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LTTE CADRES OPEN FIRE ON TAMILS SUSPECTED OF PROVIDING INFORMATION TO SRI LANKA ARMY IN THE EASTERN PROVINCE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles Despite the ceasefire agreement signed with the government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam cadres opened fire and exploded grenades in an attack against four former Tamil militants who were suspected of providing information to the Sri Lanka Army’s Intelligence Unit. Police reports said gunmen who had been identified as cadres of the terrorist group the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam opened fire on four former members of the militant group TELO in the Kathankudi area in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. Analysts say under the special commandership of the LTTE military leader Karuna the LTTE is concentrating on the elimination of Tamils who support the government of Sri Lanka in the area. Two former members of the TELO, Seenithambi Udayakumar and Samithambi Murugadas were admitted to the Polonnaruwa Hospital with serious gun shot injuries on the Christmas day after this alleged violence by the Tamil Tigers. The shooting and attack by grenades allegedly took place in side a shop at a place called Ariyampathi in the Kathankudy police area. But the police said two other former members of the TELO , Thilakeshwaran and Thambiraja Sinnaraja who were with the injured escaped without getting hurt in this incident. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has been also consolidating its military power in the Eastern Province by abducting teenagers and sending them to training camps during the last few days. The Norway led Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission in Batticaloa has received complaints from Tamil parents and army authorities in the area that during the last seven days 11 youth had been abducted by the Tamil Tigers. But parents said they received no assistance from the Monitoring Mission in getting back their abducted children. Meanwhile three school kids who escaped from the LTTE’s Tharawi military training camp in the Thoppigala military complex in the Eastern Province said there were about 40 kidnapped school girls being trained in that camp. Altogether eight girls escaped from the camp and three surrendered to the Sri Lanka Army in Batticaloa and were later handed over to the Batticaloa police. The three girls Tangiah Ranipa, Deivanayagam Shashikala, and Krishnapillai Thamilselvi had been residents of Thrukkovil - Rupaskulam area of the Eastern Province. They said they were kidnapped by LTTE recruiters while coming home after school. Declaring they did not have any intention of joining the LTTE and recruited against their free will, the girls further said they were poorly fed at the Tiger camp and put into rigorous military training that they hated. The other five girls who escaped went towards Valaichchenai they revealed. Police said the three girls had been sent to a Gangodawila Home of kidnapped Girls for safety. (EOM) (26/12/02 go2lanka.com) |