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Lanka condemns Russian massacre as despicable
Sri Lanka yesterday strongly condemned the Russian school massacre as a dastardly act of terrorism. Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar in a letter to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, said that while condemning unreservedly these despicable acts of terrorism, Sri Lanka as a country subjected to similar threats of terrorism joined the international community in taking strong collective measures to overcome the global threat of terrorism.

Mr. Kadirgamar conveyed Sri Lanka's profound sympathy to those affected by the terrorist act. More than 322 children and adults died and many others among the 1,000 hostages were wounded when Russian crack troops stormed the school after unexplained explosions inside the school and the militants apparently began to shoot hostages.

World leaders, including US President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Musharraf of Pakistan, voiced revulsion and outrage over the bloody end to the Russian hostage crisis, calling it a tragedy which resulted from "depraved" and "evil" terrorist acts.

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