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Intelligence reports have revealed that LTTE has coerced certain Tamil Political parties, Non Governmental organisations, religious bodies and university students based in north and east to launch protest campaign aimed at portraying the Sri Lanka Government’s hesitation to usher in peace by ending the war, said the Special Media Information Centre in a press release. Instigating the undergraduates in north and east to launch protest campaigns against the Government through such elements has become the LTTE’s latest mode to cover their eroding image in the face of international community and to evade LTTE being declared as a terrorist organisation in Britain. Forced by LTTE hierarchy, students of the north and eastern University recently launched a protest campaign ostensibly to urge Sri Lanka Government to recognise the Tamil people’s rights. But protestors mainly concentrated on calling upon the Government to reciprocate the LTTE’s call for ceasefire. Judging by the LTTE’s past records on peace initiatives, the Government has clearly stated that the LTTE should submit a concrete proposal to find a lasting solution to the problem before agreeing to any ceasefire offer to which the LTTE has not yet responded. The Government is of the view that the Tamil parties and groups rather than going behind the diplomatic Corp. to bring about a ceasefire, to bring about a ceasefire, should bring the pressure on the LTTE to submit a concrete proposal to the Government for discussions to find a lasting peace in the country. The government has repeatedly stated its clear stand even after the extension of ceasefire by LTTE on the necessity of coming to the negotiating table aimed at finding lasting solutions to the problems. President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge in an interview reiterating the Government’s policy on Sunday night said that that LTTE proposal should devoid of a separate state and there should be a fixed time frame to negotiate the problems facing the Tamil community. Attributing to the ulterior motive of the LTTE the Security sources said, that the LTTE need to re-group, re-arm and re-organise and they need to evade the UK ban which is on the verge. Another important factor is to mobilise manpower as they in the recent past failed to conscript teenagers since parents openly protested to such conscription said security sources. According to the monitored transmission of the LTTE clandestine radio, LTTE hierarchy has issued instructions to its area leaders to deviate the tender mind of the students from education to a military culture. The Tamil parents are in a quandancy to understand as to how Prabakharan’s children sat for the GCE (Ord./Level) examination last year while other children of their age were deprived of this opportunity due to conscription of teenagers contravening all international conventions to protect the rights of children. It is only two months ago the LTTE front organisations launched a campaign in Canada schools to raise funds to its cause deceiving the students. The Canadian education authorities have taken drastic measures to forbid such attempts in the future.
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