LTTE calls for recognition UDI of Tamil Eelam

(January 30, Kilinochi, Sri Lanka Guardian) The LTTE Political Wing head B. Nadesan has called on the international community, particularly the UN, to recognise areas under rebel control as a separate state, the LTTE Peace Secretariat said in a statement.

According to the statement, “Just three weeks ago on 4 January, in an aerial bombing of Uppupukulam village in the Mullaithivu district, seven children ranging in age from 3 to 16 were among those injured. Just two months ago, on 27 November, in another claymore attack on a van carrying school children trained in first aid, six children were among those killed. On that same day in an aerial bombing of the Voice of Tigers radio building three children traveling on the road were among those killed. Just two days prior to this, in an aerial bombing on the village of Tharmapuram in the Mullaithivu district three children were among those killed. On the 8th of that same month one child was killed and another lost his leg in an aerial bombing of the village of Alampil in the Mullaithivu district.”

“The deliberate targeting of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan State has continued even through the nearly six year period of the ceasefire agreement signed in February 2002. Since the present President of Sri Lanka took office in November 2005, 2056 Tamil civilians including 132 Tamil children have been massacred by the Sri Lankan State forces,” the statement added.

“It should be obvious to the international community by now that our organization has demonstrated its readiness to cooperate with the international community. It should also be obvious to the international community that there is only one path open to regain the rights of the Tamil people and that is for the international community to recognize the sovereignty of the Tamil nation,” the statement also said.

However political analytical say, “LTTE should understand that no body cant win separate land by terrorism, by appealing such a thing from international community their try to wear them to bull, because international community has allied to a single front to defeat the terrorism today.”