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LTTE slams “State welcome” to military chief

COLOMBO: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Tuesday “condemned” India for what it termed the “State welcome” to Sri Lanka military chief Sarath Fonseka during his recent visit and said the “Indian State must take the responsibility for the ethnic genocide of the Tamils that will be carried out by the Sinhala military re-invigorated by such moves of the Indian State.”

In a statement titled “Indian State attempting yet another historic blunder?” the Tigers said the “war of ethnic genocide against the Eelam Tamils, has deeply hurt them.”

“The Sri Lankan State is facing many warnings and condemnations for its attempt to seek a military solution and for its enormous human rights violations. Despite this, the Sinhala State ignores these warnings and condemnations and continues with its abductions, killings, and arrests of Tamils.

“The Sinhala State, keen to cover up this truth, is blaming the freedom movement of the Tamils, the LTTE, for the continuation of the war and is seeking assistance from the world for its war of ethnic genocide,” the statement said.

It claimed that many European countries, understanding this hidden motive of the Sinhala State, had halted all assistance that could support the ‘genocide.’

“The Indian State also knows this truth. Yet, while pronouncing that a solution to the Tamil problem must be found through peaceful means, it is giving encouragement to the military approach of the Sinhala State. This can only lead to the intensification of the genocide of the Tamils.

“LTTE wishes to point out to the Indian State that this historic blunder by it will continue to subject the Eelam Tamils to misery and put them in the dangerous situation of having to face ethnic genocide on a massive scale. On behalf of the Eelam Tamils, LTTE kindly requests the Tamils of Tamil Nadu to understand this anti-Tamil move of the Indian State and express their condemnation.”

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