LTTE ’ s rebel faction goes public on grievances
hindustantimes.com,
March 4.
Even as the Leader of the LTTE’s Political Wing, SP Tamilselvan, declared in Kilinochchi on Thursday that the crisis in his organisation was “temporary” and that it would be resolved “soon”, the rebel faction in the Batticaloa-Amparai district led by Senior Commander Colonel Karuna, went public on its “grievances.”
Tamilnet website quotes Tamilselvan as telling the visiting Head of the Scandinavian-staffed Sri Lanka (Ceasefire) Monitoring Mission (SLMM), Maj.Gen.Trond Furuhovde, that the LTTE chief, Velupillai Prabhakaran was engaged in discussions on the matter with the leaders of the Batticaloa-Amparai area such as Special Commander Ramesh and Batticalao district political wing head, Kausalyan.
Colonel Karuna’s daily newspaper “Tamil Alai”, coming out of Kokkadicholai in Batticaloa district, also played down the conflict. It said on Thursday that the reports about a “split” in the LTTE were spread by people wanting to create “panic and fear” in the public mind and that the Batticalao-Amparai unit indeed was functioning with commitment to the LTTE’s cause under the “command of our national leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and the guidance of Commander Col Karuna.”
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Published: Thu Mar 4 22:01:13 EST 2004
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Tigers seek defence pact with Sri Lanka
dailytimes.com.pk,
March 4, 2004.
COLOMBO: A regional Tamil Tiger commander who broke away from the main guerrilla organisation on Thursday has asked for a defence pact and a truce with Sri Lankan security forces, defence officials and rebels said.
The new faction of the Tamil Tigers led by the group’s eastern commander, V. Muralitharan, better known as Karuna, called for an agreement to replace the current Norwegian-brokered truce, officials and rebels close to Karuna said. Rebel sources in the eastern district of Batticaloa where Karuna is in control said they were awaiting a response from the authorities to their request following a split with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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Published: Thu Mar 4 23:36:31 EST 2004
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