LTTE’s Channel of Communication

by Anjali Sharma

(March 14, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) LTTE’s operational capabilities, in different dimensions, were hit hard at several places this week. While the Sri Lanka Air Force jets pounded the LTTE’s communication base with transmitting tower in the north-east of Oddusudan junction, British parliamentarians came down heavily on the group’s credit card frauds to fund its terrorist activities. The Toronto Police arrested two Londoners and two Canadians alleged to have links with the LTTE and recovered a a large numbers of skimmed British credit cards.

The Sri Lankan Army succeeded in capturing the town of Parappakandal but was not able to track down sophisticated weapons which it fear could be used by the terrorist group to reverse the recent defeats.

Meanwhile, intelligence agencies in India exposed the underground network of the terrorist group in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. On a tip off, the Kerala Police seized a vessel being built by a private company at the Kochi dockyard for LTTE. The police said Rs. 12 lakh were already paid as advance for the boat.. The police are now in the search of some other similar boats being constructed for LTTE.

Undeterred by these setbacks, LTTE inaugurated its new Tamil TV Channel Tharshanam for propaganda purposes via Eurobird 9@ 9 East satellite platform. Though its studio is in Switzerland, the channel is broadcast from Milan in Italy. All the ex-TTN (Tamil Television Network) employees have been invited to work for the channel. The group has also re-started the transmission of another channel National Television of Tamil Eelam (NTT) from Vanni through Asiasat platform.

- Sri Lanka Guardian