07-12-2004, 08:00 PM
Date : 2004-07-12
<span style='font-size:25pt;line-height:100%'>The LTTE woman suicide bomber had stayed as a servant at the Colombo residence of a UNP activist. </span>
Colombo 12 July: The LTTE woman suicide bomber who blew herself at the Kollupitiya Police station last week had stayed as a servant for more than a year at the Colombo residence of a UNP activist.
The UNP member had unsuccessfully contested the Kandy district at the last parliamentary polls. His father had been a minister in a previous government.
The UNP activist gave a statement to the Criminal Investigation Department yesterday.
However, there was no evidence to suggest that he knew of the bomber’s identity or her mission. The woman who introduced the bomber to unsuspected family has been detained.
Meanwhile our correspondent Walter Jayawardhana writes from Los Angeles as follows:
The Kollupitiya Suicide Bomber, who was sent to Colombo by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was one of the walking bombs among several sent by the terrorist group as soon as the Ranil Wickremesinghe government lifted all road blocks following signing of the ceasefire agreement with LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, sources close to intelligence services said.
But UNP spokesman Ravindra Randeniya and UNP Deputy Secretary General Tissa Attanayaka blamed the government and the weakening of the peace process as causes for the explosion of the bomb at Kollupitiya. Both spokesmen of the party refrained from condemning the blast.
Under the relaxed conditions of the Ranil Wickremesinghe government, the suicide bomber Thiyagaraja Jeyarani was sent to Colombo, and ironically found employment in a Colombo house of a UNP candidate from Kandy District, sources said.
But the unsuccessful UNP candidate who employed the assassin as a domestic hand did not know absolutely anything about the Black Tiger member they were employing, police said. The police said that they now know who introduced the Black Tigress to be employed at the house of the UNPer.
The intelligence services believe at least thirty similar Black Tigers are residing within the Colombo Municipal limits right now and all of them arrived with the Jeyarani who blasted herself at the Kollupitiya police station, July 7. Some are living in the Hendala Wattala area, police said.
Among the assassins to kill political and military figures and saboteurs to destroy economic targets in the city, intelligence services believe there might be more than 10 young women close to Jeyarani’s age living in the city waiting for an order to act from Kilinochchi.
Intelligence believe their possible targets are VIP’s, anti-LTTE Tamil politicians , cabinet ministers, military officials of all forces, intelligence officials and latest addition are people supporting Colonel Karuna Amman , the renegade LTTE leader.
http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=10354
<span style='font-size:25pt;line-height:100%'>The LTTE woman suicide bomber had stayed as a servant at the Colombo residence of a UNP activist. </span>
Colombo 12 July: The LTTE woman suicide bomber who blew herself at the Kollupitiya Police station last week had stayed as a servant for more than a year at the Colombo residence of a UNP activist.
The UNP member had unsuccessfully contested the Kandy district at the last parliamentary polls. His father had been a minister in a previous government.
The UNP activist gave a statement to the Criminal Investigation Department yesterday.
However, there was no evidence to suggest that he knew of the bomber’s identity or her mission. The woman who introduced the bomber to unsuspected family has been detained.
Meanwhile our correspondent Walter Jayawardhana writes from Los Angeles as follows:
The Kollupitiya Suicide Bomber, who was sent to Colombo by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was one of the walking bombs among several sent by the terrorist group as soon as the Ranil Wickremesinghe government lifted all road blocks following signing of the ceasefire agreement with LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, sources close to intelligence services said.
But UNP spokesman Ravindra Randeniya and UNP Deputy Secretary General Tissa Attanayaka blamed the government and the weakening of the peace process as causes for the explosion of the bomb at Kollupitiya. Both spokesmen of the party refrained from condemning the blast.
Under the relaxed conditions of the Ranil Wickremesinghe government, the suicide bomber Thiyagaraja Jeyarani was sent to Colombo, and ironically found employment in a Colombo house of a UNP candidate from Kandy District, sources said.
But the unsuccessful UNP candidate who employed the assassin as a domestic hand did not know absolutely anything about the Black Tiger member they were employing, police said. The police said that they now know who introduced the Black Tigress to be employed at the house of the UNPer.
The intelligence services believe at least thirty similar Black Tigers are residing within the Colombo Municipal limits right now and all of them arrived with the Jeyarani who blasted herself at the Kollupitiya police station, July 7. Some are living in the Hendala Wattala area, police said.
Among the assassins to kill political and military figures and saboteurs to destroy economic targets in the city, intelligence services believe there might be more than 10 young women close to Jeyarani’s age living in the city waiting for an order to act from Kilinochchi.
Intelligence believe their possible targets are VIP’s, anti-LTTE Tamil politicians , cabinet ministers, military officials of all forces, intelligence officials and latest addition are people supporting Colonel Karuna Amman , the renegade LTTE leader.
http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=10354
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