TINY AUSTRALIAN SOCIALIST PARTY WANTS TO DEMONSTRATE FOR FASCIST TERRORIST GROUP WHO KIDNAPS CHILDREN FOR WAR

By Walter Jayawardhana

When Sri Lanka’s Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva visits Melbourne, the city’s tiny Socialist Party , the sister party of Sri Lanka;s LTTE supporter and Trotskyite United Socialist Party wants to picket him February 27 calling him a war monger.

Nimal Siripala de Silva led the peace delegation at the last peace talks between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

Australian observers said while de Silva wanted to continue with the peace talks it was the LTTE that ended it abruptly and went home and now the Australian Socialist Party who sides with Velupillai Prabhakaran , a Fascist and one who has officially announced that they would resume war , calls the peace loving minister a war monger.

The latest escalation of violence in Sri Lanka started , the observers said, when the friends of the Australian Socialist Party , the LTTE exploded two powerful claymore bombs targeting a morning bus carrying farmers, patients visiting hospital and children going to school and killed 65 innocent civilians including 15 children at a place called Kebithigollewa. The Australian observers said a bunch of people who are calling themselves socialists are not worth that label when they support such glaring terrorism.

The war escalated more , the observers said when the terrorists of the LTTE blocked an irrigation canal depriving 20,000 families drinking and farming water in an arid area and engaging in an attempt of ethnic cleansing in an Eastern seaport. The observers said it was funny friends of socialists engage in such barbaric and racist acts.

“Next Tuesday, the pro war and anti democratic campaigner,” said the Australian Socialist Party website, “ Nimal Siripala De Silva will be in Melbourne as part of a visit to Australia. Siripala De Silva is a senior government minister in the ruling party of Sri Lanka. He looks after the portfolio of Healthcare but has blood on his hands as he has supported recent killings and abductions.”De Silva who is a lawyer by profession has never been accused of such crimes and is having a clean record despite the Australian Socialist Party accusations.

The Australian observers said it was funny that a so-called Socialist Party supported LTTE kill other Tamil leaders in order to build a one party state and a Minister who believes in a parliamentary democracy and free elections is called anti-democratic.

“The situation in Sri Lanka at the moment is escalating into civil war. Hopes were raised four years ago that an agreement could be arrived at between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to end the suffering of both the Sinhala and Tamil people. However, since then the ‘peace process’ has periodically been punctuated by armed exchanges between the Sri Lankan armed forces and Tiger fighters in the north and east of the country, the Australian Socialist Party website said. .

The Australian Socialist Party website said , “In November last year a high profile Tamil MP was shot dead and members of our sister organization in Sri Lanka, the United Socialist Party (USP), are receiving death threats on a daily basis. On one occasion in early January, the General Secretary of the USP, Sirithunga Jayasuriya, escaped with his life when over 300 armed thugs, led by a deputy minister, raided the place where a public rally against the war was due to be held.” It is now believed by the close friends of the assassinated MP and police officers that the execution style killing was done by assassins of the LTTE after the dead MP was critical of the LTTE leadership for sending his children for higher education in England while the Tamil children are being constantly being kidnapped to be conscripted in the LTTE guerilla army.

“The Socialist Party calls on all concerned members of the community to join us and protest the visit of this war monger and abuser of human rights. The Hon. Consul Dr Rodney Arambewela, who also supports the killings and abductions in Sri Lanka, has arranged for the minister to address a public meeting in Melbourne.

The Socialist Party will be picketing this event highlighting the war in Sri Lanka, the gross violations of human and democratic rights and repression of the Tamil people.

Join us 6pm Tuesday February 27th, Deakin University Burwood Campus, lecture theatre LT7 on the second floor of building W (Psychology Department),” the website said.