The intelligence wing of the LTTE has cautioned the Tamil people not to give credence to any speech one of its intelligence operatives may give on Martyrs Day on Friday as he is now in the custody of the Sri Lankan army. A press release e-mailed by one Kathirkamathambi Arivazhagan, in charge of external intelligence [...]
According to a reliable Defence Ministry source LTTE’s former International head Selvarasa Pathmanathan, well known as KP is said to have undergone severe torturing in the hands of the intelligence operatives to extract information from him. The source said KP is held in the Panagoda army camp in the outskirts of Colombo. Uncooperative KP was [...]
It has come to light that K.P. has time and again urged Prabhakaran to negotiate with the Sri Lankan Govt. India took a lot of pains and interest to interrogate K.P. in connection with the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi when he was taken into custody. At the outset, the Indian secret intelligence service, ‘RAW’ requested [...]
The Rajiv Gandhi assassination case is back under the spotlight. The Multi-disciplinary Monitoring Agency constituted in 1998 to probe the conspiracy angle in the case, and which got a fresh lease of life with the nabbing of Selvarasa Pathmanathan or KP by the Sri Lankan government recently is all set to despatch a team to [...]
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were set to get 10 new aircraft through an Eritrea-based arms smuggling network as the war against the Sri Lankan army was reaching its climax. The aircraft had been dismantled and were to be shipped to the north-eastern coast of Sri Lanka when the war reached a decisive [...]
An engineer of a private ship owned by LTTE’s foreign chief Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP, who arrived through Bandaranaike International Airport was nabbed by State Intelligence Services (SIS) last morning. The engineer identified as Ratnasekaram, a resident of Point Pedro had been a close associate of KP and had served as the engineer of one [...]
Sri Lankan experts on terrorism have said that the LTTE maintained a front company in Karachi to arrange arms smuggling and a safe house in Peshawar for contacts with Taliban. According to Shanaka Jayasekara, who carried out research on terrorism at the Macquarie University of Australia, LTTE’s arms procurer Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP travelled from [...]
India will soon approach Sri Lanka to interrogate arms dealer and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) financier Kumaran Padmanathan, currently in the island nation’s custody, for his alleged involvement in the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, a senior Indian Home Ministry official said Sunday. “India’s Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Agency, probing the case, [...]
India yesterday decided to make an extradition request for the self-proclaimed LTTE leader Kumaran Pathmanathan, alias KP and is to send a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team next month to grill KP on the “larger conspiracy” behind the 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassination.Indian Home Ministry sources said the multi-disciplinary monitoring agency (MDMA) under the CBI [...]
When LTTE was conclusively defeated from Sri Lankan soil and Prabhakaran was killed and no signs of the survival of second in command Pottu Amman, the Tamil Diaspora still wanted to continue their struggle for Eelam and supported the Interpol fugitive self proclaimed leader Kumaran Pathmanathan who has many aliases. Unexpectedly for the Tamil Diaspora, [...]
The United States Tamil Political Action Council vehemently condemns the illegal act of the Sri Lanka government and its military outfits for the abduction and deportation of Mr. Selvarasa Pathmanathan, the newly appointed Secretary General of the post-conflict LTTE. We join human rights activists all over the world who have voiced their protest at the [...]
The Sri Lankan defence secretary has called on foreign countries to hand over Tamil Tiger rebels and their assets, worth of millions of dollars. The demand by Gotabaya Rajapaksa came weeks after the arrest of the new Tamil Tiger leader, Selvarasa Pathmanathan. Mr Pathmanathan was arrested in a South East Asian nation earlier this month [...]
The Tamil diaspora does not appear to be much perturbed over the arrest of K.P alias Kumar Pathmanathan. There are also no signs of chaos and confusion among them going by the announcements made from time to time. It is indeed something intriguing and baffling why the Diaspora which stages demonstrations on even trifles is [...]
Indian investigating agencies are likely to demand the extradition of Kumaran Pathmanathan, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief now in police custody in Sri Lanka, to uncover the “real story” behind the Rajiv Gandhi assassination. Pathmanathan, one of the senior-most surviving leaders of the LTTE, is learnt to have played a pivotal role [...]
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