SRI LANKA MONITORING MISSION GIVES TEN DAYS NOTICE TO THE TAMIL TIGERS TO DISMANTLE THE WAN ELA ILLEGAL LTTE MILITARY CAMP
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
August 26.09.40 AM:Informed sources said that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam would change their earlier decisions and dismantle the illegally built Wan Ela military camp.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam will reconsider their earlier decision not to dismantle the Wan Ela military camp built in Sri Lanka government controlled area, under international pressure.
Retired Major General Tryggve Teleffsen, head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission informed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam that they were giving official notice of ten days for the Tamil terrorist group to remove the illegally built Wan Ela military camp in the Sri Lanka government controlled area in Kinniya near the port city of Trincomalee.
Teleffsen, who visited Eastern Province LTTE military leaders Thilak and Paduman informed them within ten days from August 24 the military camp which the LTTE preferred to call Kurangupanjan Kulam and the Norway backed SLMM called Wan Ela should be dismantled according to the verdict given by the SLMM earlier.
The LTTE political head, S.P. Thamilchelvan openly defied the ruling of the monitors and refused even to budge an inch from the illegal construction. Visits by Norway’s special envoy Eric Solheim and the LTTE’s favorite Jon Westborg could not sway them from their earlier determination.
Thamilchelvan, in public statements to the press advised the government that they should set aside the wan ela problem since it was created by the newspapers of the South. The rebel group in a series of false stories planted in the US websites Lankapage and Colombo page said the newly built LTTE military camp was in the LTTE controlled area in the Eastern province. of Sri Lanka.
Teleffsen said the LTTE agreed to allow SLMM monitors to visit the camp and monitor what was happening.
The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission said the LTTE also agreed to let any monitor visit the camp on the 10th day to see whether the SLMM order has been carried out.
SLMM also said Teleffsen also visited the commander of the 22nd Regiment to discuss the illegal construction of a LTTE bunker beyond their forward defense line at Welioya.
