Reports reveal that the situation in the East of Sri Lanka especially in the Batticaloa – Amparai districts are fastly deteriorating and the high command of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has ordered the Eastern commanders to take adequate precautionary measures to safeguard their cadres from any blitzkrieg by the rival Tamil group.
It is learnt that a couple of hundred LTTE cadres have already deserted the LTTE bases. They have run away, fearing a sudden attack on the LTTE camps, at any time by rival group – TamilEeala Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal – Colonel Karuna faction.
According to reports, a tense and a highly volatile situation are prevailing in the midst of the LTTE cadres in the Batticalao – Amparai districts. Rumors are afloat that at any time they may be subjected to a ruthless attack by the cadres belonging to Karuna group who are waiting in the jungle bordering the Tiger controlled areas.
Vanni high command, according to an intelligence report, has ordered all vehicles belonging to the LTTE to be off the road daily after 6 PM in the evening in their areas. Also cadres were strictly told not to leave the base till dawn.
In the mornings, LTTE cadres were seen inspecting the roads for any possible land mines and also to ascertain no rival cadres are lurking behind the trees. Only after the road clearance is completed, cadres are allowed to use motor cycles and other vehicles to move around the areas under their control.
According to the instructions from the Vanni high command, LTTE cadres in the Batticalao district are involved in a recruitment spree of youths, to be trained as armed cadres.
Tiger cadres manning the forward defense sentry point located in the Badulla Road at Koduwamadu had forcefully recruited 20 youths on 28 March. Majority of them were underage children from Senaikudiyirupu, Oorani, Chenkaladi and Batticaloa town. These people, as usual, went for work from the Government controlled areas to the Tiger area.
They were stopped at the forward sentry point and told that they are being detained for an inquiry. Subsequently all of them were transported in a tractor to a Tiger camp.
Similarly on 29 March, a total of 15 youths were forcefully recruited. Out of them 10 went to work in a construction site at Karadiyanaru and 5 of them were laborers went to work in the paddy fields.
Again on 30 March, 8 youths were forcefully taken away.
It is now learnt that all those forcefully recruited youths in the last three days were taken to a LTTE’s training camp under the control of Mano Master, located at Eeralakulam, close to Tharavai.
When the parents of those youths approached the forward sentry points at Koduwamadu to inquire about their children, those LTTE cadres manning the sentry point chased them away. Parents were harshly told that their children joined the LTTE on their own free will.
In the meantime, another report emerging from Batticalao revealed that suddenly Keerthi, head of the LTTE’s intelegence wing has been summoned to Vanni. Though details are sketchy, a source revealed that Keerthi, a cadre from Batticalao was summoned for inquiry and presently held under house arrest in Vanni.
(http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=17467)
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