Head of LTTE's 'military' intelligence wing Shanmuganathan Ravishankar, alias Charles is reported killed along with three other terrorists following an ambush by SL elite forces, at general area North of Mannar, yesterday (January 05) evening, reported pro-LTTE news sources.
This time it was Charles, a self styled "Colonel" and head of LTTE's 'military' intelligence wing and, deputy of Pottu Amman. Wanni sources, say he was killed caught in a military ambush while travelling on a van.
The attack is believed to have reverberated into the Wanni heartland causing fear and anxiety among the senior LTTE profiles, at a time where the security forcing are knocking the doors to Kilinochchi.
Charles has led many heinous attacks targeting vital commercial installations and property resulting in may innocent deaths and casualties, defence sources said.
He was also known to have master minded assassinations of few VIPs, senior military officials and democratic Political Tamil leaders.
Last Wednesday, LTTE terrorists triggered a claymore blast in Slave Island, Colombo killing five including two school children and an Army officer, while injuring 23 others.
And last November 02, Thamil Chelvan, then head of LTTE's 'political' unit, was killed when he was hit by an aerial bomb in a SLAF launched attack while hiding inside an underground bunker.
Defence analysts predict a major friction in LTTE leadership especially between Praba's successor Charles Antony and Pottu Amman, has leveraged flow of information to security forces.
Citing intelligence sources, military earlier declared that Velupillai Prabhakaran had sustained injuries in an air strike carried out by four SLAF fighter craft on an LTTE bunker complex in Jayanthinagar, Kilinochchi 26th November 2007.
Earlier Defence Secretary Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared in a news interview that, LTTE movements were no secret to the SL intelligence circuits. Sending an alert to the Wanni leadership to renounce violence he said, "We are after Prabakaran. We are specifically targeting their leadership."
