Three LTTE cadres who had surrendered themselves to the Army camp at Polwatta in Valachchenai on Monday (11th) revealed that they had been subjected to discriminatory treatment by the LTTE's Wanni dominated leadership in the East.
The three Tamil youths, who identified themselves as residents of Batticaloa before being forcibly recruited to the LTTE, said that they had lost all the faith in the outfit due to this reason.
Speaking to the defence officials one youth said that LTTE's eastern commander Jeyam is planning to flee Thoppigala area along with his Wanni acolytes while the Eastern cadres are being used as scapegoats to hold the army advance.
During the interrogation the surrendees further revealed that a serious clash has been erupted between the Jeyam and LTTE's special military leader Ramesh on the leadership issues.
Ramesh who is belonging to the LTTE's eastern cadre has reportedly condemned Jeyam's undue favour towards Wanni cadres when deploying cadre at the battlefront. It is known that Ramesh has been ordered to confront with the army advance only with the remaining eastern LTTE cadres while Jayam and his Wanni favourites stay back at the main base.
According to the surrendees, Jeyam does not even send them sufficient food to the cadres in the front though he has sent his orders wanting them to fight to death. "Yet, he (Jeyam) and his favourites including Nagesh are hurriedly packing their bags to Wanni", one surrendee added.
A senior defence official speaking to defence.lk further explained the context of the comments made by the surrendees. He said that LTTE leader V. Prbhakarn had once planned to assassinate Ramesh on the suspicion of aiding the Karuna faction.
"Ramesh was called to Wanni, but Prbhakaran had to change his mind as senior cadres like Bhanu had threatened to leave the outfit if Ramesh was killed", he said. "Now, Ramesh has been redeployed in the East, while his family has been taken to hostage at Kilinochchi by the Wanni leadership. These facts have been verified through the intelligence sources" he further added.
The Media Centre for National Security said that total number of 644 LTTE cadres have surrendered themselves to the security forces since 2002. All the surrendered cadres are being rehabilitated and gradually injected to the normal social life.
(http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20070613_01)
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