Controversial Darusman Report:

Move to tarnish Lanka's image

Sarath MALALASEKERA

"Every right-thinking person is concerned about the controversial Darusman Report which was handed over to the United Nations Secretary-General by panellists appointed by Ban ki Moon on his own without the consent of the General Assembly and the Security Council of the UNO," said Consumer Affairs Council chairman, senior Attorney-at-Law Upali Seneratne.

"The Report runs into several pages which has been designed to tarnish Sri Lanka's image, which has gone down in world history, as the first country which exterminated terrorism."

Senaratne said all the leaders who ruled the country before President Mahinda Rajapaksa thought the LTTE to be invincible.

"But the leadership given by President Mahinda Rajapaksa could root out the LTTE with the help of the most disciplined armed forces in the world," he said.

"The LTTE organization assassinated former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, former Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa and attempted to assassinate former Sri Lankan President Chandrika Bandaranaike and killed thousands of innocent civilians. This ruthless LTTE organization also killed Tamil leaders like Lakshman Kadirgamar, A Amirthalingam and N Thiruchelvam, conscripted children for the war, introduced human bombs, and desecrated places, such as, Dalada Maligawa in Kandy and Sri Maha Bodhiya in Anuradhapura," he added.

"The Darusman Report calls that brutal and terrorist organization a "disciplined" one. No sane person would call it so," Senaratne said.

"The Report contains inaccuracies and misinformation and did not divulge the sources of information. Therefore nobody can ascertain the veracity of the reports" he said.

The public have shown their faith in President Mahinda Rajapaksa by giving massive mandates at every election for exterminating terrorism which perpetrated atrocities unparallelled in the history of mankind.