In the first two days, copies of letters and statements of protest have been sent to the WSWS from the US, Europe, Australia and Japan. Press releases have been sent to news organizations around the world. The World Socialist Web Site has launched an international campaign, calling on human rights and civil rights organizations, labor organizations and all individuals committed to the defense of democratic rights to demand the immediate release of Sambandan and Naguleshwaran. The SEP of Sri Lanka and its fraternal parties in North America, Europe and Asia have sent urgent letters to the LTTE leadership, based in London, demanding information on the location and condition of the two comrades, as well as guarantees of their safety. Ominously, he suggested that the LTTE police might have already carried out retribution against them.Д«ecause of the acute political and military situation in Sri Lanka, it is impossible for SEP leaders in Colombo to travel to Kilinochchi, which is cut off from the capital by military roadblocks manned at different points by the Sri Lankan military and the LTTE. He virtually admitted that their seizure was for political reasons, saying the SEP's politics were obstructing LTTE activities. The LTTE official, Theepan, acknowledged to the relatives of the arrested men that he was aware of their political affiliation.

Their arrest was a flagrant act of repression, and the LTTE is notorious for eliminating its political opponents. These two socialists are in grave danger. However after ten days, they have not reappeared. A leading official of the LTTE in the region told relatives of the detainees that they would be released after two days of interrogation. Thirugnana Sambandan and Kasinathan Naguleshwaran, members of the Socialist Equality Party of Sri Lanka, were seized on the evening of July 28 as they were posting SEP placards in the northern town of Kilinochchi. The LTTE has failed, however, to respond to these protests, nor have the relatives or comrades of the two men seized by LTTE police been informed of their condition or whereabouts, or the charges, if any, levied against them. Statements and letters from around the world have been faxed to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) protesting the July 28 arrest of two Tamil socialists in an LTTE-controlled region in the north of Sri Lanka.

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