Australian Senate condemns Anuradhapura suicide bomb attack
The Upper House of the Australian Parliament, the
Senate has passed a Resolution condemning the LTTE suicide bomb attack
in Anuradhapura on 06th October, in which 28 people were killed,
including the former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia, retired
Major General Janaka Perera and his wife.
The President of the Senate, Senator John Hogg has in
a letter dated 20th October, transmitted the text of the Resolution to
the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia, Senaka Walgampaya PC,
which inter alia states as follows:
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(a) condemns the terrorist attack in the north of
Sri Lanka on 6 October 2008, which killed 28 people and injured more
than 80 people;
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(b) notes and expresses its sadness at the
assassination in this attack of the former Sri Lankan High
Commissioner to Australia, retired Major General Janaka Perera and
his wife;
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(c) notes the significant contribution that Major
General Perera made as Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to Australia;
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(d) expresses its condolences to retired Major
General Perera's four children, three of whom live in Australia;
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(e) condemns all acts of terrorism and the use of
child soldiers in the conflict.
Steve Hutchins, Senator for New South Wales and Chair
of the Australia-Sri Lanka Parliamentary Friendship Group presented the
notice of motion on 13th October which was agreed to by the Senate on
16th October. The Senate Resolution clearly reflects the deep aversion
of the Australian legislature to the brutal acts of terrorism committed
by the LTTE in Sri Lanka.
Courtesy: Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
