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| Tuesday, 21 September 2004 |
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LTTE violating human rights, AI told The LTTE has violated the ceasefire agreement more than 3,000 times, states Students for Human Rights in a letter to Amnesty International. The letter stated: "We have made you aware on several occasions on the continuous human rights violations by the direct involvement of LTTE in the North and East provinces as well in Southern provinces of Sri Lanka. Under the coverage of the peace process, the LTTE was engaged in continuous child recruitment, ransoms, property robberies and especially open killings of opposition political group members and leaders representing Tamil people. That was the experience in the whole past history. According to statistics the LTTE has violated the ceasefire agreement more than 3,000 times. Continuing the opposition political activists' assassinations policy of the LTTE another death was reported on September 18. Sinnadoray Sivakumaran, the organiser of Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) Jaffna district was shot dead by the LTTE in Rathmalyaya area in the Puttalam district. Sivakumaran had taken legal action against the undemocratic practices of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the LTTE in the last general election. He was killed when the case was pending in the Supreme Court. A large number of EPDP activists who held various responsibilities within the party have been assassinated by the LTTE. This situation is common to all anti LTTE political parties, groups and individuals. We as the Students for Human Rights condemn this practice of LTTE suppressing various political views of various political groups. We earnestly request our organisation to give the possible highest investment to protect the democratic rights of all Sri Lankan Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim people." |
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