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Days after the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence threatened to \u201crehabilitate\u201d Northern Provincial Council (NPC) Member Ananthi Sasitharan<\/span><\/a> to prevent her from propagating \u201cseparatist sentiments\u201d, it has now announced that it was contemplating a probe of the nexus between the LTTE and the five-party Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the Island newspaper reported in its lead story today.<\/p>\n

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Secretary to the Ministry of Defence<\/p><\/div>\n

The newspaper that frequently publishes proclamations by Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> or \u201ca senior official in the Defence Establishment\u201d on its front page, said that the focus of the investigation would be on the close relationship between the LTTE and the TNA since late 2001, \u201cwhen the political grouping recognised the LTTE as the sole representatives of the Tamil speaking people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Island\u2019s Shamindra Ferdinando reported a “MoD official\u201d as saying \u201cwe intend to investigate senior TNA members including those in Parliament and the Northern PC. The investigation is aimed at ascertaining how the TNA\u2008influenced the LTTE strategy leading to war in mid 2006.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe MoD acknowledged that there hadn\u2019t been a comprehensive investigation into the TNA-LTTE nexus though some military officers felt an inquiry was a necessity. Responding to a query, the MoD said that except for last presidential polls in January 2010 when the TNA backed former army commander General Sarath Fonseka<\/span><\/a>, the alliance had worked closely with the LTTE at the general elections in 2001 and 2004,\u201d the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n

Earlier the same reporter quoted Defence Ministry official last week threatening to \u201crehabilitate\u201d Sasitharan, a TNA Councillor who obtained the second highest number of preferential votes in the September provincial poll. In that story, Ferdinando said the following: \u201cAsked whether the government was planning to hunt for those who had managed to avoid rehabilitation, the official said perhaps Ananthi wouldn\u2019t have adopted such a hostile stance towards the government and the military if she had undergone rehabilitation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sasitharan got in the crosshairs of the Ministry of Defence after she briefed Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp<\/span><\/a> in charge of the Office of Global Criminal Justice during his recently concluded visit to Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

The TNA accepted the LTTE as the sole representatives of the Tamil people during a time that the failure to do so would have meant brutal assassinations of the entire Tamil moderate leadership. The only Tamil leaders to refuse to do so were the EPDP\u2019s Douglas Devananda who had thrown in his lot in with the Rajapaksa administration and was permitted to carry arms and Anandasangaree who lived in a bunker in Colombo. Both Devananda and Sangaree were virtual prisoners in their own homes. Devananda escaped assassination at the hands of the LTTE at least seven times, the EPDP claims.<\/p>\n

Conversely LTTE leaders and senior rebel leaders who served as commanders and weapons procurer are now part and parcel of the -Rajapaksa Administration. Vignayamurthi Muralidharan was the Tigers Eastern Province Commander and functioned as the rebels\u2019 main military operations commander during the 2000 siege of Elephant Pass and other major combat missions, is now a Rajapaksa cabinet minister and Vice President of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.<\/p>\n

Kumaran Pathmanathan who was extracted from Kuala Lumpur by a special operations team was the LTTE\u2019s Chief Weapons Procurer and effectively LTTE leader following Prabhakaran\u2019s death in 2009. Pathmanathan runs a Government operated orphanage in Kilinochchi and lives free under the patronage of the Defence Secretary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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