[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]The LTTE procured most of their arms from the former Soviet Republic of Ukraine as well as China, a former rebel commander has said. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]"The LTTE purchased most of its weapons from Ukraine," Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, best known as Col. Karuna Amman said. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]"There were many other supply sources in Asia and Africa, but the main source was Ukraine," the stocky Karuna, a former bodyguard to slain Velupillai Prabhakaran told Japan's Kyodo News in an interview in his tightly guarded office here. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Asked if North Korea was a supplier, Karuna, the former LTTE military commander, now minister for National Integration and Reconciliation in President Mahinda Rajapaksa's government, said there was a lot of talk about procuring arms from the country, but those efforts never succeeded. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif] But other well-informed military sources in Colombo quoted by Kyodo said on condition of anonymity that the LTTE had obtained Chinese arms with North Korean end-user certificates. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]"An investigation team from Japan was here in this connection some months ago and met with very senior officials," one of the sources said, adding that "Tokyo knows the facts." [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Karuna, a vice president of Rajapaksa's Sri Lanka Freedom Party, said most of the arms used by the LTTE were of Russian and Chinese manufacture.
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[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]"The LTTE purchased most of its weapons from Ukraine," Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, best known as Col. Karuna Amman said. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]"There were many other supply sources in Asia and Africa, but the main source was Ukraine," the stocky Karuna, a former bodyguard to slain Velupillai Prabhakaran told Japan's Kyodo News in an interview in his tightly guarded office here. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Asked if North Korea was a supplier, Karuna, the former LTTE military commander, now minister for National Integration and Reconciliation in President Mahinda Rajapaksa's government, said there was a lot of talk about procuring arms from the country, but those efforts never succeeded. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif] But other well-informed military sources in Colombo quoted by Kyodo said on condition of anonymity that the LTTE had obtained Chinese arms with North Korean end-user certificates. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]"An investigation team from Japan was here in this connection some months ago and met with very senior officials," one of the sources said, adding that "Tokyo knows the facts." [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Karuna, a vice president of Rajapaksa's Sri Lanka Freedom Party, said most of the arms used by the LTTE were of Russian and Chinese manufacture.
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