ACMC condemns attacks

The All Ceylon Muslim Congress (ACMC) condemned the brutalities unleashed on the Palestinians by the Israelis through its indiscriminate bombardments on the Gaza strip taking on scores of innocent lives including those of children.

ACMC Secretary General Y L S Hamed in a release said: "The condonement and the tacit support tendered by the United States to Israel to commit these heinous crimes speaks volume of its duplicitous stand as the champion for Human Rights on the one hand and an effective partner in crimes against humanity on the other.

"The inability of the United Nations to cry a halt to this terror campaign by Israel calls into question the rationale for its continued existence.

"The role of the current United Nation as a tool for furtherance of the self serving objective of those powers that be can no longer be accepted by the civilised world.

"The time has come for Muslim countries that play to the tune of these super powers and render themselves helpless as a result on the face of onslaughts on the Palatines to take stock of themselves.

"On the whole, the civilised community of the globe will now have to steer a journey towards the establishment of a just world where no country however mighty they might be, should be allowed to go scot free after taking on innocent lives of another country."