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As a plan agreed upon by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Ranil Wickremesinghe government with the collaboration of the Attorney General’s Department to give in to the Tiger demands and resolve the hostage problem of six soldiers two LTTE cadres in police custody filed applications for bail in the Appeals Court. Reporters in Colombo said Madhavan Wasanthan, and Kandasamy Ramasamy, the two armed LTTE cadres taken into custody by the Kantalai police near Mollipotana in the Eastern Province have filed their applications in the Appeals Court requesting bail. The Officer in charge of the Kantalai Police station and the Attorney General have been cited as the respondents of the application. When the case is taken up the Attorney General would not object to the application, it is speculated. As originally demanded by the terrorist group when this is done the hostages taken by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam would be released, informed sources told this correspondent. The Trincomalee magistrate remanded the two LTTE cadres taken into custody by the Kantalai Police until October 10. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, despite the largely ceremonial peace talks it was having with the Ranil Wickremesinghe government took an extra judiciary method of kidnapping seven Sri Lanka government soldiers and demanded that the two LTTE cadres be released as a condition to the release of the hostages. Meanwhile, the LTTE released one soldier on humanitarian ground that he had to donate blood to his gravely ill child. The six remaining soldiers would be released as soon as the two LTTE cadres are released, as originally demanded when the hostages were taken. . By kidnapping the seven soldiers the LTTE brought home the fact that its former terrorist tactics were still valid and carried weight even during a ceasefire agreement backed by the world’s super power, the United States of America. (EOM) (02/10/08 go2lanka.com) |