LTTE 'DPU' captured

Army Intelligence unit last weekend cracked open the activities of an LTTE 'Deep Penetration Unit' in the Weli Oya sector uncovering weapons and food dumps located in government held areas behind the advancing 59 Division's path.

MI units recovered 5 claymore mines, dry rations, explosives and other armaments from the Tamil village of Salpe Aru. By last week, Intelligence units had captured five of the LTTE 'Deep Penetration Unit' cadres from various safehouses.

The cadres have revealed an elaborate network of smuggling men and materials to the East via Kuchchaveli and Thiriyaya jungles. The first cadre arrested from the group, who is also the leader of the group, was a 17-year-old Teenager with 5yrs of experience in the LTTE.

The LTTE is the first to develop a 'Deep Penetration Unit' in the war under the leadership of 'Col.' Jeyam. Jeyam, whilst serving as a junior cadre under Prabhakaran's relative and disgraced senior cadre Mahendrarajah alias Mahattaya was arrested and tortured by LTTE intelligence units on suspicion of conspiracy against Prabhakaran's unilateral command.

Prabhakaran, a born talent at identifying lambs for slaughter, gave a task to Jeyam to prove himself to which Jeyam responded by developing the LTTE's first DPU, a less sophisticated design than that of the SLA's LRRP units, which uses Tamil villages inside government areas as cover for reconnaissance and sabotage missions.

Currently these units operate in the south killing mainly civilians after reached these areas along old routes of pilgrimage used by Hindu devotees for centuries to go on pilgrimage to the Kataragama Devala.