Sri Lankan security forces will track down LTTE leaders: PM
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Nov 6, IRNA
Ruling out a ceasefire in the wake of its recent success against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake has said that security forces will continue to track down rebel leaders to deal a "mortal blow" to the Tamil Tigers.
"Our security forces are targeting the hiding places and safehouses of terrorist leaders to deal a mortal blow to the Tigers.
They will not stop the relentless pursuit of terrorists," Wickremanayake told reporters at a function in Ingiriya in the western province of Horana Sunday, PTI reported here Monday.
The rebel movement suffered a sever blow when their political head S P Thamilselvan and five others were killed in an air force raid on Friday.
The Prime Minister said the government did not want to go in for a fresh ceasefire. However, it was ready for unconditional talks, as it has always been.
"It is not the government that left the negotiating table. It is the LTTE which spurned the peace drive. Nevertheless, the government will be ready if they want to negotiate. But we will not stop retaliating terror attacks even while discussions are going on," he added.
"The militants had not only attacked forces personnel, southern targets and Sinhala politicians, but also their own brethren," he said, adding operations against militants were planned and conducted by the security forces themselves.
"Our aim is to eliminate LTTE terrorism and bring peace to the country," he said.
"Our Forces are fully geared to face the enemy which conducts cowardly attacks without coming out into the open. It is the duty of all patriotic citizens to encourage heroic forces personnel," he asserted.
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