A Ceylon Moor voice

It is a gory picture indeed! What a tragedy, however she was killed by who ever.

I remember seeing a similar picture of a 8month pregnant Tamil woman suicide bomber sent to Colombo by the LTTE to blow up the Army commander, you know where? Army Head Quarters, that killed 11 innocent soldiers with her and her baby. Fortunately the Army Commander survived to deal with the LTTE as it is happening today.

I have seen more than 300 such killings by the LTTE;

On the 2^nd March 1991 at 8.38AM when the LTTE blew up the then defense Minister to bits, right in front of my office at 68 Havelock Road, Colombo 5 killing over 50 people on the road injuring my staff and destroying my office.

Then on the 31^st Jan 1996, a truck laden with 400kgs of explosives blew up the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in the premier business centre of the Country, the Janadipathy Mawatha, which killed more than 200 innocent people and destroyed every building in sight including my Head Office, killing my tenants and injuring my staff. I saw the bodies and spent 18 hours assisting the injured and dealing with the dead that day pulling concrete rubble.

Hundreds of Tamils, young and the old, the dumb and the brain washed Suicide bombers that LTTE sent to Colombo to kill anyone who they felt they should, ended up in worse condition than the gory picture you attached. Hundreds of Sinhala farmers on the border villages are being butchered every week by the LTTE agents. Just last week on Prophet Mohamed’s Birthday celebration in deep south, the LTTE suicide bomber killed 40 people right in front of a mosque. Surely, there are bounds that even a devil doesn’t cross. We have seen it all and been close to half dozen LTTE suicide bombs, so please don’t tell me or remind me about Gaza, which all of the international community looks the other way.

I want you to remember the thousands of Muslims driven out of Jaffna by the LTTE in the 80’s who are still living in squalid conditions in Puttalam camps. Then more than 20,000 Muslims chased out of Mannar by the LTTE in ethnic cleansing. They too are people who suffering like the Tamils and other minorities, we need to work to empower them.

Let’s face it, LTTE has reached the end of the road. Let us work to save the innocent Tamils, the young, the old, men, women and children who are trapped or held hostage by the LTTE to be used as shields and suffering untold hardship in Mullaitivu and elsewhere. Let’s empower all the elected Tamil politicians of all hues to talk with the powers to find a solution to the disparity and the concerns of the peace loving Tamil population, most of whom are living in the south of Sri Lanka amongst the Sinhalese as well as those in the North and the East.

I have, from 1997 worked for reconciliation through Rotary and then through my foundation - Grassroots - and will continue to work to establish equality. I have been to the then uncleared areas in 1999 and tried so hard to bring reconciliation. Let us all join hands to make all Sri Lankans equal.

ZM.