Dr Muralidaran Ramesh Somasunderam, whose chosen title is “The Liberation Ttigers of Tamil Elam.”
The LTTE was the worst thing that destroyed Sri Lanka and its people for nearly forty years.
The LTTE killed many high caste Tamils, including Sinhalese and Muslims. They believed in children and women soldiers and suicide killing.
In fact, the 1983 ethnic riots were blamed rightly or wrongly because the LTTE killed about twelve to thirteen army soldiers in the North of Sri Lanka. Anyway, when innocent Tamils like me faced the brunt in Colombo in July 1983 the LTTE never came to our rescue. Many thousands of innocent Tamils were killed and their properties destroyed totally. In fact, my father Mr Rama Krishna Somasunderam was Senior Assistant Secretary in the Ministry of Mahaweli, but our family home located at no 16 Elvin Place, Nugegoda was totally burnt, including a magnificent private library of ancient books and teak furniture was totally destroyed or looted all together.
“Barbarians on scooters are riding through our capital city hunting Israelis and Jews,” David van Weel, the Dutch Minister of Justice and Security, wrote on X late last week as a violent, largely Muslim, mob rampaged through Amsterdam’s streets.