TMVP Spokesman Thooyavan issuing a statement from his office in Batticaloa alleged that the LTTE is engaged in a campaign of denigrating the TMVP by linking it with the Sri Lankan Security Forces. "This is a pre-planned campaign to stall the peace talks," he noted.
He also pointed out that his party's leadership has declared unilateral ceasefire with the Vanni paramilitary group led by Prabakaran. But warned that during this period if the Vanni Paramilitary groups attacked their members or supporters, they would also have no choice but to retaliate and renounce their ceasefire declaration.
"In case we are forced to go back to war we pledge that we will launch a search and hunt operation against the Vanni paramilitaries not only in the east but also in the whole island," Thooyavan warned.
"After failing in its latest attempt to start its Eelam War IV the LTTE is trying to manufacture excuses to scuttle the talks. Various allegations leveled against the TMVP in its websites and the Tamil media are all designed to divert attention away from its past record of human rights violations and, more importantly, abduction of children to beef up its dwindling cadres.
"The latest allegation comes from the stage managed press conference in which 15-year-old Arulraj Senthilnathan of Punnaichcholai was produced before a group of LTTE cadres posing as journalists.
"Our information reveals that the so - called press conference was never held. Instead the boy had talked to four members of Vanni paramilitary's intelligence group masquerading as press reporters. These men had offered the boy a banana, Vadai and some tea and made him say what they wanted to hear.
We wish declare that we had never known this boy. He was never with us. Nor do we need abducted young boys to fight our battle against Prabakaran and his gang of criminals," the TMVP spokesman said in his statement.
(http://www.theacademic.org/stories/11392325030/story.shtml)
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