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Home > Struggle for Tamil Eelam > Sri Lanka's Broken Pacts & Evasive Proposals > Chandrika - LTTE Talks: 1994/95 > Letter from LTTE leader Velupillai Pirabaharan to President Kumaratunga, 18 April 1995
18 April 1995
Dear President,
Thank you for your letter dated 12th April 1996.
Having given careful and serious consideration to the contents of your communication. We regret to state that your responses and reactions to the urgent issues we raised fall short of our expectations and therefore, are unsatisfactory.
After a great deal of persuasion and dialogue, which lasted for more than six months, we were able to elicit from you a positive decision with regard to the relaxation of the embargo on fuel and other items. Though a decision to this effect has been made earlier and intimated to us in your letter of 24th March 1995, we are disappointed to note that deliberate delays have been caused in the process of implementation with the aim to off-set, our deadline.
In so far as the other issues are concerned your responses are partial, elusive, non-committal and subjected to determinations of further dialogue.
Apart from partial relaxation, the prohibition on large areas of fishing zones continues to operate, though you have pledged to remove all restrictions on fishing in your letter of 24th March.
On the most critical issues of opening a passage to Jaffna by removing the Pooneryn army camp and the mobility of our armed cadres in Eastern Province, your decisions are unacceptable to us since they have been subjected to review in future discussions.
The manner in which these critical issues have been side-tracked demonstrates the fact that your Government is not acting in good faith to create genuine conditions of peace and normalcy but rather seeks to promote the interests of the military.
Furthermore, we are convinced beyond doubt, that your Government is making every effort to strengthen and consolidate the military capability of the armed forces under the guise of the current cessation of hostilities, violating the very terms of the agreement that insists on the maintenance of the status quo.
Since the above mentioned issues are not resolved to our satisfaction within the time frame set out in our deadline of 1st April 1995, we are left with no choice other than to take a painful decision to discontinue our participation in the negotiating process and from the cessation of hostilities from the stipulated date as we have indicated to you earlier.
We regret this unfortunate situation
Yours Sincerely
(V. Pirabaharan)
Leader
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
