Tigers Want Residents around SF Establishments to Move Out

(November, 14, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) According to the Military sources, LTTE or their agents, mingling with ordinary Mannar-based peace-loving people with carefully orchestrated plans have begun to infuse a wave of fear-psychosis among civilians in the area by ordering them to vacate their homesteads before 27th November 2007 or face LTTE consequences.

“The LTTE’s machination in this regard was brought to the fore when terrorist elements distributed a leaflet among households in the area asking civilians, resident close to security points and military detachments to move out from their homes before the deadline without giving any specific reasons,” government based news web site on national security said.

“The leaflet printed in Tamil with LTTE emblem has been dropped in their gardens by secretly operating LTTE agents or their supporters saying that those occupants should move beyond 5 km away from the security detachments before that day,” the report also added.

Fear-stricken Tamil people who approached security authorities after receipt of the LTTE ultimatum while expressing outrage were assured fullest security network by the Security Forces and requested not to vacate their houses as demanded by the LTTE.