Arrested two Ex-LTTE manufacturing firearms – Ampara

Sri Lankan police has arrested two a former member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), on allegations of illegally manufacturing firearms in the Thirukovil region of Ampara district, predominately Sinhala majority district.

Based on a tip-off received by police, the Ampara division of the intelligence wing sieged a building in Thirukovil which was reportedly a hub for manufacturing spare parts for machine guns. A 60 year old metalsmith named Kanthaiya Thavarasa was apprehended in the operation.

Subsequently 35-year old Somasundaram Gajendran was also arrested for illicit manufacturing of machine guns. The Sri Lankan security forces stated that Gajendran is a former member of the LTTE Tamil terrorists group which was wiped out in May 2009 by Sri Lankan security forces.

It was found that Gajendran received military training at the Tora Bora camp of the LTTE in Batticaloa in 2002. Known by his nom de guerre ‘Thavaroopan’ during his time with the LTTE Tamil terrorists, Gajendran had served in the motor wing of the Tamil terrorist group and planning to regrouped the banned LTTE in Sri Lanka to commence the terror activities.

It is also claimed that Gajendran was not ‘rehabilitated’ by the government like other former LTTE terrorists following the end of the war in 2009 with Tamil terrorists.

The intelligence wing claimed to have confiscated ten firearms and handed them over alongside the arrested Tamil men to the Thirukovila police station. The police are said to be currently undertaking activities to take the accused to the Akkaraipattuwa Magistrate Court.

LTTE is a banned Tamil terrorist organization in over 40 countries for their terror and killing of over 100,000 people in Sri Lanka and overseas.

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