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RaviS posted September 26, 2001 11:48 AM
LTTE condemns assassination of senior
leader
[TamilNet, September 26, 2001 13:09 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in an official statement
issued from its headquarters in Vanni Wednesday, strongly
condemned the killing of one of its senior leaders, Colonel Shankar.
The statement said the LTTE leadership "shares the Tamil people’s
outrage and treats the killing of a senior leader with utmost gravity."

The full text of the press release follows:
"The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in an official statement issued from its
headquarters in Vanni Wednesday, strongly condemned the killing of one of its senior
leaders Colonel Shankar.
"A deep penetration commando unit of the Sri Lankan Army triggered a claymore
mine on Col. Shankar’s vehicle and he was killed on the spot. The incident occurred
around 10.45 a.m. today near Oddusudan in the heart of Vanni, Northern Sri Lanka.
"Col. Shankar has been an active participant in the Tamil people’s freedom struggle
for nearly two decades. He was a close confidante of the LTTE leader, Mr.
Vellupillai Pirapaharan and accompanied him in the first historic meeting in the Vanni
with Oslo’s Special Envoy, Erik Solheim, in November 2000.
"Provocatively, Col. Shankar’s killing occurred on the anniversary of the death during
hunger strike of Lt. Col Thileepan, a day of profound sadness amongst the Tamil
people. The LTTE leadership shares the Tamil people’s outrage and treats the killing
of a senior leader with utmost gravity.
"Whilst maintaining to the international community that it is committed to a negotiated
settlement, President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s regime has repeatedly sought to
sabotage the Norwegian peace initiative and continued its military operations. As a
result of repeated Sri Lankan acts of aggression, formal and informal efforts to
de-escalate the conflict have proved futile. The attack on Col Shankar and the date
chosen for it highlights the Sri Lankan government’s ongoing determination to seek
the military option in solving the Tamil national question. Prospects for peace talks
through Norwegian facilitation, stalled earlier through Colombo’s efforts to sideline
Mr. Solheim, have been further set back by the killing of this senior LTTE leader."
Hammer posted September 26, 2001 02:47 PM
LTTE Kingpin Prabhakaran has ordered his death and now blames the SLF, no surprises there. Even though the Terrorist Shankar has killed a huge number of innocent Sri Lankans, he was in favor of peace and has threatened few times to break away from LTTE since the war has taken a huge toll of Tamil people for the past 25 years with no result. Ironically, Terrorist Shankar paid his life just like number of past LTTE Terrorist Leaders who tried to deviate from mainstream LTTE.
Birds sang after hearing the death of a human who was very bad to the humanity.
Hammer
Larrikin posted September 26, 2001 07:09 PM
Unbelievable crap!! When it suits them, the Sinhalayas are not such Modayas
after all!! This is the start of infighting within the LTTE that kills other
LTTE people with different ideas on peace. Prabharkaran's fingerprints are
all over this murder.

If Prabharkaran was sent to hell soon, he would be even closer to this LTTE
terrorist prick!!
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Larrikin

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