SL Citizens commemorate their Muslim Brethren Massacred at Eravur

Sri Lankan citizens today commemorate their Muslim brethren who were brutally massacred seventeen years ago at the Saddam Hussein Muslim Village at Eravur by the LTTE terrorists.

On the 12th August in 1990, the LTTE terrorists stormed the Saddam Hussein Village in the midnight and killed 121 Muslim civilians including many children. The incident was seen as one of the most horrendous ethnic cleansing raids carried out by the LTTE terrorists against Muslims living in the North and the Eastern provinces. All the victims of the massacre had been chopped and tortured to death by the LTTE terrorists acting on the orders of their psychopathic leader V. Prhakaran.

Citizens in the Eastern province today have staged a peaceful Hartal to show their grief over the relatives they lost in the heinous crime. All the shops are observed to be closed and white flags and banners are seen hoisted in the Kaththankudy , Eravur and Batticaloa areas. Special religious ceremonies have also been arranged to commemorate the victims.

The LTTE is a terror outfit that has been fighting for a mono ethnic separate homeland for the Tamils living in the Island since 1983. During its two decades of terror campaign the LTTE has killed thousands of Muslim and Sinhalese civilians in their ethnic cleansing raids at the villages in the North and Eastern provinces. During this period the terrorists have been able drive away thousands of Muslims and Sinhalese from their native places in the North, turning large part of the Northern Province into a mono ethnic hellhole.

In 1990, the 03rd of August the LTTE terrorists ran amok desecrating wholly Meera Jumma and Husseniya mosques at Kaththankudy causing deaths to over 130 devotees including children who had been engaged in the evening prayers.

On 11th August, 1990 massacred 104 Muslims consisting of 45 men, 28 women and 31 children using T-56 assault rifles, knives and razors. By the 20th of August, 1990 over 450 Muslims were killed by the savage LTTE in a continuing ethnic cleansing raid, against the Muslim community in the east.

In the most recent incident LTTE terrorists detained over 100 Muslim refugees who had been fleeing into the government controlled area when the terrorists launched attacks at Muttur town in 2006.