Conspiracy to save LTTE leaders unraveling in Sri Lanka

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Conspiracy to save LTTE leaders unraveling in Sri Lanka


Sun, May 17, 2009, 09:40 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
May 17, Colombo: An LTTE plot to save their hardcore leaders from capture by the security forces using a high-level international envoy is unraveling in Sri Lanka.

A highly placed government source said a monitored conversation of LTTE's chief negotiator Kumaran Pathmanadan, has revealed that the LTTE is planning to give the names of hardcore Tiger cadres to the high-level envoy as aid workers of UN and ICRC.

According to the sources a telephone call was placed to the envoy from Malaysia questioning whether he has obtained the list of names from the LTTE.

Informed sources say the high-level envoy is to hand over the list to the Sri Lankan government when he meets the government officials to secure the rescue of these senior LTTE cadres under the guise of international humanitarian aid workers.

If these Tiger cadres were killed during the military offensive the Sri Lankan government would be blamed for the deaths of humanitarian aid workers, the sources pointed out

 

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May 17, Colombo: Sri Lankan government today asked the people to hoist the national flag in each house and state institute on Monday to mark the victory achieved by the Sri Lankan Security Forces defeating the terrorism in the country.

The Government pointed out this would also be to pay tribute to those soldiers who sacrificed their lives and who are still fighting for the nation in the North.

This was the first time in the three-decades of war that the entire Northern Province was liberated, the government said.

It is a responsibility of the people in this country to pay their respects to the soldiers at this moment, the government pointed out