“Ceasefire is dangling on a thin thread”
Head of the political section for Jaffna
Head of the LTTE political section for Jaffna, Mr Ilamparuthy, said in a statement condemning the Sri Lankan Army’s (SLA) ceasefire violations that “the ceasefire is dangling on a thin thread.”
The full text of the statement is as follows, 
“Recently the SLA has been a threatening and harassing presence in people’s lives. In particular, the SLA has been conducting arbitrary round-ups, investigations and cordon and search operations and creating new roadblocks for security checks. People are being attacked without any reason during recent incidents when the SLA opened fire.”
“In Eluthumadduval area a 14-year-old girl was grabbed by a SLA soldier on the road and when a nearby civilian shouted, the SLA soldier let her go. Civilian harassment such as this and other serious offenses like rapes are becoming increasingly out of control.” “We reported this civilian harassment and sexual harassment against women and school girls to the SLMM and demanded that this is immediately stopped. We strongly condemn these offenses.” “After we withdrew our members from the Jaffna peninsula, fourteen murders, six rapes and several murder threats have occurred. Now the situation is becoming worse. During these times, the ceasefire agreement is being pushed into a critical state. It is clear that the SLA is taking advantage of the weak ceasefire agreement.”
19 December 2005
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Europe which has a total population of 800 million is made up of 45 language based nation states. South Asia which has a total population of one billion, (1000 million) is comprised of four states. Who is preventing and therefore benefiting by limiting new nation-states in South Asia?
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