{"id":49441,"date":"2015-11-15T20:56:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T02:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=49441"},"modified":"2015-11-15T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T20:27:14","slug":"sri-lankans-have-faced-hundreds-of-terrorist-attacks-similar-to-paris-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/11\/15\/sri-lankans-have-faced-hundreds-of-terrorist-attacks-similar-to-paris-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankans have faced hundreds of terrorist attacks similar to PARIS attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malin Abeyatunge<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

All Sri Lankans once the victims of brutal Tamil terrorism for almost 30 years day in and day out totally\u00a0 condemn the brutal terrorist suicide bombing\u00a0 on innocent Parisians who were enjoying a fun night in Bataclan Grand theatre including five other locations simultaneously killing 153 people (current figure) and injuring hundreds.<\/p>\n

Terrorists struck six locations in Paris<\/strong> with gunfire and explosions, killing 153 people and seizing hostages in a nation traumatized by another massacre claimed by ISIS.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s suffice to remind at this moment\u00a0 the UK and French Governments when they sent their Foreign Ministers\u00a0 Bernanrd Kucher (French) and David Milliband (UK) to Sri Lanka at the height of the war against the LTTE terrorist\u00a0 outfit requesting then President Rajapaksa of the Sri Lankan Government to stop the war against the terrorists to save Prabhakaran and his LTTE gang. Thanks for ex President, who did not budge but continued the war on LTTE and saved Sri Lankans from this deadly terrorist group. It\u2019s funny that the French Government has already declared war against the ISIS terrorist outfit\u00a0 having experienced only one incident. (I think Sri Lanka should send some emissaries to France and UK requesting to stop any intended war against ISIS in the same way they requested Sri Lankan Government then).<\/p>\n

The whole world is now in unison with condemning this brutal attack and we have no qualms for that as we too condemn any terrorist act by any group in any part of the world. But our grievance\u00a0 against the western world is how they treated a small island like ours when we were battered with terrorism for 30 years but kept deaf, dumb and blind and shed no tears nor supported the Sri Lankan Government to crush the terrorist outfit. The western world could only say two words WE CONDEMN\u201d whenever we were attacked by the LTTE terrorist outfit\u00a0 knowing very well it was LTTE terrorist outfit who\u00a0 was responsible while harbouring the very terrorists activists in their countries.<\/p>\n

We Sri Lankans for almost 30 years have been experiencing more gruesome attacks by the most brutal terrorist group named LTTE popularly known as Tamil Tigers. Unfortunately the so called western world never\u00a0 shed a tear for those innocent victims not even pointing fingers at the\u00a0 perpetrators in the same way they are pointing at ISIS now.\u00a0 Instead, the western world mainly America, Canada, UK, France, Norway, Sweden Switzerland, Germany and Australia\u00a0 made their countries a haven for the LTTE terrorists to collect funds under dubious (Some of them are still operating under charity organisations)\u00a0fronts to oil the LTTE War Machine to kill innocent Sri Lankans. They hardly made any attempt to\u00a0 stop these organisations collecting funds to procure arms for this terrorist group. In fact, over the last thirty years, Paris became International Money laundering centre rfor LTTE once led by LTTEr Lawrence Thilagar. Unfortunately for the western world they were not terrorists but freedom fighters and they did so for their political survival. Suffice to give a grim reminder for the western world to feel ashamed of themselves of their double standard, which I wish to quote a few\u00a0 incidents herein: (main source-Google)<\/p>\n