SPUR condemns assassination of Minister Dassanayake

SPUR, the Australia-based Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights in Sri Lanka unreservedly condemns Tamil Tiger Terrorists cold blooded assassination of Nation Building Minister D.M. Dassanayake, a SPUR release said.

The SPUR said: “All evidence associated with the Claymore roadside bomb set off at Ja-Ela points towards the LTTE. These terrorists are systematically undermining Sri Lanka’s democratic way of life by brutally assassinating Members of Parliament.

The bloodthirsty Prabakaran’s New Year resolution must be to maximise the demise of parliamentarians. The year started with a LTTE pistol gang member shooting dead MP T. Maheswaran.

It is rumoured that Mr Maheswaran did not heed LTTE’s instructions to stop leasing his fleet of ships to the Government of Sri Lanka to transport essential goods to the people living in the Jaffna Peninsula.

Dassanayake, the Member of Parliament for the Puttalam District was responsible as the Minister of Nation Building for taking a leadership role in providing the infrastructure for the recently liberated areas of the North and East.

He had an excellent rapport with all the communities living in the East and was venerated by grateful Tamil and Muslim people who lived under the jackboot terror of the LTTE for over a decade in squalor conditions.

The Minister was instrumental in planning and executing actions to provide essential infrastructure such as roads, hospitals and schools for the long suffering- recently liberated people of the East.

The LTTE would have plotted to assassinate Minister Dassanayake to retard the progress made by President Rajapaksa’s government in providing relief to the people of Eastern Sri Lanka.

The international community must unreservedly condemn this beastly act and read the riot act to the LTTE without mollycoddling it.

We urge President Rajapaksa and the International community not to bow down to terrorism. Appeasing Prabakaran’s insatiable thirst for blood has no happy ending.

Hence it’s the duty of all democracies to support Sri Lanka’s Government in every way it can including providing militarily aid to annihilate Prabakaran, permanently defeat terrorism and usher in sustainable peace to Sri Lanka whilst protecting its unitary state and keeping its territorial integrity intact.”