Defence Spokesperson regrets over decadence of Human Rights groups

13th February 2008
Addressing the media today (February 13) in Colombo, Media Spokesman for National Security, Keheliya Rambukwella recounted with sadness the taking away of the lives of budding youth and school children in the very recent past and paid a tribute to the parents, relatives and colleagues, the schools they came from and the general public who bore the tragedy, remained calm and refrained from any untoward act such as expected by the LTTE, in the greater interest of the country.

“One can never forget the eight team members of the same school and their coach who became victims to the explosion at the Fort Railway station; the two children who died bomb attack near Nippon Hotel, Slave Island; and other two schoolchildren killed at Nugegoda bomb blast near a shopping mall. Another 14 year old child was killed in Akkarapattu yesterday. These children belonged to all three communities Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim and it is evident that the LTTE targets all, irrespective of community, religion, gender or age.”

Speaking further, he said that organizations like Amnesty International were clearly biased in their hue and cry and reporting and were serving the interests of another party’s agenda.

He also referred to yesterday’s incident at the Thalladi Church, where the LTTE launched an attack on the soldiers who were there on the invitation of the Church’s vicar to clean the premises.

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