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LTTE issues fresh warning to Sri Lankan government

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

New Delhi, Aug 24, IRNA -- The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Tuesday charged the Sri Lankan government with "accommodating and 
encouraging" armed groups, and said it was "a serious threat" to the 
two-year-old ceasefire agreement. 
According to the Hindu, a New Delhi-based English daily, three 
days after two of its senior members were killed in an ambush in 
eastern Sri Lanka, the LTTE`s political wing leader, S.P. 
Tamilchelvan, in a letter to the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission said 
the government forces had "acted in bad faith" in the run-up to the 
killing of its former political wing leader for the eastern Amparai 
district, Bawa, on August 20. 
Describing the attack as having been "meticulously planned" and 
carried out close to "two military checkpoints," he said that it was 
not the first time that the army had acted in bad faith and colluded 
with elements opposed to the Tamil cause. 
The LTTE also renewed its charge that the army`s "military 
intelligence personnel" were in collaboration "with various armed 
groups" -- an allegation denied by the Sri Lankan Army. 
Sri Lankan defense sources see the LTTE`s latest complaint as 
"wild allegations" that are aimed at delaying the resumption of 
negotiations with the government. 
Tuesday`s accusation by the LTTE is the strongest against the Sri 
Lankan Army since the March 3 rebellion by its former military 
commander, V. Muralitharan (`Col.` Karuna). 
The LTTE, which described the revolt as "an internal problem," 
subsequently "discharged" `Col.` Karuna from the organization. 
Later, as the former military commander continued to hold out 
against the LTTE in the eastern Batticaloa district, the Tigers said 
they had decided "to get rid" of him and launched a military operation
on Good Friday. 
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