12 civilians killed, 6 injured in brutal LTTE village massacre at
Kirimetiya in Iginiyagala [Updated]
12 civilians including 2 children were killed while 6
others including 2 children reportedly sustained serious injuries when a
group of LTTE terrorists opened indiscriminate small arms fire at
civilians in Karametiya at Rathmalgaha Ella, in Iginiyagala today
(Feb 21) at around 5p.m.
According to Iginiyagala police sources, LTTE
terrorists have stormed into the Karametiya village and opened fire at
civilians indiscriminately. These people are mainly chena
cultivators the sources further said. The terrorists have shot at
the civilians at pointblank range the Police said citing the injured who
had managed to flee the area. Over the years LTTE terrorists have used
village massacres and brutal attacks at livestock of the Sinhalese and
Muslim villagers as an instrument of systematic genocide.
Army and Police Special Task Force (STF) personnel
were inducted to the area in pursuit of the suspected terrorists.
The injured civilians were evacuated to the general hospital at Ampara.
According to Iginiyagala Police, the villagers have sought protection
with security forces who are now temporarily camped at the Nelliyadda
government school. Meanwhile, a member of the Iginiyagala
Pardeshiya Sabha, who went to inquire on the incident sustained serious
injuries due to a land mine explosion. It is feared that terrorists have
laid similar mines to slow down military search and cordon operations.
LTTE is a ruthless terrorist outfit that has been
fighting for a mono ethnic separate homeland for Tamils since 1983. The
outfit led by its psychopathic leader V. Prbhakaran is notorious for
crimes against women and children. During its three decades of terror
campaign against Sri Lankan citizens the outfit has killed and maimed
over tens and thousands innocent children in ethnic cleansing raids,
indiscriminate bomb attacks and by using child soldiers at the
battlefronts.
The FBI in its recent report called LTTE as the
deadliest terrorist outfit in the world. According to the report, "it's
not al Qaeda or Hezbollah or even HAMAS" but the group is called the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) or the Tamil Tigers for short is
the deadliest and most dangerous terrorists outfit in the world
More information will follow.
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