JHU raps US envoy on Batticaloa attack statement

COLOMBO: The JHU in a statement yesterday charged that there is a hidden meaning behind US Ambassador Robert O. Blake’s recent statement that the LTTE would not have attacked the helicopter carrying diplomats to Webber Stadium, Batticaloa had it known that he was aboard.

The statement signed by JHU General Secretary Ven. Omalpe Sobhitha Thera said the US Ambassador had made a similar funny statement earlier too.

He had stated that the Sri Lanka Government could not defeat the LTTE militarily and that it should find an early political solution to the problems which caused terrorism.

The message he has give the Sri Lanka Government is that even though terrorism could be defeated militarily the US would not allow that to happen without granting federalism.

This statement brings to our memory the telegram sent by the then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to President Jayewardene when Prabahkaran was cornered and facing death during the height of the Vadamarachchi battle in 1987.

That message meant that India would not allow operations by Sri Lankan Forces to defeat terrorism. History revealed how this caused a period of terror in the south and a Provincial Council system foisted on us had invariably failed.

Does the US Ambassador’s statement after the Batticaloa mortar attack mean that the LTTE would target diplomats other than the US Ambassador, that there is a secret agreement between the US and the LTTE, that the LTTE is a cats paw of the US supporting the American agenda of destabilising the East.

The release said the US Ambassador’s statement had resolved a suspicion entertained by the people of this country and proved who are the agents behind Tamil separation.

The JHU wished to remind the US Ambassador that Sri Lanka is not a US colony and the Sinhala Buddhists would rise up to prevent any move to make it so and defend the unity and territorial integrity of their motherland if any attempt was made to foist a federal structure of Government.

The JHU also wished to request the US Ambassador to desist from trying to make Sri Lanka another Iraq or Afghanistan by trying to interfere in its internal affairs because the JHU would muster the entire Sinhala Buddhist community in this country to oppose any such move.