Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran on Tuesday accused the international community of failing his rebel group and said they were partly to blame for Sri Lanka's killing of a top aide in an air force bombing raid.
Prabhakaran said he had no hope of a political settlement with the Sri Lankan government, and exhorted the entire Tamil-speaking world to back the rebels' fight for an independent state in the north and east of the island. "This partisan and unjust conduct of the international community has severely undermined the confidence our people had in them," Prabhakaran said in an annual "Heroes' Day" address to commemorate slain rebel fighters. "And it has paved the way for the breakdown of the ceasefire and the peace efforts."
"The international community's economic and military aid, its moral and political support, its diplomatic efforts, and its one-sided involvement directly aided this turn of events," Prabhakaran said.
He accused Nordic truce monitors of covering their eyes and tying their hands behind their backs, and said the island's main donors, the United States, Norway, Japan and the European Union, of failing in their responsibility. "By only paying lip-service to peace, the international community has contributed to the killing of an extraordinary son of our nation," he added, referring to former political wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan, killed in an air raid this month.
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