Pulidevan under house arrest, say Wanni sources
Seevaratnam Prabaharan alias Pulidevan, the so called
"peace secretary" of the terror outfit has been placed under house
arrest on direct orders of Terror Chief V. Prabhakaran, sources in the
Wanni say.
According to information received from defence
intelligence authorities, the arrest has been made as a result of a
worsening internal dispute among key LTTE figures. An armed gang led by
LTTE's intelligence wing leader Pottu Amman had made the arrest few days
back, the sources further reveal.
A senior defence intelligence official speaking to
defence.lk said, Prabhakaran's desire for fratricidal violence is no
secret.
In 1994, V. Prabhakaran ordered Pottu Amman to murder
an emerging leader of the terror outfit, Gopalasamy Mahendrarajah alias
Mahattaya, as he became too popular within the organization. Pottu
Amman, an Interpol wanted criminal like his psychopathic chief, got
Mahattaya arrested, tortured him in a dungeon for sometime and finally
murdered him together with over 200 of his loyalists. Prabhakaran is
holding Mahattaya's family hostage in the Wanni ever since.
Way back in 1973 when the terror outfit was in embryo,
Prabhakaran is also said to have betrayed Selvaduarai Yogachandran
(alias Kuttimani) because he was perceived as a threat. Kuttumani was
arrested on a tip-off from the LTTE itself and later killed in a prison
riot in 1983.
Defence.lk further learns from these sources, that
Pottu Amman has framed charges against Pulidevan for treachery against
the outfit. The bitter power struggle fought among the LTTE leaders has
led to bloody violence even in European countries where the loyalists of
different leaders fight internecine battles. According to some media
reports, Pulidevan was not seen at the funeral of Balraj, a prominent
LTTE leader who died of a heart attack recently.
Pulidevan was a member of the LTTE delegation that
engaged in a pretence of negotiations with the Sri Lankan government
during the failed ceasefire. |
