Massacre and mayhem, Tigers - spawned motto
(By: Dhane**** YATAWARA)
Little Dinuk****, 1 1/2 years old getting treatment at the Intensive Care
Unit of the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital
Podimenike (49) faced the tragic event while on her way to a religious
ceremony in Anuradhapura
Eight year old Kavindu is being treated at the Dambulla Base Hospital on
February 2, 2008
Ward No. 03 of the Dambulla Base Hospital on February 2 2008
Dead bodies ready for post-mortem at the Dambulla Base Hospital.
Pix by: Chinthaka Kumarasinghe
Little Dinuk**** barely knows what is right or wrong in her life spent on
this earth for the past one and a half years. She was lying at the
Intensive Care Unit of the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital where her father
was also lying on a bed just across. Her grandmother was standing
outside the ICU in tears, unable to believe what had happened to her son
and her grand daughter.
Dinuk****'s mother, Nadeeka, has been transferred to another hospital and
the whole family was in chaos. This was the situation of many families
of those who were victims of the Dambulla bus blast on 02nd of February.
At Dambulla 19 innocent civilians died and over 80 were injured. Many of
the passengers were elderly women to attend a religious ceremony in
Anuradhapura in this bus carrying passengers from Kandy to Anuradhapura.
The day before the National Independence day, a female LTTE suicide
attacker blew herself up on Platform No. 3 of the Fort railway station
killing fourteen civilians. Among them were eight schoolchildren in
their blooming youth. Selvadurai (name anonymous), a middle aged man
originally from Kilinochchi had out his eighteen year old son to Colombo
to avoid the LTTE. But the boy died in the bomb blast at Fort. LTTE
killed his loving son despite his efforts.
On Independence Day LTTE triggered a claymore mine targeting a CTB bus
at Ethawetunuwewa in Welioya killing twelve civilians and injuring 17.
Within three days LTTE had massacred over forty civilians and injuring
over 150. LTTE used the cheapest and easiest strategies to show their
desperate psychology. They had proved once again their title of world's
most dangerous and miserable terrorist outfit.
LTTE, fighting for a mono ethnic separate homeland for the Tamils in Sri
Lanka since 1983, engulfed with ideologies based on extreme tribalism,
carried out many civilian massacres against Sinhala and Muslim people
living in the North and Southern parts of the island nation. Since,
beginning of its bloody terrorist campaign against Sri Lankan citizens,
LTTE has been able to turn the entire Northern Province into a mono
ethnic province by killing thousands of people in its ethnic cleansing
raids on Sinhala and Muslim villages.
Following are bits and pieces of the brutal past of the LTTE where Mr.
Prabhakaran massacred the nation irrespective of ethnicities.
From 1984 Dollar Farm massacre
Year 1984 marked the intensification of the terror activities of the LTTE.
The first civilian massacre by the LTTE was re****ted in 1984.
On November 30 1984 LTTE cadres shot dead 33 Sinhalese civilians at the
Dollar Farm, Mullaithivu and on the same day massacred 29 Sinhalese
civilians in Kent Farm in the same area. It was re****ted that the LTTE
used child combatants to attack civilians in order to 'blood' the baby
brigade.
In 1985 the LTTE attacked a major Sinhalese majority town, killing 120
unarmed civilians. On May 14th LTTE gunmen shot dead 120 devotees and
injured 85 others when they were praying at the Sri Maha Bodhi in the
Sacred city of Anuradhapura.
On 07th May 1986, Tiger terrorists detonated a time bomb at the Central
Telegraphic Office at Fort, Colombo killing 14 innocent civilians and
wounding 39 others.
At Kithuluthuwa on the Habarana-Trincomalee highway, LTTE shot and
killed 122 civilians including many children and women on 17th of April
1987. The attack injured 44 others.
The bomb blast at the Pettah bus stand on the 21st of April 1987, killed
110 civilians and injuring 298. Terrorists detonated a car laden with
high explosives.
On June 2nd in 1987, LTTE cadres massacred and brutally mutilated 33
samanera bhikkus (young monks) along with their chief priest, Ven Hegoda
Indrasara Thera at Aranthalawa, Ampara.
In 1990 03rd August, a Friday, LTTE opened fire and killed 103 Muslim
people while they were praying at the Meera Jumma Mosque in Kattankudy.
70 other devotees were injured.
And in late October in the same year the Tigers evicted 90,000 Muslims
from their home town, Jaffna.
Six years after, in July, the LTTE terrorists detonated multiple bombs
on several carriages of the Colombo - Aluthgama train in Dehiwala,
killing 56 commuters and injuring 366. All were, mothers, fathers,
sisters and brothers, returning home after work.
In 2006 May, marked another brutal massacre of the LTTE at Welikanda.
LTTE terrorist attacked and killed twelve workers and injured two others
at Welikanda on 29th May 2006.
Another brutality took place in Kebithigollewa on 15th of June where the
LTTE detonated a claymore mine targeting a bus trans****ting innocent
civilians. This killed 64 people including children, Buddhist monks and
women and injured another 39. The dead from the bus attack included
atleast 15 children, The bus was blown up with a pair of land mines hung
from a tree detonated by remote control, Military said.
Again, LTTE terrorists triggered a claymore bomb on a bus in the town of
Kebithigollewa, 125 miles north of Colombo in the Anuradhapura District
on 15th June 2006.
The blast killed at least 64 civilians and severely injured at least 80
others. Many of the dead were found to be children.
Year 2007 started with another bomb attack in bus in Nittambuwa on 05th
January 2007. This bomb killed six passengers and injured 63 people.
The next day LTTE blasted a bomb in another passenger bus in Seenigama,
down South, killing fifteen civilians and injuring 40 others.
LTTE triggered the bomb inside this Matara bound private bus from
Colombo bearing no - HZ 1709, at Seenigama, near the Kahawa junction ,16
miles North West of Galle.
Six women and two men were killed as a LTTE triggered a bomb exploded
near the Kondavattavana Army security point, along the Badulla-Ampara
main road, on Monday, 02nd of April 2007, around noon. Security sources
in the Ampara area said that the explosion was triggered inside the
civilian trans****tation bus, bound to Bibile and Badulla.
Hospital sources added that 20 odd civilians were believed to have
sustained severe injuries.
On the 08th of April 2007, eight people including a soldier were killed
and 25 people were injured when the LTTE triggered a claymore mine
targeting a public trans****t bus at Piramanalankulam, Vavuniya.
On 23rd April 2007, LTTE terrorists detonated a claymore mine on the
Mannar-Medawachchiya road, killing seven civilians and injuring 37 others.
And in May the same year, Tiger terrorists killed eight civilians and
injured another 36 by the bomb detonated in Ratmalana on the Galle road.
In November 28th 2007, LTTE triggered another bomb in the heart of
Nugegoda during the busy evening killing 19 innocent civilians and
injuring over 38.
According to records of the Teaching Hospital, Kalubowila and National
Hospital, Colombo, three out of the 19 victims killed were children
while 10 out of 38 wounded were between 5-18 years, and 2 of them were
in critical condition. LTTE terrorists carried out another cowardly
attack on civilians by targeting a civilian bus plying from Anuradhapura
to Ja****apura on December 5th 2007. According to the available
information the terrorists have detonated a roadside bomb around 8.15
p.m at Abhimanpura, on the Kebithigollawa-Padaviya road, Defence Sources
said. According to the hospital sources 16 civilians were killed and 23
others sustained injuries due to this claymore explosion.
At the beginning of the year 2008, LTTE terrorists have carried out a
cowardly bomb attack targeting civilians and an Army bus carrying sick
personnel at Slave Island in Colombo on January 2nd. The bomb has been
exploded around 9.30 a.m. right in front of the Nippon Hotel. Four
people including one soldier and three civilians have been killed and 28
others injured in the explosion. There are 17 civilians and 11 soldiers
among the injured.
We all are aware of what happened after these.
Parents of these innocent children killed at these blasts, appeal to the
Government and the whole nation to eradicate terrorism and let all the
communities live in peace and harmony like the good old glorious days,
three decades ago.
Courtesy : Sunday Observer
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For genuine Situation Re****t visit:
http://www.nationalsecurity.lk
http://www.defence.lk/
http://www.army.lk/index1.php
http://www.nmatnet.com/
http://www.sinhalaya.info/index-EN.php
Worth to look following to see how brutal Tamil Tiger Terrorists are
Child Soldiers of LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists in Sri Lanka
http://www.spur.asn.au/childwar.htm
Ethnic Cleansing in Sri Lanka
http://www.spur.asn.au/ethnic_cleansing_in_sri_lanka.htm
LTTE TAMIL TIGER ATROCITIES
http://www.spur.asn.au/ltteatrp.htm
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