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Bomb Blast At Nugegoda

By V. Anandasangaree

I very strongly condemn the brutal attack on the innocent civilians at the Nugegoda junction by the LTTE by exploding a bomb, which caused the death of 17 people and injured over thirty-five others. Brutality had so hardened in their hearts that the LTTE would never reform themselves.

The news item that 11 persons including nine students had been killed in a claymore mine attack by the forces that penetrated deeply into the LTTE held area is a real fabrication. Reading this in the Tamil newspaper this morning I felt that this news is a prelude to some serious incident to take place in the course of the day and as expected this tragic incident had taken place at Nugegoda.

The claymore mine incident took place in a village, which is so close to the Kilinochchi town that the forces can't even dream of reaching that village and if what the paper had said is true, the end of the LTTE is nearing.

Those who were instrumental for this news to appear in the papers had a clear motive for doing so. It is obviously to show the International Community that the second incident is retaliatory to the first incident and to justify it.

As one who knows the Kilinochchi Electorate well, I am positively sure that the forces could not have access to the village where this tragedy took place. This area was a part of the Kilinochchi Electorate before the Mullaitheevu Electorate was created.

While condemning this cruel act, I express my deepest sympathies to the families of the victims of both incidents and plead with the people to keep calm without giving vent to their feelings and to see to the safety of the minorities living in their midst.