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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nukisl" data-source="post: 913214" data-attributes="member: 3314">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.(Advertisement)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.<a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20071102/tuk-srilanka-unrest-britain-arrest-a7ad41d_1.html" target="_blank">http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20071102/tuk-srilanka-unrest-britain-arrest-a7ad41d_1.html</a>Sri Lankan rebel breakaway leader held in UKSri Lankan rebel breakaway leader held in UKReuters, 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<a href="http://www.theacademic.org/" target="_blank">http://www.theacademic.org/</a></blockquote>

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