Thursday, February 02, 2006

New twist to TRO abduction drama, kidnappers communicated in Hindi By Munza Mushtaq

olombo, 03 February, (Asiantribune.com):In a surprising twist to the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization’s (TRO) abduction drama, several of the Organization workers who were released by the 'armed gang' has made a statement to the effect that their kidnappers had been speaking to each other in Sinhala, Tamil and Hindi.

Meanwhile, TRO's project consultant in Colombo, Arjunan Ethirveerasingam told the Asian Tribune that his organization had still not seen anything positive coming out of the investigations, although statements have been recorded by the respective police station and the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission. "but we are continuing to be in touch with the police and the Monitoring Mission," he said.

Commenting on the denial by the Government that the incidents had not taken place in close proximity to the Welikanda check points, Mr. Ethirveerasingam pointed out that his organization was merely replicating the words of the TRO workers who were released.

At the time this articles was filed, eight TRO workers continued to be missing.

(http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=16922)

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