An Appeal From NSSP of Sri Lanka to World Media to SAVE Those Who Are Being Abducted

The Nava Sama Samaja Party demands the immediate release of the comrades of the Frontline Socialist Party.

Dimuthu Attygalle and Kumar Gunarathnam

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - Foreword by Editor: We frequently carry stories about the struggle of the Tamil people of Sri Lanka. Colonized by Great Britain until 1948, they have suffered greatly as a minority culture under a majority Sinhalese Buddhist population.

This story is of particular importance, because it is about Sinhala people also suffering the same brutal retaliation that Tamils know so well, for simply taking a political stand that is 'unpopular' with the regime of Sri Lanka President Majinda Rajapaksa.

Real humanity is not influenced by nationalism, religion or culture. It has no boundaries and this is what archaic thinkers continually fail to understand. That is why so many Jews in Israel do not support the occupation of Palestine, and so many Sinhalese Lankans do not support the oppression and Genocide of Tamil Hindus and Christians. We stand in solidarity with all Sinhalese humanitarians who support the Tamil population.
- Tim King, Salem-News.com

Dear Friends,
Kindly copy this urgent message of the NSSP to all your networks.
Linus Jayatilake

NAVA SAMA SAMAJA PARTY

URGENT MESSAGE TO FOURTH INTERNATIONAL AND ITS SECTIONS

Two leaders of the Frontline Socialist Party (JVP dissident group) Kumar Gunarathnam and Dimuthu Attygalle (Women and International Affairs secretary) were separately abducted in the early hours of Saturday 7 April 2012 from Kiribathgoda and Godagama respectively (suburbs of Colombo)

They are prominent representatives of a new Left party that has broken away from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in opposition to coalition politics and in solidarity with the Tamil peoples struggle for justice and equality.

Kumar Gunarathnam, who is of Tamil origin, was a longstanding leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, who has been in hiding from the authorities since the split with the JVP. Dimuthu Attygalle, is also a former member of the JVP politburo and leader of its women's front and former elected member of an urban council.

The timing of their abduction is directly related to the forthcoming inaugural conference of the Frontline Socialist Party on 9 April 2012. It is a clear attempt to intimidate and discourage the members and sympathisers of this new socialist party. This heinous act follows the disappearance of two Tamil-origin activists of the party, Lalith and Kugan, in Jaffna in December 2011 whose whereabouts and safety is still unknown.

The Nava Sama Samaja Party demands the immediate release of the comrades of the Frontline Socialist Party; and for all acts of intimidation and harassment of their political activities to end forthwith. We call upon Left parties across the world to organise solidarity actions in front of Sri Lankan embassies and missions and to send messages of protest to the Sri Lankan authorities.