Tamil Tigers breakaway chief arrested in Britain

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LONDON (AFP) - Colonel Karuna, the leader of a breakaway faction of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers rebel group, has been arrested in Britain and is being held in immigration detention, the interior ministry said Friday.
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Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, better known as Colonel Karuna, was arrested in an operation carried out by Britain's immigration authority and the London police, the Home Office said.

Karuna, the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)'s former eastern commander, led an unprecedented split from the group in March 2004 and is said to be collaborating with government forces against the main guerrilla outfit.

"Karuna Amman has been arrested following a joint operation between the Border and Immigration Agency and the Metropolitan Police," the Home Office said in a statement to AFP.

"He is now being held in immigration detention it would not be appropriate to comment further."

London's Metropolitan Police and the British high commission (embassy) in Colombo have both declined comment.

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Sri Lankan rebel breakaway leader held in UK


Sri Lankan rebel breakaway leader held in UK
Reuters, November 2. LONDON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - British police and immigration officials have arrested a breakaway leader from Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, the government said on Friday.

Karuna Amman was arrested following a joint operation between Britain's new Border and Immigration Agency and London police, a Home Office (interior ministry) statement said.

"He is now being held in immigration detention (and) it would not be appropriate to comment further," it said.

The Home Office gave no details of where or when Karuna was arrested or what would happen to him

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Breakaway leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels arrested in Britain

LONDON: A breakaway leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels has been arrested in Britain, the government said Saturday.

The Home Office said Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, also known as Col. Karuna, was detained in a joint operation by police and immigration officials.

A spokesman said he was being held in immigration detention, but refused to say where he was detained or whether Sri Lanka would begin extradition proceedings.

Karuna was a top leader of the Tamil Tigers, who have been fighting for more than two decades for a homeland for the minority Tamil community in the north and east of the Indian Ocean island. More than 70,000 people have been killed in the fighting.

Karuna defected in 2004 with thousands of his men and formed his own militia. The next year, Karuna's group joined the Sri Lankan government in the fight against their old comrades.

Foreign Office minister Kim Howells said in May that Britain believed Karuna to be responsible for "extra-judicial killings, abductions, intimidation of displaced persons and child recruitment."

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