Kerala probes presence of LTTE chief's wife

Kerala government on Tuesday said it was verifying reports that the wife of LTTE Chief Parabhakarn had taken shelter in the state following escalation of fighting between Tamil tigers and Sri Lankan Army in the island nation.

"Government did not have any official information about the whereabouts of Prabhakaran and his family and it is looking into the reports in this regard", State Home Minister Kodiyari Balakrishnan told reporters in the state capital on Tuesday.

However, police stations in coastal areas have been alerted as a precautionary measure, Balakrishnan said. The government has decided to set up eight more police stations in the coastal areas to intensify surveillance, he said.

"The new police stations would start functioning within one month", he said. These police stations would be equipped with modern gadgets and boats to carry out sea patrolling.

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Army not invovled in attack on school bus in Madhu -- Brig. Nanayakkara

Military Spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara totally denied LTTE allegations that Sri Lanka Army deep penetration unit attacked a civilian school bus in the Madhu area. He stressed that there were no military teams operating in those areas. Mannar Bishop, Rev. Rayappu Joseph was quoted earlier as having said that several school childred had died in a claymore blast insite LTTE controlled areas in Mannar.

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Letters Recovered From Slain LTTE Women Speak Louder

Emotions and true-self in every human being, no matter what your gender or vocation is, for that matter, even a brainwashed terrorist, would come to the fore when the moment of awful truth dawned on any person.

The human nature is such, unable to make moral and rational judgments, that it always finds the sad desperation to commit terrorist acts, in this case, on the orders of the leadership. The case under reference was the latest detection of a few personal letters from the possession of dead women cadres of the LTTE. Those letters recovered from female Tigers died recently in Mannar and Welioya speak louder than what has been written by those victimized female Tigers. One Daya Nagai Neela, an LTTE woman cadre who has been conscripted by the LTTE as she alleged, wrote to her mother, father and the family while he was on the LTTE frontline at Uyilankulam, Mannar on 9th January 2008, just a few days before her death. Extracts from some of those letters found from dead Tigers are as follows:

“Mother, please don’t bother about me. If you are sick please go to hospital and get treatment. Amma, what can I do? When all those at home in the area were taken away, I too had to go with them. Every fighter cries “Amma and Appa” at the time of their heroic death. They are all anxious to see their mothers. Since 8 August 2007. I am at Mannar Forward Defence Lines. We do not have food, water or tea at the battlefield. Life in the organization is very miserable. During the firing of mortars and shells we crawl and bring food and water etc. I will come to our Pongal. I don’t know what my fate will be. Amma, please reply every letter which I send. I hope for a reply on the same day itself- yours loving daughter Daya Nagai Nila. (928)”

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Lankan Defence Secy denies helping Karuna

Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse has rejected accusations that he helped renegade LTTE leader V Muralitharan, better known as Colonel Karuna, to secure a diplomatic passport through which he entered Britain.

His remarks came a day after BBC reported Karuna's allegations made in a British court that Rajapakse, younger brother of President Mahinda Rajapakse, "arranged everything" for him to travel to the UK using a diplomatic passport.

Karuna was sentenced to nine months in prison by the Isleworth Crown Court in West London on Friday for traveling on a forged passport to Britain

"I haven't helped him (Karuna). It is wrong for the British judiciary to make public these claims without verification," Gotabhaya Rajapakse told 'Lakbimanews'.

Reading out Karuna's statement in the open court, the prosecution had charged that President's Rajapakse's brother was known to him since he defected from the LTTE.

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Two forest officers found hacked to death at Wasgamuwa national park.

Two forest officers found hacked to death at Wasgamuwa national park.

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Army captured Viyattankulam

Army captured Viyattankulam in Mannar and ten terrorists were killed and ten bunkers destroyed in the confrontation today (29) morning.

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