Defence Minister Tilak Marapana has ordered two separate investigations into the safe house and the arms cache found at the Millennium Housing Scheme in Athurugiriya last week.
Mr. Marapana told the Daily Mirror yesterday that there were two versions given as to the purpose of the location and the arms found there. "One was that the Army used it for counter terrorist purposes while the other explanation is that it was used as a base for election violence. I am keeping an open mind and waiting for both reports from the police and the military police" he said.
Several Army personnel surrendered or were taken into custody after ten Muslim youth were ambushed and killed in the village of Pallethalawinna on general election day.
Earlier that day it was alleged that men belonging to the Presidential Security Division had destroyed a polling booth at Udathalawinna and then been attacked by the villagers who seriously wounded a number of them.
In the course of the investigations the address of the safe house at Athurugiriya in which arms and ammunition were found, was revealed. The Army which allegedly had been implicated in election violence has claimed that the safe house was used by men of the "Deep Penetration Unit" a unit used to target leading terrorists in LTTE held areas.
(http://www.dailymirror.lk/archives/dmr070102/News/pro.html)
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