing the small 25,000 square mile island and carve out a mono-ethnic Fascist regime.

“We are a parliamentary democracy. So, we have to take extra measures to protect human rights while fighting this terrorist menace that makes it more difficult,” he said.