LTTE cooking up evidence to link Government with anti-LTTE Tamil parties

Key leaders belonging to the political wing of the TamilEela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (Col.Karuna's wing) met the villagers at the Pechiyamman Temple grounds located in Valaichchenai on Tuesday early morning. The meeting was arranged by the villagers Kannan Kiramam, Vinayagapuram, Kannakipuram, Pethalai, Puthukudiyiruppu located in Valaichchenai.

Political wing of the TMVP led by Commander Markan, along with Pratheepan and five others spoke at the meeting. According to the TMVP spokesman, nearly 350 villagers participated in the meeting.

Thooyavan TMVP spokesman said that it was the villagers who invited them for the meeting. "Our men went unarmed for the meeting and mingled with the villagers who warmly welcomed them and listened to them," he said.

"It was unfortunate that Vanni Tigers twisted the whole story and came up with a canard which no one in the East would take it seriously ," he said.

Vanni Tigers allegations of threat and intimidation exerted by our cadres did not hold water as Suryian FM Radio blasted it when they interviewed the Military Spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe, who denied any such incidents of threat and intimidation taking place at the Pechiyamman Temple ground Tuesday, which is located in the Government controlled area, as alleged by the Vanni Tigers.

Thooyavan further said: "Suryian FM Radio, before contacting me also contacted the police station, which is located just 500 meters away from the Temple grounds. According to the Radio report 'The police' according to the news item broadcast by the radio sation, 'have denied of any threat and intimidation and they confirmed that there were no such incidents that threatened the peace in the area'."

Thooyavan further said that it is high time the Vanni Tigers stop groaning over the growing popularity of the TVMP and is leader Colonel Karuna in the midst of the Tamil and Muslim people in the East.

"The grotesque statements they make, it is quite apparent, are not meant for the consumption of the people in the East but are meant for the consumption of the international community," Thooyavan pointed out.

He further said it is high time they stop making a mockery of themselves and leave the East once and for all.

TamilNet – the pro-LTTE organ, reported that more than 150 Sri Lankan Army soldiers and around 50 paramilitary cadres rounded up five villages in Valaichenai. TamilNet also claimed: "Cadres from the ENDLF paramilitary group and a key operative of the EPDP group attached to the Sri Lanka Army camp in Valaichenai Harbour also took part in the show-down paramilitary operation."

Political observers said that the LTTE is desperately trying to cook up evidence against the government by linking SL Army with the Tamil political parties opposed to the LTTE. This has been the pattern since the Geneva talks. LTTE reports should be taken with a pinch of salt, said a leading Tamil political observer.

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