
LTTE cadres barred from travelling through Omanthai military
The Omanthai military checkpoint in Vavuniya was closed for
several hours on Sunday morning. Later, even when it
reopened, LTTE cadres were barred from travelling through
it. This is a violation of article 1.13 of the Memorandum of
Understanding between LTTE and the Sri Lankan government.
A team of LTTE political division workers lead by Gnanam,
head of the Vavuniya district political section, which
attempted to travel from Vavuniya to Vanni were stopped at
the Omanthai military checkpoint. The military personnel
explained that they were following orders to close the
checkpoint. The LTTE team had to go back to Vavuniya. Gnanam lodged a complaint of ceasefire violation with SLMM. Civilians who tried to travel through the checkpoint were
told that the LTTE checkpoint after this was not opened and
that is why they are not allowing people to travel. However,
Gnanam said that this is a lie and the security forces are
spreading this story to bring bad reputation to the LTTE.
15 August 2005
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