Lanka condemns Baghdad terrorist attacks

The Government has strongly condemned the coordinated bomb attacks in Baghdad on August 19, 2009, which killed more than a hundred and caused injuries to several hundred innocent civilians.

Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama called the attacks as “dastardly acts”, perpetrated to cause mayhem and agony to the people of Iraq who were well on their way to restoring peace and stability and rebuilding Iraq after years of conflict and mistrust.

As a country which had experienced the menace of terrorism for over 25 years until the successful defeat of the world’s deadliest terrorist group, Sri Lanka sympathizes with the Government and the people of Iraq for the trauma and devastation caused to innocent civilians by the terrorists in Baghdad and elsewhere in that country.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has conveyed to President Jalal Talabani of Iraq his vehement condemnation at these despicable, cowardly attacks in Baghdad, expressing Sri Lanka’s solidarity with the Government and the People of Iraq at this difficult time.