Pro-LTTE Terrorists TNA Overjoy on US sanctions against Army Chief

Pro-LTTE Tamil terrorist political party TNA had welcomed the politically motivated and geopolitics based United States’ sanctions against Sri Lankan Army Chief Lt. Gen. Shavendra Silva for the so called excesses committed under his watch during the last phase of the  war against Tamil terrorists  in 2009.

The New York Times had quoted pro-Tamil terrorists Tamil National Alliance (TNA) spokesman,   M A Sumanthiran as saying:  “At least now, the government of Sri Lanka must wake up to this reality and allow the perpetrators responsible for killing thousands of civilians to be brought to justice,”

General Silva commanded the 58th division of the Sri Lankan Army during the final stages of the war, a unit the U.N. accuses of committing rights violations on a wide scale. Thousands of Tamils who surrendered to Silva’s division vanished without a trace, The New York Times said.

However, it is a known fact that almost all killed in the war at the final stage were Tamil terrorists’ members of LTTE.

The sanctions are the first international action against Sri Lanka stemming from its brutal civil war.

The New York Times noted that the travel restriction on the general is the first significant international penalty to be imposed on a Sri Lankan official over atrocities committed during the country’s 26-year civil war with Tamil Tiger militants. The United Nations estimates that up to 40,000 Tamil civilians died in those final stages, many in extrajudicial killings, accusations the Sri Lankan government has denied.

However, sources in political and defense stating that this unprecedented sanction had been introduced to pressurize Sri Lankan government to sign the American military agreements such as SOFA, ACSA, and MCC which majority Sri Lankans and politicians are thinking that these are one sided American agreements  that damaging the sovereignty of the Island.

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