Slain Lankan Minister's wife, Mrs Shyama Goonaratne and two others, who were among 60 people injured in the blast, succumbed to their injuries on Thursday (8 June 2000) taking the number of victims to 25. |
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Today, 7 June 2000, around 1:45pm Sri Lanka time, the Minister for Industries Honourable C.V. Gunerathna was assassinated by a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber in Sri Lanka. A career politician, Mr Gunararthna was a cabinet member in the governing Peoples Alliance party. We urge you, the International Community, to condemn this brutality of the Tamil Tiger terrorists unreservedly, as we feel that the terror unleashed by Prabhakaran has reached a Nadia. A civilised country with a proud history of over 2500 years is held to ransom by the manic terrorist, Prabhakaran.
We urge the international community to:
The time has come for western democracies to unreservedly support Sri Lanka as it fights to protect the freedom of its people and the functioning of its democratic institutions. This is not a time to waver. With the coup in Fiji and Solomon Islands, the United Nations especially the security council is under pressure to demonstrate its will to protect democracy in the free world. Do not let Sri Lanka’s democracy wither in the vine.
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