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resolution 1994/46, as well as for distributing it as an official
document of the fifty-first session of the Commission on Human Rights to
all member and non-member States, and to observers.
13.
I am annexing some relevant statistics on civilian casualties,
politicians killed and bomb explosions as a result of LTTE terrorism."
"VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS PERPETRATED
BY THE LTTE TERRORIST GROUP
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have violated the
right to life, killing civilians of all religious and ethnic groups and
targeting men, women and even children in their terrorist attacks carried
out in Sri Lanka and abroad. Annexes (a), (b) and (c) give specific
details of the massacres of civilians, of politicians killed and bomb
explosions carried out by LTTE.
The LTTE massacre of 62 Sinhalese settlers at the Dollar and Kent
Farms in Vavuniya on 30 November 1984 was followed by the massacre of
villagers engaged in fishing at Kokilai and Nayaru on 1 December.
In May 1985, LTTE gunned down 120 Buddhist pilgrims worshipping at
the Scared Bo Tree in Anuradhapura (a sapling of the tree in Buddhagaya
under which the Buddha attained enlightenment) and injuring about
85 others engaged in worship at one of the most scared religious
sites in the country. In 1987 LTTE massacred 30 Buddhist priests and
4 civilians travelling in a bus for a religious ordination ceremony;
another 15 Buddhist priests were injured in this attack.
Not only Buddhist but Muslim places of worship have also been
desecrated. In 1990 LTTE terrorists opened fire on Muslims praying in
two mosques at Kattankudy, killing 103 and wounding 70.
Almost all of these attacks were carried out with a premeditated
and cynical brutality hitherto unknown in Sri Lanka. Women and children
were not spared. In the attack at Mahadivulwewa on 27 May 1986, of the
20 Sinhalese killed 10 were children, the youngest a 14-month-old boy.
Brutal methods and horrifying mutilations were inflicted in order to
drive terror into the people. LTTE exploded a bomb killing 110 civilians
and injuring 298 others at the Pettah central bus stand in 1984, at the
height of the rush hour. In November the same year, LTTE set off a
car-bomb killing 23 civilians and injuring 106 outside the Maradana
central railway station, at the peak traffic hour.
LTTE is also well known for its internecine warfare and attacks on
all other Tamil political groups, to annihilate opposition. It has
systematically eliminated key Tamil political leaders, beginning with
Major Alfred Duraiappa in 1975, and others such as A. Amirthalingam, a
former leader of the opposition, and V. Yogeswaran of the TULF 2/ and
Sam Thambimuttu EPRLF, 2/ Member of Parliament. These acts have been
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Tamil political parties.