STF finds NGO-run LTTE hospital
Tigers remove child solders
Explosives laden vehicles recovered
Vehicle bombs meant for Colombo?
The LTTE yesterday vacated a major base, situated in the Thoppigala jungles, to avoid advancing police commandos.
Police units reached the Kanchikudichchi Aru base, also known as the Stanley Base, around two pm.
The military sources said that defenders did not resist the advance and withdrew leaving behind a stock of arms, ammunition and dry rations.
Commandos recovered three motor cycles and a truck laden with explosives.
Police had found evidence that a number of child soldiers had been undergoing training there and had been removed by the fleeing Tigers.
Police believed that the explosive laden truck was to be used to carry out a suicide attacks presumably in Colombo. According to the police the three motor cycles too had been fitted with explosive devices.
Police believed that a Foreign NGO ZOA had funded a hospital run by the LTTE in the Thoppigala jungle. The hospital, one intelligence camp, two sub camps, and the main base had accommodated about 200 LTTE cadres.
Police also recovered a stock of anti personnel mines and two water bowsers belonging to the TRO. Police also recovered two generators. Commandos are in the process of clearing the LTTE facility.
The ongoing operation is part of the overall strategy to weaken the LTTE in the Eastern Province.
Police also came upon a holiday retreat inside the camp. The LTTE hierarchy is believed to have made use of it to take a break and plan out future campaigns.
An LTTE commander is also believed to have perished along with some of his cadres in a skirmish with the advancing Commandos.
(http://www.island.lk/2007/01/09/news11.html)
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