Rajiva Wijesinha

“ The footsoldiers of the West, sometimes pursuing destructive ideals, sometimes seeking cheap sensation, sometimes with nastier motives, use the language of love. Their potential murderousness is equally destructive for Sri Lanka, and also for India when, as is inevitable, the two strategies coincide and Vaiko and Padmanabhan join together again in another dance of death, along with their shadowy supporters of all shades. ”

“ Mr Vaiko evidently wants the terrorist legacy of Mr Prabhakaran to continue in its existing form, and he will obviously do his best to further this through relentless propaganda. The effect of such propaganda will be to get even more poor innocent young Tamils to commit themselves to terror, to become fighters and suicide killers for the Tiger cause. ”

“ Bearing in mind that officially speaking we have no statistics for LTTE casualties, we realise that at least some of these 7,200 must be combatants, whether hard core cadres or the civilians forced into taking up weapons, a practice well attested finally by the UN, both UNICEF complaining of continuing child recruitment in the last days of the LTTE, and UNDP, moved to protest by the recruitment of the young daughter of one of its workers, who had not been permitted to leave LTTE controlled territory for several months. ”