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Sri Lankan bishops repeat call for 'peace zone' after terror attack

Church leaders in Sri Lanka have repeated demands for a "peace zone" around the popular Roman Catholic shrine at Madhu near Mannar in the north of the country after an anti-personnel mine killed 18 Catholics and injured many more near the religious site, reports Ecumenical News International. "It is sad that the government and the LTTE [Tamil rebels] have not responded positively to the repeated requests to declare the area around the Madhu church as a peace zone," stated Anglican Bishop Duleep de Chickera of Colombo. The blast on 29 January took place in a region of Sri Lanka under the control of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who are fighting for autonomy for Tamil-majority areas in the north and east of the island.

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[02/06/2008]

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