North - South :

Axis of Evil

From the News Desk

LTTE Political Wing Chief Nadesan in an interview with the media last Wednesday is reported to have said that the LTTE would target strategically important economic targets in the South in an effort to disperse the Security forces and ease the pressure on them.

He is also reported to have told the BBC that even if Kilinochchi falls they would continue fighting. Political analysts are of the opinion that the LTTE facing certain defeat at the hands of the security forces would shift their main strategy to economic sabotage.

The LTTE have attacked strategic economic targets such as the Katunayake International Airport, the Central Bank, the Petroleum Complex at Kolonnawa during the nearly three decade-old war with the Government. It was in this context that President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday warned that malicious elements that depend on the LTTE for survival have already begun to create political unrest by creating many problems for the Government.

Speaking in the same vein a few days ago, the Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake also warned of a conspiracy to undermine state revenue

Meanwhile, Opposition forces in the South are conducting a parallel campaign to undermine the economy through various means and cause panic among the population in an attempt to destabilise the Government.

This includes attempts to make the country ungovernable.