Having turned its back on numerous opportunities for peace talks and opted to use nothing but the violence, the LTTE is now on the verge of being totally wiped out. Currently, the remaining fighters in the group have crept into the designated No-Fire Zone (NFZ) and are holding estimated 15,000 - 20,000 civilians as hostages.

The Sri Lankan military has launched a massive humanitarian operation to rescue these hostages, putting the lives of thousands of soldiers at stake to save these civilians. Already, about 120,000 civilians have escaped and recount horrible tales of how the LTTE cadres shoot and burn publicly those who try to escape.

We want peace and harmony in Sri Lanka and the way to go about doing it is to defeat the LTTE (which does not represent the Tamil people in the first place) and help in the healing and rehabilitation of the Tamils who were under the LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran’s mad rule for nearly three decades. Such results are already evident in the eastern province, liberated from the LTTE, where former LTTE cadres who have renounced violence are now part of mainstream democracy.

Many of the 45,000 Tamils who now call Australia home have family and friends who are held up by the LTTE as human shields in order to protect the leaders of the LTTE from the ongoing Sri Lankan Army’s humanitarian operation.

We as peace loving citizens call upon the Government of Australia and the Prime Minister of Australia:

* To immediately proscribe the LTTE as a terrorist organization;
* Not to be duped by the disinformation campaign the LTTE was carrying out all over the world;
* Not to allow the supporters of the LTTE to disrupt the normalcy in Australia by carrying out demonstrations, picketing and such other campaigns supporting the LTTE;
* To stop the fund raising campaigns by the supporters of the LTTE in the Australian soil;
* Cease the funds and properties of the Pro-LTTE organizations which contribute immensely to the misery of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka due to prolonged killings by the LTTE; and
* To rely only on credible information elicited from the Government of Sri Lanka;