Rajiva Wijesinha

“ It would be good if what calls itself a peak body could escape from the depths of wickedness and falsehood into which the Tigers plunged so many of our fellow citizens, and instead tried to make things better for them and for the country as a whole. ”

“ Given the techniques used by the LTTE it is quite likely that many of those killed were combatants of one sort or another, while we know from the testimony of many who tried to escape that the LTTE was ruthless about killing civilians. In this light the testimony of the doctors now, that ‘only up to 750 civilians were killed between January and mid-May in the final days of the war’ (whatever that timeline means) , is quite plausible. The rest of the dead could very well have been combatants forced to fight by the LTTE. ”

“ Recently I have held discussions with several Tamil expatriates who are anxious to escape the yoke of terrorism and discuss instead how they can contribute to the rehabilitation of their people who were crushed for so long by the Tigers. ”