According to latest Intelligence reports, the LTTE has decided to attack bothmilitary and civilian targets in the South to disrupt civilian life as much aspossible . MI warns of an LTTE plan to attack several major citiessimultaneously (including Colombo and Kandy ) and cause widespread panic andfear among civilians . The WTC twin towers, Colombo harbor and the city ofKandy are said to be among primary targets of the LTTE . According to MI, LTTEintelligence cadres 'disguised as beggars', differently-abled people and salesrepresentatives have already been deployed to gather intel on these targets ....-Usama Abdul Cader [usama@wow.lk]
Sri Lanka’s foreign minister Gamini Lakshman Peiris rejected “colonial” criticism Tuesday of a government-appointed civil war probe, after foreign rights groups snubbed an invitation to attend. New York-based Human Rights Watch, London-based Amnesty International and Brussels-based International Crisis Group last week accused the panel of a cover-up and refused an offer from Colombo to appear before it. Peiris said in a speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a leading think-tank based in London, that the rights groups had displayed a “most unattractive attitude.” “It smacks of an attitude that is almost colonial, patronising and condescending, the assumption being that other people must step in because Sri Lankans are unable to chart a course for their own future,” he said. Peiris, who is in London for talks with the British government, said the LLRC was based on similar reconciliation commissions in countries such as South Africa. He urged rights groups and
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