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Prabakaran is interested in a final assault against Sri Lankan forces and not in the peace talks Colonel Karuna Amman


London, 12 July: Venayagamoorthy alias Colonel Karuna Amman disclosed that when he went to Bangkok for the first time to participate in the peace negotiation with the Government of Sri Lanka, Velupillai Prabakaran leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam personally gave him a lethal weapon shopping list to be personally hand over to his arms broker K.Pathmanathan who lives in Bangkok.

Karuna, the LTTE renegade leader, clarified that Prabakaran gave the list for the purchase of the military hardware to him and not any briefing notes as to what and what points he should raise at the conference table.

Colonel Karuna Amman, in an interview given to the London based Thamil Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) and to the Tamil service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said Prabakarans arms broker who is commonly known as KP K. Pathmanathan and Aiyah, the two of them lives in Bangkok and he met them and handed over the list to them given by the Tiger leader.

Karuna alleged that Prabakaran is not all interested in the Peace Talks, but he is playing for time while making preparation for a final assault on the Sri Lankan forces.

In the interview aired over the two London based radios Karuna declared that he wanted to organize a political party embracing North and Eastern region of Sri Lanka. He added war would cause only death and destructions, but he said that he is not going to give up his struggle for the national liberation.

Karuna flatly denied that he was not at all involved in any of those killings that took place in the Eastern region of the country. He alleged that it was a well designed propaganda ploy of Prabakaran against him.

He also flatly denied that he is not operating either with the Sri Lankan Army or else with the Army’s intelligence agencies. He said,” I only live with my people in the East.”

Karuna explained in detail that he withdrew his forces during the Good Friday attack by Prabakaran cadres who crossed Verugal by 09th of May, and let them rejoin their families because he wanted to avoid fratricidal war.

When the interviewer asked why he did not resist Prabakaran when he ordered somewhere after 1989 to attack the Tamil cadres in the rival groups, he said that those days and even now, if anyone resists or disobey the orders of Prabakaran then he can be sure of receiving bullet in his head.

When asked about the allegations made by Nilavini and r three other women cadres, he said those women cadres must have been kidnapped from their houses and made use for propaganda under threat and intimidation by Prabakaran’s operatives.

Karuna told that at present there are about 300 cadres with Prabakaran group in Batticaloa – Amparai districts and he has already appealed to them to leave group and go back to their homes. He said that would happen very soon.

He alleged that Prabakaran group is involved in the killings of the innocent civilians and those former cadres who refuse to rejoin them. If this situation continues it wont be long for the entire people in the Batticaloa Amparai districts to rise against Prabakaran and his men and wage a armed campaign to chase them away from the East.

- Asian Tribune -