A million rupee reward for LTTE Tamil terrorist

 Sri Lankan police  offered a million  Rupees (US$ 7,700) for information on a Tamil Tiger terrorist who is suspected of working to revive the banned outfit in the Island again.

The 31-year-old suspect, Kajeeban Ponniah Selvanayagam alias Gopi, also known as Kasiyan, is said to have escaped from a welfare centre in Northern Vavuniya immediately after the Sri Lankan military crushed the LTTE Tamil terrorists  in 2009.

The search for Gopi  intensified after he shot a police officer who was on his trail in Kilinochchi.  The owner of the house which provided the cover for Tamil terrorist Gopi was also arrested by the police.  The owner, a widow of Ex-LTTE Tamil terrorist and LTTE Tamil terrorist child solider is a strong anti-Sri Lanka activist with numbers of NGOs. According to the police the young Tamil man, who was part of a guerilla group famous for suicide bombings and assassinations, escaped from a house where he was hiding, and shot a police officer when he was identified.

Gopi, is suspected of being involved in relocating arms hidden in secret locations by the Tamil Tigers before their defeat, and trying to mobilise young men and women against the government.

“The LTTE had hidden arms and ammunition, explosives and other military equipment in secret locations prior to the end of the conflict and the purpose of this (Selvanayagam’s) operation had been to recover such material and give it to these operatives,” said the Sri Lankan police.

The Terrorist Investigation Department, TID  said that it had recovered a hidden cache of arms, ammunition, explosives and other military equipment including mobile phones, mortar and RPG live ammunition, hand grenades, claymore bombs as well as propaganda material in Kilinochchi.

“Selvanayagam who had been overseas and returned to Sri Lanka is actively involved in reviving certain LTTE operatives including those residing in Switzerland,” said the police.

Last week the government announced that there were attempts to re-mobilise the Tamil Tigers, who fought for a separate homeland in the Buddhist majority island for three decades.

The LTTE Tamil terrorists are banned in 32 countries including the US, UK, Australia, India and Canada. The terrorist group that assassinated two world leaders is the pioneer of the modern suicide belt and was infamous for its Black Tiger suicide squad.

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