According to the latest information received through Ground Intelligence, LTTE Supremo Velupillai Pripaharan has received minor bruise and cut injuries to his right shoulder in an Air Force bombing in November at Iruthirapuram (Uruthirapuram).
According to Military Intelligence a trunk of a Palmirah tree used as part of a camouflaged bunker at his safehouse situated in a housing scheme in Iruthirapuram had hit Prabha on his right shoulder. The man in some degree of discomfort had been taken to a secret location for treatment by his bodyguards. It is also possible that Pripaharan was in a state of shock at the time.
Confirmation of this news was being awaited by the Military Intelligence long before journalist D.B.S Jeyaraj's report to The Nation newspaper. DefenceWire was also awaiting confirmation before this post.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Prabha's Injuries Now Confirmed
Government warns to ban LTTE
LTTE will be banned if they continue to carry out attacks against civilians, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksha has warned. Government will reimpose the ban on LTTE, which was withdrawn just before the start of peace negotiations in late 2002, if LTTE continue to target civilians as they did last month at Nugegoda junction where atleast 19 persons were killed in a parcel bomb blast, the President told reporters yesterday at "Temple Trees"-his residence.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is fighting for a separate state in northern and eastern parts of the Indian island nation for more than two decades,which left more than 64000 dead.
The organization was banned in 1998 after they carried out a massive suicide attack using a explosive packed truck in front of the Holy Buddhist Temple of the Tooth Relic in the Central city of Kandy, 116 kilometers northeast of Colombo.
LTTE is designated as a foreign terrorists organization in United States of America since 1997, before that India banned the organization in 1991 after they killed one time Indian premier Rajive Ghandi, the man who involved in brokering the Indo Lanka Peace Accord to end Sri lanka's ethnic problem. European Union,Canada,Australia and United Kingdom also banned the LTTE in their countries.