With government informants being regularly gunned down by allegedly unidentified LTTE gangs, the latest intelligence reports have revealed an estimated 1000 LTTE cadres from the North-East have taken up residence in Colombo and its suburbs.
An anti-terrorist intelligence officer who did not wish to be identified told the Daily Mirror that unarmed LTTE cadres have taken up residence in the Bambalapitiya and Wellawatte areas.
According to the source civilians partial to the LTTE had been sent to Colombo along with their families and helped to settle down and start their own businesses. Especially LTTE cadres had been sent to Colombo to work in shops, it said.
Most of these persons have got themselves registered as voters in their respective areas, the source said.
According to an intelligence survey Bambalapitiya, Wellawatta, Dehiwela, Mt. Lavinia, Pettah, Grandpass and Kotahena have been identified as the areas where the migrant cadres have recently settled down, especially after the signing of the Ceasefire Agreement in 2002.
