The dark memories during the terrorism psychosis cannot be erased from the hearts of the people. It is mainly due to the massive destruction imbibed with brutality and stained with blood being unleashed in the country.
This hemorrhage would have continued within the country if terrorism that was a mortal threat and which was fast spreading like pestilence, was not vanquished.
The terrorists mooted an attack in the Palaly area on 26th March 1987 killing two war heroes, thus beginning their activities of unleashing violence on 26th March during the dark era insulting humanity. On 26th March in 1991, two more war heroes who were caught up in a terrorist attack in the Muttur area sacrificed their lives on behalf of the country.
Their next target in the year 1993 on a day like today was Manipai. Lurking in this area, the terrorists attacked a group of war heroes killing three soldiers. In another terrorist attack at Etambagaskada in Vavuniya on 26th March 1994, the ruthless tiger terrorists mooted an attack killing two brave soldiers. Shocking the country in another gruesome attack, the terrorists opened fire at a group of farmers engaged in farming in the Vadamarachchi area on 26th March 2007, thus murdering three of them in the farmland itself.
Four war heroes died when the terrorists exploded a claymore mine in the Suleina Marandamadu area on 26th March 2008, while on the same day, the ruthless tigers mooted another attack in the Kiri-ibbanwewa area in Welioya bumping off two war heroes. Several attacks were unleashed by the merciless terrorists in Mullaitivu, Puthukudiyiruppu, Kilinochchi and Iranamadu area. As a result 17 brave soldiers made supreme sacrifices on behalf of the unity of the motherland.
Terrorism which plagued the country in this manner was eliminated root and branch at the Nanthikadal Lagoon on 18th May 2009. By then the total number of lives taken away by the terrorists on 26th March throughout the dark era was 46. They had killed six innocent civilians and 40 war heroes.
Members of the Security Forces succeeded in enthroning peace in the country making supreme sacrifices due to the bold and direct decisions taken by President Rajapaksa without yielding to certain local as well as extraneous forces and also due to the proper guidance of Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. The freedom was gained through many dedications.
But certain local as well as foreign forces are determined to plunge the country into a chaotic situation destroying the peace that has been achieved. These groups are making false allegations that fundamental rights had been transgressed.
They are not talking even a word on the human rights protected by the gallant soldiers giving priority to humanity even in the battlefield. It is simply not because they are not clearly aware of it but mainly due to their deceitfulness. No one murmurs a word on the human rights blatantly flouted by powerful countries such as Britain and the United States. Their only effort is to impress upon a Government which injected life to the civilians, ensuring their right to live, ending terrorism.
Whatever the efforts and desires of these forces are, the patriotic fraternity of the country will not permit them to rise against the motherland. They had clearly displayed not only by words but also by deeds.
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