Stewart Bell, National PostPublished: Tuesday, April 28, 2009
COLOMBO -- A senior member of the Tamil Tigers who surrendered to Sri Lankan troops last week is urging the cornered rebels to lay down their arms.
Velayutham "Daya Master" Dayanithi said the Tamil rebels were using civilians as human shields and had fired at those who attempted to flee the war zone.
The "LTTE was keeping the Tamil people as hostages," he said, using the acronym for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels. "Nearly 200 civilians died due to LTTE fire. LTTE propaganda was that these people died because of military shelling."
The Tamil Tigers' former media coordinator, Mr. Dayanithi, who goes by his nom de guerre Daya Master, gave himself up on April 20 after crossing the frontline from the rebel-held area to the government side. He is now detained in Colombo.
The National Post viewed a video recording of the interview. It was conducted Saturday under military supervision but he appeared relaxed as he told his story and answered questions on camera.
i wonder what sort of responses that this article would generate from the supporters of the LTTE.. now that one of their own is speaking about the atrocities committed by the group.. and keep in mind that this is no ordinary foot-soldier either.. i am betting that they will go with the "forced confession" approach..
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely... I think you right.. They'll come out and point to the microphone or something and say, it was a gun pointed at him and he lied... LOL!
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