Colombo, Sri Lanka: It is said that the country is moving towards a war situation. But the reality is the war has begun. Although the government and the LTTE have not declared they have abrogated the Ceasefire Agreement, the reality is that there is a war.

When this undeclared war intensifies, it s the ordinary people who will be affected most. Innocent people are killed in North-East and in the south.

The recent claymore attack on a bus at Keppetigolawa claiming more than 60 lives was one in the chain of incidents of violence in recent times. But the prominence given to the Keppitagollawe incident was not given to the earlier incidents.

The LTTE, accused of the Keppitagollawe violence by the government, also issued a statement condemning the incident. The hardliners of the South warn that if the government does not take stern measures other than limited air strikes the people of the south may take the law into their own hands. They demand a full scale war launched against the LTTE.

President Rajapakse who visited Keppitagolawa personally summoned the Security Council last Sunday and discussed security measures to ensure the security of the border villages. Meanwhile Ranil Wickremasinghe, the Leader of the UNP has expressed concern over the security of the border villages and has launched a program to issue, sirens to them.

We are entitled to ask the Leaders of the south what concern they had expressed at the violence in Tamil areas such as Manipay, Allaipitty, Nelliady, Puthur, Trincomalee, Mannar and so on. The people from the South, including leaders and the media, do not seem to be concerned at the sufferings of the Tamils.

Appeals against air strikes on innocent civilians, seem not to have moved the government despite condemnation by the international community.

An English translation of the Editorial in Thinakkural , a Tamil National daily, based in Colombo

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