Press Statement.

 Tulf condemns suicide bomb attack in a place of worship.

 The Tamil United Liberation Front very strongly condemns the suicide attack on a religious precession in which the Chief Guest and other Guests were being taken to the Mosque where a function was organized to celebrate the Notional Milad-ud-Nabi festival.  This is yet another incident in which the LTTE had shown its thirst for blood.  The LTTE is now a frustrated lot.  They will not leave one stone unturned to show the world their atrocious character.  Day by day they are losing their credibility and the whole world is fast changing their attitude against the LTTE.  Even the little support they had internationally has now gone to the rock bottom.  This is the time the country must unite irrespective of political, racial and religious differences and work together to destroy them.  This should be the only agenda on which all should work, by closing ranks.

This is another attempt of the LTTE to spark off a communal riot.  We should prove that they will fail not only in this attempt but will also fail in all future attempts.  I have a special massage for my Muslim brothers.  We have got to learn some thing from our Sinhalese brothers.  All acts of the LTTE are so provoking that they are beyond a man’s limit of tolerance.  Yet we have to restrain ourselves without playing into the hands of the LTTE.

I express my deepest sympathies for the families that lost valuable lives and had many injured.  I also convey my deepest sympathies to the Sri Lanka freedom Party and the Communist Party of Sri Lanka both of which had lost very progressive and young leaders representing the people in Various Local bodies and to the kit and kin and also to their constituents who loved them dearly.  I pray to god for the early recovery of all those injured Civilians, Members of Political Party and the Hon. Minister Maninda Wijesekara.

May all these souls for whom I have the greatest respect, rest in peace.

V. Anandasangaree,

President – TULF.