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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 - 09.37 GMT |
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We knew LTTE
would never lay down arms and negotiate
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The
military
operations
against
the LTTE
did not
come
without
negotiations
or
without
a
reason.
We were
ready
for it
from the
start
because,
we knew
from
experience
they
would
never
lay down
arms and
negotiate,
said
President
Mahinda
Rajapaksa
in his
recent
interview
with The
Hindu.
From the
beginning
I had
the
feeling
that if
the Sri
Lankan
Armed
Forces
were
given
proper
instructions
and
their
requirements,
our
people
could
defeat
the LTTE.
I always
had the
feeling
that
what the
LTTE
were
showing
was not
the
reality,
President
added.
Here are
some
highlights
of
Part-2
of the
interview
with
President
Rajapaksa
published
in The
Hindu
today,
July 07.
The LTTE;
They
would
have
attacked
South
India.
The
weapons
they had
accumulated
could
not have
been
just for
Sri
Lanka!
The
amount
of
weapons
our
armed
forces
are
discovering
is
unbelievable.
LTTE’s
strategy;
I think
what
they
wanted
was to
escape.
In the
final
phase,
they
were
waiting
for
somebody
to come
and take
them
away…Because
they had
the Sea
Tiger
base:
that was
the only
place
where
they
could
bring a
ship
very
close —
even a
submarine.
They
selected
the best
place
for
them: on
one side
the sea,
then the
lagoon,
and
there
was a
small
strip.
But then
it was
not they
who
actually
selected
the
place.
LTTE
tactics;
I can’t
understand
why they
had to
fight a
conventional
war.
Prabakaran
could
have
gone
underground.
If I was
the
leader
of the
LTTE, I
would
have
gone
underground
and I
would
have
been in
the
jungles
—
fighting
a
guerrilla
fight.
For full
text of
Part-2
of the
interview
visit
“We knew
they
would
never
lay down
arms and
start
negotiating”
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