Thuiyavan said his group is not a gang but an organization.
"Nobody can disarm us. We have our own arms. They are not given by the government or anybody else. We will hand over our arms on the day Prabhakaran hands over his. Until then we will not put down arms," said 'Thuiyavan', who introduced himself as the political leader of the Karuna Group, the breakaway faction of the LTTE.
He said so to the Lankadeepa newspaper when the paper’s provincial correspondent, Raj Weerasinghe, met a team of Karuna cadres in the government-controlled Wadumunai area near Welikanda town in the Batticaloa district.
The Lankadeepa newspaper published two photographs depicting two LTTE deserters surrendering themselves with arms to the Karuna Group. Thuiyavan said to the correspondent that their group is not a gang but an organization.
He said they fear the Sri Lanka Army and police, but bear arms to protect themselves from the LTTE.
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