E/CN.4/1995/91 page 85 (whether civil and political or economic, social and cultural) of the Muslim, Tamil and Sinhalese people in all parts of the country. Considering the fact that the terrorist activity of LTTE has expanded and its potential extended beyond the territory of Sri Lanka, other countries have declared LTTE a terrorist organization. 1/ 4. With regard to civil and political rights, LTTE has systematically tried to prevent the holding of elections in the Northern and the Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka. In March 1994, despite LTTE threats of violence, the Government successfully held local government elections in the Eastern Province and in the Vavuniya district of the Northern Province so that voters could exercise their most cherished right. 4.1 The general elections to Parliament are scheduled to be held shortly, and once again LTTE is obstructing all efforts to enable the people of the north to cast their votes. Uncertain of their success in such a democratic process, LTTE has sought to impose its own rule by the use of force and by the elimination of democratic political opposition. 4.2 LTTE has consistently denied the people of the Northern Province their right to free expression, their right to participation in free and fair elections and the right to vote and to participation in the government of the country. 5. LTTE has similarly deprived the people of Sri Lanka of several other rights enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, including the right to life. The methods used by LTTE to impose their rule have violated the peoples’ right to freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention and the right to equal protection of the law. The rights of children and freedom from compulsory labour are violated by LTTE’s forced conscription of children into their ’training camps’ and ’armies’. These facts are well-documented both locally and internationally. This practice, as well as that of forced contributions and extortions from the population totally violate the call for prohibition on unlawful interference in an individual’s privacy and family. 6. Regardless of international human rights standards calling for the prohibition of advocating national racial or religious hatred, the thrust of LTTE propaganda is based on the advocacy of war and violence on these discriminatory grounds. This is best established in their practice of ’ethnic cleansing’ for forcibly evicting Muslims and Sinhalese living in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka. This practice has resulted in tens of thousands of displaced persons in the country. Similarly, the intolerance of LTTE based on religious grounds is proven in their gruesome attacks on two mosques in Kattankudi in the Eastern Province on 3 August 1990, in which 103 Muslims were killed in prayer. In 1985 one of the most revered and historical Buddhist sites in Sri Lanka was attacked in Anuradhapura, and 120 monks and worshippers were killed in the incident. 1/ India and the United States.