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The arrest of seven soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and refusing to release them until two LTTE cadres arrested two weeks ago for breaking law by the Trincomalee Police has indicated to Ranil Wickremesinghe government and the rest of the world that the Tamil Tigers were not yet ready to give up all the terrorist tactics to achieve their political goals, opposition critics pointed out. The unarmed soldiers who were loading sand to an army truck for maintenance work of their camp from a dry bed of a canal were suddenly surrounded by armed LTTE cadres and taken prisoners, September 26, army sources said. The LTTE was de-proscribed as terrorist group just weeks ago, by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government amidst wide spread public protests against it. Despite all orchestrated headlines in Colombo newspapers and well-organized political rallies like the one the government held in Colombo by transporting plantation workers in thousands to Colombo with slogans hailing peace the LTTE would continue to use terrorist tactics, making people wary about the so called peace process critics charged. After listening to the LTTE conditions of getting two LTTE cadres released for the seven government soldiers from the Vilgam Vehera Sri Lanka army camp critics said the tactic was extremely a terrorist oriented one. The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission spokesman Teitur Tokelson said that the LTTE informed them the demand of releasing two in police custody in exchange of the seven abducted army soldiers. He said, “We have asked the LTTE to review their position as the Monitoring Mission has no authority to intervene in the law of the country.” The kidnapping of the soldiers took place close to the army detachment of Velgam Vehera , 9 kilometers north East of the port city of Trincomalee. (EOM) (02/09/29 go2lanka.com) |