The President said: “My Government and I are committed to defeating terrorism. No one should have expectations that there will be a let up in the battle against terrorism because of the frenzied attacks by the LTTE. I will leave no room for terrorism in this country.”
“In its desperation the LTTE is now trying to whip communal strife and take the country back to the situation as in 1983. The Government will not let this happen,” he added.
President Rajapaksa said the bomb blast on the train at Dehiwela followed the discovery of three other bombs placed in passenger buses by the LTTE, which were found by bus employees and passengers. This showed the extent of the LTTE’s frenzy in the face of its current defeats and setbacks in the North. It was clear that in the face of defeat the LTTE was increasing its attacks targeting innocent civilians. This is the reality that can be seen from these savage attacks,
He said the Government’s battle against terrorism was not directed against the Tamil people. The Government was committed to protect the rights of the Tamil people, as it had done in the East. We intend to take the success in the East forward, until we ensure the people of the North of their rights.
The President emphasized there would be no let up in the war against terrorism. There will be a political solution given from the Tamil people. “We have sent a speedy message to the North from the East”, he said.
He called on the media to act with responsibility in the national interest in dealing with the government’s war against terrorism.
President Rajapaksa was addressing the heads of media institutions and editors of the Sri Lankan media at a meeting to discuss current issues with them at Temple Trees today (27)
- Sri Lanka Guardian
Human Rights Council and Sri Lanka
The International Community should be applauded for having given Sri Lanka the resounding slap it deserves for its continuing disregard of Human Rights.
Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize from three continents called on UN members to reject Sri Lanka’s candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council, the NGO Coalition for an Effective Human Rights Council said today. Nobel laureates Desmond Tutu of South Africa, Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina, and Jimmy Carter of the United States each published statements urging opposition to Sri Lanka because of its abusive human rights record.
Sri Lanka was rated worse in Human Rights violations.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse started by launching a venomous attack on Tamil speaking people, both Tamils and Muslims on the pretext of destroying Terrorism. Bombing civilians and disappearances were mixed with the misery of the displaced people in the North and East of Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese youth was sacrificed for a bogus patriotic war of killing its own brethren.
The abduction and assault of a senior and respected Journalist in the country, Defense Columnist and Associate Editor of The Nation, Keith Noyahr, appears to have been the Sri Lankan response to being voted out of the UN Human Rights Council
Keith Noyahr, Deputy Editor with the English weekly The Nation, was abducted and severely beaten and tortured on Thursday night.
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