Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Wanni Tigers agitated over Ramanan’s assassination

It is reported that the Tiger Organization has been perturbed over the death of Ramanan alias Kandiah Ulaganathan who was a senior member of the group. It is said that Ramanan was the uppermost leader killed during the past four years.

It is said he was master mind behind suicide attack on Army Commandar Sarath Fonseka, attack on the Temple of Sacred Tooth Relic and several other serious attacks executed in Colombo.

It is said that he was closely associated with Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman who was the second military leader in Batticaloa and Ampara.

According to security forces Ramanan was provided with high security and an accurate clue on his whereabouts was essential to target him. It is reported that the Tiger organization is investigating on any leakage of information within the organization.

Unconfirmed reports added that he had diffrences with Bhanu of Batticaloa and Ampara leader.

It is reported with his assassination Tigers’ strength in East has surfaced a crisis. This has led to lose the moral of its members that some are in qualms of leaving the movement, it added. He was associated with Karuna Amman for a long time and it is feared that his absence will be a big damage to the Tigers.

When Tiger leader Kaushalyan was killed the Tiger Organization made use of the assassination in winning the sympathy of international community. But in the present situation there is no hope in materializing that objective.

It is learnt because of this reason the Wani Tigers are blaming the Government for Ramanan’s assassination.

Wanni Tigers have decided to declare one week’s mourning on his death, it is also reported.

(http://www.lankatruth.com/full_story/2006/May/20060523/20060523_14.htm)

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