LTTE Suicide Bomb Kills Tamil Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle

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Sri Lanka's Tamil ethnic Minister of Highways & Road Development, Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, was killed in a suicide bomb blast by a LTTE terrorist at the public playground in Weliweraya, located in the Gampaha district of Western Province, around 8:00 a.m. Sunday(06). 12 persons were killed and more than 50 wounded in the attack that took place while the minister was waving a flag to start off a marathon race in connection with the Tamil and Sinhala New Year celebrations.

An athletic coach attached to the sports ministry, Luxman de Alvis, former Sri Lankan cyclist champion Karunaratne, and a police officer were also killed in the blast, according to initial reports.

The 55-year-old minister, who is also the chief government whip of the Sri Lankan parliament, has been elected to Sri Lankan parliament for five consecutive terms.

3 days ago, Mr. Fernandopulle led the ruling UPFA delegation in Trincomalee to field candidates for the upcoming Eastern Provincial Elections in which he had curtailed the number of nominees of paramilitary-cum-political party TMVP, from five to two, for the Trincomalee district.

He was a close associate of the Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa and played a key role in strengthening Sri Lanka's relationship with Iran since 2006, when he was the the minister of trade, commerce, consumer affairs and marketing development.

He was affluent in Sinhala, English and Tamil languages and functioned as a propaganda spokesman for the UPFA government.

Police claimed that the blast was caused by a suicide attacker, charging that the LTTE was behind the attack.

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Uploaded: April 6, 2008 at 1:26 pm
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Video Comments:
willesdon (September 17, 2008 at 4:45 pm)
tamil kill tamils
majority rules
Gabsy2k7 (August 9, 2008 at 2:56 am)
Dude You cant even visit your mothers land in peace i mean like last week i was in colombo and now im in london,i had the feeling being home and that but here you aint got that feeling.
Please i dont give shit if a ltte or a governer reads this msg
But....
Let there be peace in Sri lanka

May this land be in gods hand.
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Estimates something like 1500 civilians have been kidnapped and tortured by Sri Lankan gov.
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lamb105 (July 1, 2008 at 4:15 am)
this is just madness.war is just so lame.just bcos of them thousands of lifes were lost tat just a act of stupidness la
FuckLTTE83 (June 18, 2008 at 5:47 pm)
The killing of innocent civilians by the ltte have stopped because of the pressure by the international community.
ltte, in their 30 year old conflict to create a mono ethnic state in the north of Sri Lanka, has killed civilians when ever they were unable to take the beating from the SL army. Please stop funding ltte terrorism. for the ltte human life is worth less than an animals life..ltte is the most cowardice organization in the world, to employ such tactics.
shiznav08 (June 17, 2008 at 1:31 pm)
why are we all so bitter towards each other.. sri lanka is home to all races... ifwe sinhala's are racist then your just as bad with all these despicable slurs your throwing around.. you people hurling horrible remarks at each other isnt going to help anything.. no one can end this war. i pray that our heavenly father have mercy on sri lanka and all her people... tamil, sinhala, bhurger and muslim... only he can help us through!! save us lord jesus
thar777 (June 16, 2008 at 6:57 pm)
maha son of a sinhala bitch apparently 21 kms only but looks like a trek too far with tigers prowling!

KABOOM 21 racist sinhala cop dickheads headed to lala buddha land!

KABOOMS are coming to sinhala ratholes!

Quick get mahinda racist idiot sinhala to censor the news!

Very soon he will have to censor his racist fantasies n start telling the truth!OUCH!
MahasohonBrigade (July 22, 2008 at 1:21 pm)
Sri Lanka not to honor Tiger rebel truce offer


2008-07-22
COLOMBO, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan government said here Tuesday that it will not honor a call for a truce by the Tamil Tiger rebels.
"We will not abide by it and we will neither discuss it with anyone", Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama told.
THAT GREAT!
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ltte bitch asked for our BROWN chocolate color dicks and we reply="no bitch!"SLA are pimps,LTTE our bitches.a bitch MUST obey to her PIMP Lmao