{"id":36886,"date":"2012-04-02T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T11:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=36886"},"modified":"2012-04-02T11:22:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T11:22:51","slug":"india-dismisses-sri-lankan-newspapers-claim-on-ltte-training-camps-in-tamil-nadu-the-hindu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/india-dismisses-sri-lankan-newspapers-claim-on-ltte-training-camps-in-tamil-nadu-the-hindu\/","title":{"rendered":"India Dismisses Sri Lankan Newspapers Claim On LTTE Training Camps In Tamil Nadu &#8211; THE HINDU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0R. K. RADHAKRISHNAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/india-dismisses-sri-lankan-newspapers-claim-on-ltte-training-camps-in-tamil-nadu-the-hindu\/the_hindu-1-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36887\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36887\" title=\"the_hindu (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/the_hindu-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/the_hindu-1.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/the_hindu-1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a>A day before the Sri Lankan Parliament is to discuss the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution asking it, among other things, to implement the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, an English newspaper reported that 150 terrorists, trained in India, have landed in Sri Lankan shores in the grab of fishermen to destabilise the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cState intelligence services have received information that around 150 terrorists who underwent a special arms training at three secret camps in Tamil Nadu, have returned to Sri Lanka and are hiding in the North and the East to carryout a destabilisation campaign,\u201d The Island newspaper reported on Monday, quoting Sri Lankan state intelligence. \u201cTheir target was to sabotage and disrupt the on-going reconciliation process by creating in those areas, police sources said. Their activities came to light when three LTTE cadres taken into custody after an Eelam People\u2019s Democratic Party (EPDP) member was hacked to death in Trincomalee were interrogated,\u201d the newspaper added.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects had confessed that they had fled to India after LTTE\u2019s defeat, and \u201cfollowed military courses in secret locations in Tamil Nadu before returning to Sri Lanka, disguised as fishermen to conduct clandestine operations\u2026The intelligence services suspect that they may have been behind several killings reported from the North and the East.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indian High Commission denial<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued a shortwhile ago, the Indian High Commission in Colombo dismissed suggestions that there were LTTE-training camps in Tamil Nadu. \u201cThe suggestion contained in the news item regarding the training of terrorists at three secret camps in Tamil Nadu, India is entirely erroneous and baseless. Relevant agencies of the two countries have ongoing cooperation and no such information has been brought to the notice of the Government of India,\u201d a release from the High Commission said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36888\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/india-dismisses-sri-lankan-newspapers-claim-on-ltte-training-camps-in-tamil-nadu-the-hindu\/camp\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36888\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36888\" class=\" wp-image-36888\" title=\"camp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/camp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/camp.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/camp-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The LTTE training camp in Kulathur, Salem district, India, where the 16th batch was trained in 1985\/6. The photographs were taken by Wasanthan, an Indian national employed by the press section of the LTTE.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another newspaper, The Daily Mirror, said on Monday that \u201cinvestigations are underway to ascertain if the three suspects arrested in connection with the recent killing of an EPDP member in Kuchchaveli, were former LTTE members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, it was The Island that claimed that Sri Lankan President did not discuss the implementation of the 13th Amendment plus with Indian Foreign Minister S.M.Krishna, when the two met in Colombo in January this year. At an interaction with the country&#8217;s editors at Temple Trees on January 30, 2012, Mr. Rajapaksa \u201cdenied that he ever told India [this],\u201d the newspaper reported on January 31.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The fishermen angle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Island story claiming that the \u2018terrorists\u2019 had sneaked into the country disguised as fishermen is ominous for Tamil Nadu fishermen, who routinely crossover the International Maritime Boundary Line for fishing.<\/p>\n<p>The Island\u2019s India-heavy stories on page 1 on Monday, is a reflection of the official mood in Sri Lanka. The lead is titled \u2018UN demands repeal of India Armed Forces Act\u2019 and details last week\u2019s story on what the UN\u2019s Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions told the press in New Delhi. Another story, on the top of the page, is about the ownership of the land of the Trincomalee oil farm. The Farm was part-leased out to the Lanka Indian Oil Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Indian Oil Corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":36888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2201],"tags":[2380],"class_list":["post-36886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-from-foreign-media","tag-ltte-training-camps-in-tamil-nadu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>India Dismisses Sri Lankan Newspapers Claim On LTTE Training Camps In Tamil Nadu - THE HINDU - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/india-dismisses-sri-lankan-newspapers-claim-on-ltte-training-camps-in-tamil-nadu-the-hindu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"India Dismisses Sri Lankan Newspapers Claim On LTTE Training Camps In Tamil Nadu - 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