Lax security exposed Lankan cricketers to a group who practises suicide attacks

SPUR protests to International Cricket Committee (ICC):

Walter Jayawardhana

AUSTRALIA: Australia’s anti-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organisation, the Society of Peace and Unity in Sri Lanka (SPUR) has protested to International Cricket Committee (ICC) that a lax security at the Cricket World Cup at Granada National Stadium has exposed the Sri Lankan cricketers to Munich type terrorist attack by suicide bombers.

The society publishing a photograph of LTTE supporter invading the cricket pitch with a red coloured terrorist flag of the spring tiger has accused the world cricket cup organizers of a lax security arrangement where the London based Amnesty International aided by the LTTE also is allowing a cricket ball campaign against Sri Lanka.

Though Amnesty International says its campaign is not against the Sri Lankan cricket team who have entered the final round of the World Cricket Cup it had selected the cricket ground for a campaign against Sri Lanka.

When Sri Lanka was playing against Australia a supporter of the LTTE terrorist group invaded the cricket pitch exhibiting the terrorist group’s red coloured flag that denotes a ferocious springing tiger framed by two bayonets.

LTTE is the world’s leading suicide bombers and sold its technology of suicide bombs to the Middle Eastern Al Queda group. Intelligence experts say the current suicide jackets used by Al Queda is a result of the technology sold to them.

The LTTE has increasingly used children and women wearing the suicide jackets targeting civilian and military in Sri Lanka and India. Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is the most famous suicide bomb victim of the LTTE.

The SPUR says due to the lax security situation at the World Cup tournament , the organizers have exposed the Sri Lankan team to a Munich type situation by allowing the terrorists to invade the pitch.

In a statement published in its website the SPUR referring to the man who invaded the cricket pitch with a terrorist flag said, “Even if he had been a suicide bomber or a gunman on a mission to create a ‘Munich’ type situation, there would have been very little that the security personnel on duty could do.

For an outfit that has assassinated an incumbent President of Sri Lanka, made an attempt on the life of another President, killed a foreign minister and blown a former Prime Minister of India to bits, harming a team of cricketers is only child’s play.”

The website further said, “The raid comes against the backdrop of the London Headquartered Amnesty International launching a campaign styled as Sri Lanka: Play by the Rules. It is possible that these flags may be displayed by terrorists backed by pro-LTTE NGOs to demoralize the SriLankan cricket team and rob them of a possible World Cup victory.”

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has announced that it is supporting the play by rule cricket ball campaign launched by the Amnesty International. (EOM)