No Mercy for the Civilian, Sinhala or Tamil...!!!

With dead bodies of civilians being discovered everyday, the number of massacred civilians in Thanamalvila and Hambantota could be as many as 30, unofficial and unverified sources indicated to DefenceWire. The victims are mostly Chena Cultivators from Thanamalvila. These massacres have been conducted, possibly by 3 12-man/woman teams, probably from Jeyanthan Regiment brought through Peraru jungle in Trincomalee. The present Jeyanthan regiment comprises mostly of Eastern fighters who did not disband with Karuna in 2004. They are now commanded by Northern fighters.

Sources indicate that a group of around 100-200 Tigers are sent in a rotating system to Ampara from Mullaithivu, via Tincomalee. Around 25 cadres remain in Peraru at any given time to facilitate the rotation. Living off buried food dumps, these groups then cross the Trinco-Habarana route at night and travel to Ampara in small batches. The Navy's Special Boat Squadron attacked and killed a few of these cadres inside Peraru jungle recently. But the overall failure of the STF leadership to flush them out is causing concerns as the Tigers start hitting soft targets in the deep south. Small numbers of intelligence and pistol gang members are also being rotated as part of the plan.

Sleeper agents moving in Thanganagar, Paththa number (number 10), upto Thiriyaya in Trincomalee went underground following a few 'pickups' by Naval and SLA intelligence backed by Karuna Group. Civilians had complained that suspicious men had been turning up, summoning local NGOs at Kovil festivals etc, asking them for various assistance.

Meanwhile Tigers are planning to shut down schools in Mulaithivu and Kilinochchi on charges of deliberate targeting of school children by the SLAF. This has caused some concern in the defence establishment who have information of possible targeting of school children in the south. The Tigers are facing pressure from parents in Mulaithivu and Kilinochchi as corpses of forcibly recruited children start turning up in these two districts at a rate of a body a day. These children are unfortunate victims of the Tiger military machine. They have become canon-fodder as Charles Anthony, Malathi and other regiments attempt to resist the advancing Mobility Corridor of the Army in the Mannar, Vavuniya and Weli Oya fronts. This is the actual plight of Tamil children in these areas, which has very little to do with SLAF target bombings.