LTTE Suicide Bomb Kills Tamil Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle

Sri Lanka's Tamil ethnic Minister of Highways & Road Development, Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, was killed in a suicide bomb blast by a LTTE terrorist at the public playground in Weliweraya, located in the Gampaha district of Western Province, around 8:00 a.m. Sunday(06). 12 persons were killed and more than 50 wounded in the attack that took place while the minister was waving a flag to start off a marathon race in connection with the Tamil and Sinhala New Year celebrations.

An athletic coach attached to the sports ministry, Luxman de Alvis, former Sri Lankan cyclist champion Karunaratne, and a police officer were also killed in the blast, according to initial reports.

The 55-year-old minister, who is also the chief government whip of the Sri Lankan parliament, has been elected to Sri Lankan parliament for five consecutive terms.

3 days ago, Mr. Fernandopulle led the ruling UPFA delegation in Trincomalee to field candidates for the upcoming Eastern Provincial Elections in which he had curtailed the number of nominees of paramilitary-cum-political party TMVP, from five to two, for the Trincomalee district.

He was a close associate of the Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa and played a key role in strengthening Sri Lanka's relationship with Iran since 2006, when he was the the minister of trade, commerce, consumer affairs and marketing development.

He was affluent in Sinhala, English and Tamil languages and functioned as a propaganda spokesman for the UPFA government.

Police claimed that the blast was caused by a suicide attacker, charging that the LTTE was behind the attack.

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• LTTE
• Terrorist
• Suicide
• Bomb
• Tamil
• Jeyaraj
• Fernandopulle
• Tamileelam

[willesdon]

tamil kill tamils

majority rules

[DUTTYWINE1TIME69]

shutup u singhlese w.e im indian hindi what singhalese are doing to da tamils are what nazis did to jews

[karthikeya81]

well said buddy and thanks heaps for talking the truth and standing by us,when needed most for the right cause.yes its genocide whats happening in srilanka against tamils,i too used to feel ltte was wrong earlier,but then hearing it from tamil victims by srilankan army n the sinhalese.i strongly support the tamils in srilanka.these videos are basically to malign their name and their struggle.remember even if ltte is over one day,there will be 100more new groups formed to kill all sinhalese.

[sooneelam]

What Karuna can do is ask eveyone tamil to stand in line and give everyone a blow job.....lol!

[Elephant1960]

Shut the fuck up Duttywine. LTTE are the ones to blame for all this mess.

[colombo11111]

Oh! GOD our hard earned money.

I sent $200 every month to Prabakaran for the last 10 years totaling $24,000.

What happened to all of them? They are all gone in the drain.

I can build a new house in the North for that money.

SL army please dont break all the buildings and the houses.

When the war is over Canada will pack all the refugees back to Sri Lanka.

We have to come back to Sri Lanka and live in the North.

Karuna please help all the Tamils.

[Shehancold]

Best Response Eva!!!! Tamilz can burn in hell dumb stuck up fags.

[ishan9212w]

all i know iz that the tamil tigers are gay retardz that have their heads shoved up their ass and i know that thar777 is a fukin fagg

[Gabsy2k7]

Dude You cant even visit your mothers land in peace i mean like last week i was in colombo and now im in london,i had the feeling being home and that but here you aint got that feeling.

Please i dont give shit if a ltte or a governer reads this msg

But....

Let there be peace in Sri lanka

May this land be in gods hand.