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| Sunday, 20 June 2004 |
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LTTE cadres sail to East by Ranga Jayasuriya The LTTE will ferry 90 cadres from the North to the East in LTTE boats tomorrow (21) in accordance with the agreement reached between the Government and the Tigers on the LTTE sea movement, Scandinavian truce monitors said. "The LTTE will ferry their cadres from Mullaitivu to Ilakkachchenai in the East in uncleared areas in three boats on June 21. Next day, the boats will leave for Mullaitivu," Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission Deputy Chief Haugrup Haukland told the Sunday Observer. Truce monitors will be on board which will be escorted by the Navy. Earlier, in 2002, the Government and the LTTE agreed on a set of conditions governing the LTTE's sea movement which has permitted the Tigers to ferry cadres between the LTTE controlled areas in the North and the East in vessels sailing under the SLMM flag. Last week, the LTTE abandoned plans to ferry cadres between the North and the East, following intense protests from the Navy with the Navy commander Vice Admiral Daya Sandagiri ordering his troops to intervene if the Tigers go ahead despite Navy warnings. The Navy objected to the LTTE demand to keep Tiger vessels four days in the East. But the Navy wanted the Tigers to leave the East within 24 hours, saying the presence of LTTE cadres and boats will be a risk to the security situation in the East, especially in the light of the on going factional war between the Prabhakaran and Karuna faction. The LTTE initially refused to give into the Navy order, but later agreed. |
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