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Though the LTTE has violated their unilateral cease-fire, eleven Tamil political parties appealed to the government yesterday to “stop the war and respond to unilateral declaration of cease-fire of the LTTE.” when asked whether they were coming to the rescue of the LTTE at a time they are suffering setbacks, TELO representative said that they were only speaking on behalf of the Tamil people and were not trying to protect anyone else. However when confronted with as why they were not making any appeal to the LTTE in the same vein, he said that they did not want to “put the cart before the horse.” The eleven Tamil parties who said they were for a political solution within a united Sri Lanka kept on referring to a Tamil Eelam in the North-East of the country. The eleven Tamil parties are TELO, TULF, PLOTE, All Ceylon Tamil Congress, Democratic Workers Union, National Workers Union, CWCA, CNWS, ADWC, and a faction of the EPRLF and the alternative CWC. The general experience behind the LTTE unilateral declaration of cease-fire is to strengthen their weak military power to de-escalate the security force’s successful military offensive against them in the North and the East. Meanwhile “the Security forces are now doing their best to weaken the LTTE military by conducting successful military operations to capture Tiger-held areas. The government is not fighting the war to provide a solution to the North-East problem, but to protect the rights of the majority of people in the North, said the Deputy Defence Minister Anuruddha Ratwatte.
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