As Sri Lanka’s Army steps up raids into Tamil Tiger controlled territory, clashes between its Deep Penetration Unit (DPU) and LTTE forces are becoming more commonplace.
The LTTE captured a Sri Lankan Army soldier attached to the Deep Penetration Unit (DPU), formally knows as Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) unit near Batticaloa Lagoon Friday last week.
Mr. Daya Mohan, the LTTE political head for Batticaloa, told reporters the captured soldier had confessed his two man team had instructions to attack civilian targets in LTTE controlled areas to sow terror. Their team was behind a claymore attack in Pattipalai and another attack at Thandiyadi Maveerar cemetery in Batticaloa, the trooper had said, adding his team was behind a robbery at a TRO office in Batticaloa.
Two Sri Lankan DPU troopers, who fled Illuppadichenai, a Liberation Tigers controlled territory west of Batticaloa, after a claymore attack, went into hiding into the Pankudaveli jungle close to Batticaloa lagoon to evade LTTE cadres chasing them. The SLA dispatched another two-man DPU from Eravur, towards the Pankudaveli jungle across the Batticaloa lagoon, to rescue them, but the LTTE cadres shot one member and captured the other.
Meanwhile, on June 13, members of a Tamil auxiliary brigade on a road clearing patrol on Nedunkerni Road, between Nainamadu and Puliyankulam, inside the Liberation Tigers controlled area, intercepted a SLA DPU as they were fixing 3 claymore mines. Two Tamil auxiliaries and an SLA soldier were killed when gunfire was exchanged.
The SLA trooper, whose body was captured by the auxiliaries, was clad in an LTTE uniform, reports said. His body was handed to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday, to be given to the Sri Lanka government.
LTTE’s Vavuniya district Head of the Political Wing, Mr. Gnanam, handed over the body to the ICRC representative Simon Wolf in the presence of members of the SLMM.
At least one bag with a “SLA” mark was recovered from the attackers, according to the video footage released by the National Television of Tamileelam (NTT).
On Thursday night, a robbery at the TRO’s main Batticaloa storage facility located at Old Road, inside the heavy security military controlled zone of Batticaloa Town, resulted in nearly 1.5 million rupees worth of goods stolen.
Early Friday morning the thief was arrested with some of the stolen goods by the LTTE cadres in Pankudaveli in LTTE controlled Batticaloa. He confessed to stealing the goods and divulged that the Sri Lankan military in Batticaloa helped him to rob the TRO stores, said Mr Daya Mohan, the Batticaloa district political head of LTTE.
The LTTE captured a Sri Lankan Army soldier attached to the Deep Penetration Unit (DPU), formally knows as Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) unit near Batticaloa Lagoon Friday last week.
Mr. Daya Mohan, the LTTE political head for Batticaloa, told reporters the captured soldier had confessed his two man team had instructions to attack civilian targets in LTTE controlled areas to sow terror. Their team was behind a claymore attack in Pattipalai and another attack at Thandiyadi Maveerar cemetery in Batticaloa, the trooper had said, adding his team was behind a robbery at a TRO office in Batticaloa.
Two Sri Lankan DPU troopers, who fled Illuppadichenai, a Liberation Tigers controlled territory west of Batticaloa, after a claymore attack, went into hiding into the Pankudaveli jungle close to Batticaloa lagoon to evade LTTE cadres chasing them. The SLA dispatched another two-man DPU from Eravur, towards the Pankudaveli jungle across the Batticaloa lagoon, to rescue them, but the LTTE cadres shot one member and captured the other.
Meanwhile, on June 13, members of a Tamil auxiliary brigade on a road clearing patrol on Nedunkerni Road, between Nainamadu and Puliyankulam, inside the Liberation Tigers controlled area, intercepted a SLA DPU as they were fixing 3 claymore mines. Two Tamil auxiliaries and an SLA soldier were killed when gunfire was exchanged.
The SLA trooper, whose body was captured by the auxiliaries, was clad in an LTTE uniform, reports said. His body was handed to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday, to be given to the Sri Lanka government.
LTTE’s Vavuniya district Head of the Political Wing, Mr. Gnanam, handed over the body to the ICRC representative Simon Wolf in the presence of members of the SLMM.
At least one bag with a “SLA” mark was recovered from the attackers, according to the video footage released by the National Television of Tamileelam (NTT).
On Thursday night, a robbery at the TRO’s main Batticaloa storage facility located at Old Road, inside the heavy security military controlled zone of Batticaloa Town, resulted in nearly 1.5 million rupees worth of goods stolen.
Early Friday morning the thief was arrested with some of the stolen goods by the LTTE cadres in Pankudaveli in LTTE controlled Batticaloa. He confessed to stealing the goods and divulged that the Sri Lankan military in Batticaloa helped him to rob the TRO stores, said Mr Daya Mohan, the Batticaloa district political head of LTTE.
