Gothabhaya stresses the need to defeat terrorism
Pictures of President and his younger brother hugging and smiling were flashed across the pages of the world media after a failed assassination attempt on the later left two of his security escorts dead and 12 others injured. In a press statement shortly after the blast, the President’s brother Gothabhaya Rajapakse, who is also the secretary of defense, stressed the “need to defeat terrorism” and assured his commitment to continue his responsibility as the top civilian official in the Sri Lankan military.
TamilNet, the unofficial mouthpiece of the LTTE, reported the incident along with the full text of the statement issued by the US consulate in Sri Lanka condemning the attack but the article was moved down the page as it put the blame squarely on the LTTE and called the incident an act of “terrorism”.
BBC’s Dumeetha Luthra, predictably, gave an alternate view of the incident calling “the rebels’” action a result of the hard-line approach defense secretary has adapted in tackling the Tamil Tigers. Luthra has incorrectly stated in her report that Gothabhaya was opposed to talking with the LTTE.
A similar attack severely injured Gothabhaya’s friend General Sarath Fonseka in April.
LTTE has carried out numerous assassinations including that of Tamil speaking politicians, human rights activists and others for simply opposing the LTTE’s violent campaign for a dictatorial separate state.
TamilNet, the unofficial mouthpiece of the LTTE, reported the incident along with the full text of the statement issued by the US consulate in Sri Lanka condemning the attack but the article was moved down the page as it put the blame squarely on the LTTE and called the incident an act of “terrorism”.
BBC’s Dumeetha Luthra, predictably, gave an alternate view of the incident calling “the rebels’” action a result of the hard-line approach defense secretary has adapted in tackling the Tamil Tigers. Luthra has incorrectly stated in her report that Gothabhaya was opposed to talking with the LTTE.
A similar attack severely injured Gothabhaya’s friend General Sarath Fonseka in April.
LTTE has carried out numerous assassinations including that of Tamil speaking politicians, human rights activists and others for simply opposing the LTTE’s violent campaign for a dictatorial separate state.
posted by lanka matha at 12/02/2006 06:00:00 AM
4 Comments:
Luthra needs to get laid more often. Some of the problems prevelant in such anal retentive persons are generally a direct result of sexual depravity of some sort, and tend to either motivate deviant behavior, or be more develop a sympathetic attitude towards those who are deviant. Luthra apparently is such a case.
BBC is hilarious. Last time when Mr.Raviraj was killed, news was all over the BBC for the whole day, even it was in headline. (Nothing wrong about it) But after 6 hours when I watch BBC even this news was not there. (I’m talking about BBC TV) I guess suicide attack should have more news value than shooting. But look like BBC have deferent stranded in News that we common people don’t know about.
I hate to ask this question as a human. But how many people really dead? BBC said one person dead – some local media said 4 people dead. May be they started with 4 dead people and 3 people came back to live later on?
hmm the assasination of a parlimentarian and the suicide bombing in the heart of colombo ... luthra chose to talk about the assassination. I am actully pro-bbc but i can't understand why they keep luthra in Colombo and give its audience a completely false picture of the situation.
Re: Luthra should get laid more often ... she is fricking ugly ...
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