{"id":56625,"date":"2016-07-16T15:56:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T22:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=56625"},"modified":"2016-07-16T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T22:56:17","slug":"retribution-at-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/07\/16\/retribution-at-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"RETRIBUTION AT\u00a0 NICE"},"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 attack\u00a0 on innocent Parisians who were enjoying a National Day (Bastille Day) celebrations in NICE killing\u00a0 84 people and maiming hundreds of others. This is the third terrorist attack over the last two years alleged to be another massacre by ISIS. Our deepest sympathies are with the families of the victims of this inhuman dastardly act.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s suffice to remind at this moment\u00a0 the UK and French Governments when they sent their Foreign Ministers\u00a0 Bernard Kuschner (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 brutalists ,would have had to face terrorism on their soil someday. Thanks for ex President Mahinda Rajapaksa who shoved them off through the back door asking them to mind their own\u00a0 back yards first without interfering in our country\u2019s affairs. Ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa\u00a0 who did not budge an inch from his stand but continued the war on LTTE until the LTTE was annihilated conclusively and\u00a0 saved Sri Lankans from this deadly terrorist group. Unfortunately he became a pariah<\/em> for the western world including France for not listening to them. The French Government has already declared war against the ISIS terrorist outfit\u00a0 having experienced\u00a0 three terrorist incidents during the last two years and last one being the attack this week at NICE. (I think Sri Lanka should send some emissaries to France requesting to stop any intended war against ISIS in the same way French former FM Bernard Kuschner asked our ex-President to stop the war against LTTE, the most brutal terrorist outfit in the world.<\/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.<\/p>\n

In fact, over the last thirty years, Paris became the International Money laundering center for LTTE once led by LTTE Lawrence Thilagar.\u00a0 There are still LTTE cells operating in Paris unhindered. As I remember right, one council allowed the LTTE cells in Paris to build a statue of LTTE terrorist leader Prabhakaran. It was so happened or not, I do not know.<\/p>\n

Let the present French Government open their eyes at least now and treat all terrorists alike\u00a0 whether it\u2019s ISIS, Alqueda or LTTE\u00a0 without any double standards and stop harboring them. Bernard Kuschner former French Foreign Mister should be shameful of his own dastardly act to save LTTE terrorist group by asking Ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa to stop the war against LTTE.<\/p>\n

Let me also mention that former London Mayor Ken Livingstone allowed LTTE (Once most brutal terrorist group in the world) allowed prestigious venue like Trafalgar Square to celebrate Tamil Day on May 18 , the day the LTTE was conclusively defeated by the then Government lead by ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa. This is what Ken Livingstone alleged to have told;<\/p>\n

QuoteI want to work with the British Tamil forum and every year we can give Trafalgar Square to the Tamil community of London to organise an event like this,\u201d Livingstone is quoted as saying at a Tamils for Labour meeting organised by the separatist pro-LTTE groups in East London. Unquote<\/p>\n

The step taken by Ken was obediently followed by the subsequent Mayor Of London\u00a0 Boris Johnson\u00a0 providing prestigious venues for LTTE rallies. He is now the new UK Foreign Minister.\u00a0 I hope he will at least now do the right thing by not molly coddling the LTTE\u00a0 activists in dubious names and fronts now living in UK and continue their terrorist agenda unhindered.<\/p>\n

The Paris attack may be by Muslim terrorists, but world should not forget that there are other terrorist outfits as well and treat TERORISTS AS TERRORISTS WITHOUT ANY DOUBLE STANDARD.<\/p>\n

Malin Abeyatunge<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Malin Abeyatunge 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 attack\u00a0 on innocent Parisians who were enjoying a National Day (Bastille Day) celebrations in NICE killing\u00a0 84 people and maiming hundreds of others. This is the third terrorist attack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malin-abeyatunga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}