The Defence Ministry website yesterday said the TMVP led by Karuna Amman is a political party being targeted by the LTTE, the latest being on Saturday when two TMVP cadres were killed in two separate incidents in Batticalola and Ampara.
The news item and views by the defence.lk website came at a time the EPDP led by Minister Douglas Devananda had sought a crackdown on the outfit owing to intimidations in the east and also comes with the international community urging the government to disarm the outfit.
The defence.lk website said that the latest victims of the LTTE have been identified as strong supporters of the “Tamil political party the TMVP” which over the weekend issued a statement it could not disarm owing to threats by the LTTE.
According to the defence website two LTTE motorbike riding assassins had shot at three Tamil youth in front of the AG office at Alliadiwembu in Akkaraipattuwa on Saturday night. The victims, identified as Ravichandran died on the spot while the other two identified as Alagaiya Kalanarthi and Balakrishnan Sabapathi suffered serious injuries and were admitted to the government hospital in Batticaloa.
In another incident at Wellaweli in Batticaloa another 16 year old youth identified as Ariyarathnam Selvakumar was shot dead at 14th Colony on Saturday night. The victim was a relative of the TMVP activist in the area, the defence website said.
The website further noted that earlier last week the LTTE killed two other members of the same political party at Vinayagapuram and Mutur in the Eastern province.
The defence website noted that the TMVP is a political party headed by the former LTTE leader for the Eastern ProvinceKaruna Amman who broke away from the LTTE and formed the new political party as his
“first step towards entering mainstream politics.”
In a press release on Saturday the TMVP political office expressed its concerns over the safety of its supporters due to the threats of the LTTE terrorists, the defence website said quoting the TMVP statement.
Just last week EPDP leader Dauglas Devananda told the Daily Mirror he had raised concerns over the activities of the TMVP in the east as they continued to threaten other Tamil political parties including the EPDP and got an assurance from the President to deal with the group.
(www.dailymirror.lk)
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