Another example of LTTE's commitment to terror: Lankan president
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, June 26, IRNA
Sri Lanka-LTTE-President
"The assassination of Major General Parami Kulatunga, the deputy chief of staff of the Sri Lanka Army, is a another example of the LTTE's continued commitment to terrorism and its cowardly use of suicide killers, deserving of contempt and condemnation," said President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a special message on the LTTE's assassination carried out Monday morning.
President Rajapaksa said: "This unabated violence by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) should attract the opprobrium of the entire civilized world. It is a reminder to the international community, and to the Tamil people, that the LTTE remains an organization dedicated to pursue violent means, especially the use of terror to achieve its objectives, which are far removed from the actual needs of the Tamil people."
An official news website of Sri Lanka also quoted the president as saying this act of violence targeting a high ranking officer of the Sri Lanka Army, and the callous disregard for the safety of civilians in such attacks, will not frighten either the civilians or the security forces, nor deter them from overcoming the LTTE and its terror.
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