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Letter to the EU

from E. Satkunarajah

In the last four years of relative peace in Sri Lanka, there have been scores of high-ranking officers from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) violently and systematically killed by paramilitaries and the state armed forces. The LTTE and various other parties brought the covert war of the state against the LTTE to the attention of the international community numerous times.

The Presidency
European Union
Brussels
April 26th 2006

Dear Sir/Madam,

Re: Tamil civilians are being bombed and shelled by the state forces in Eastern Sri Lanka. Dangerous and destructive full scale war on Tamils is imminent

Tamil civilians are being bombed and shelled by the state forces in Eastern Sri Lanka as a reprisal for what happened in the capital Colombo on April 25th.
Sinhalese extremists and hardliners, political parties in south likethe JVP, JHU, etc are working tirelessly against the peace openly and calling for the Tamils to
be punished in the form of aerial bombing and shelling by the state forces.

In the last four years of relative peace in Sri Lanka, there have been scores of high-ranking officers from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) violently and systematically killed by paramilitaries and the state armed forces. The LTTE and various other parties brought the covert war of the state against the LTTE to the attention of the international community numerous times. The international community failed to hold the Sri Lankan state responsible for these cowardly acts.

The latest event is a pure product of the spiraling effects of violence unleashed by the Sri Lankan state forces and paramilitary forces against Tamils.

The EU and the international community should bring adequate pressure on the Sri Lankan government to strictly adhere to the peace process. The EU and the international community should condemn this violence and covert operations against the LTTE.

The EU and the international community should send a clear signal to the Sri Lankan government to pursue a just and fair solution to the Tamils'
problems. The current Sri Lankan president is only offering lip service to peace to deceive the international community, while appointing hardliners to the arms services to take the country to the war path.

If you look back the last 50 year history, there is always a contradiction between what the Sri Lankan leaders say in public and what they do to the minority Tamils on the ground. Both southern extremists and anti-Tamil forces are being used by the state as a spoiler to prolong this bloody war in which innocent Tamils' lives and their hard-earned properties are systematically destroyed.

Many Tamil intellectuals and political workers were assassinated by state forces or paramilitaries; to name a few: the well known lawyer, Mr. Kumar
Ponnambalam, well known military affairs journalist Mr. D. Sivaram (Taraki), journalist Mr. Richard De Zoysa, BBC reporters Mr. Nimalarajan and Mr. Nadasan, Prof. Thambiyah, Tamil MP, Mr. Chandraneru, Mr. Joseph
Pararajasingam MP, Mr. Vigneswaran and many more innocent civilians.

I humbly request the EU and the international community to persuade the Sinhalese government not to bomb the innocent Tamil civilians. In the same breath, I would like to also request the EU member states and the international community to persuade the Sri Lankan government to make sincere effort to solve the Tamil
issue, and not to conduct a covert war against their negotiating partner.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Yours truly,

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