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SOME SPECULATE THAT PRABHAKARN IMPORTED AN AIRCRAFT OR TWO FOR MILITARY USE IN THE GUISE OF BRINGING IN COMRADE RAJU’S BODY By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles Many have widely speculated that the LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran has imported an aircraft in the guise of bringing in to the country the dead body of a comrade who died in a London hospital of cancer. Sri lanka navy troops have reported the landing of aircrafts near Mullaithivu during the early hours of September 5 but there are no reports of the aircrafts leaving Sri lanka. Since the aircrafts landed on Alampili seas it is believed the aircrafts are sea planes and their practical value is very high for LTTE’s military purposes. When the chief negotiator of the LTTE visited Sri Lanka he landed in a seaplane in the Iranavilu irrigation tank in Wanni. A September 6 security report of the Sri Lanka Army said “mysterious” aircraft with blinking lights was sighted by the Sri lanka navy troops on sea patrol in the general area of the Alampil seas about 12 kilometers South of Mullaithivu. Now it has been found that one of it was the sea plane which brought the body of LTTE military head called Raju (alias Rahu) who died in a London hospital of cancer. Security reports said Naval troops had sighted ‘ a suspicious aircraft with blinking lights from East to West twice on September 5 around 4.45 early in the morning. Photo of Prabhakaran paying last respects to Raju whose body was brought from London by a sea plane to Mullaithivu. The crying Tigress in the background is the wife of the deceased. The report said naval troops had further observed a boat belonging to the LTTE in the sea around the seas. There are no reports of the departure of the aircraft or aircrafts from Sri Lanka. Meanwhile an LTTE boat which had approached a naval craft on patrol in the sea off Mullaithivu on the same day had asked the naval craft to move away from that area since the LTTE men were engaged in live firing for three days throughout day and night . LTTE men had also asked naval craft to move at a distance of 10 nautical miles away from the beach. The security forces said Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission members on board of the naval craft were also informed about the incident. The Sri Lankan security forces do not know as yet, what else have been transported by the LTTE owned or hired air craft except the dead body of whom they call “Colonel” Raju. It has been speculated that Prabhakaran might have imported an aircraft or two for military purposes. The London based LTTE organ , The Tamil Guardian later published a photograph of LTTE ‘Thalaivar’ Velupillai Prabhakaran laying a garland on the casket of the dead LTTE military man and said he died of cancer. The newspaper however did not describe how his body had been brought to Wanni from London. The Tamil Guardian said , “Col. Raju was credited with many initiatives which helped transform the LTTE into a conventional army.” .According to the newspaper Raju had died on August 25. The newspaper said a crying woman in Tiger uniform in the published photograph was the dead man’s wife. Raju is also credited for the employment of child soldiers in the frontline of the army which, critics call the cannon fodder.(EOM) (02/09/13 go2lanka.com)

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