TMVP vows not to disarm
till LTTE is wiped out
The TMVP yesterday reiterated that they
would not disarm until the LTTE is totally
wiped out.
TMVP spokesperson Azath Moulana told The
Sunday Leader that they will not lay down
their arms as the threat by the LTTE still
prevailed.
The TMVP's refusal to disarm came amidst
claims by Defence Secretary Gotabaya
Rajapakse and Foreign Secretary Palitha
Kohona that only the police and security
forces were entitled to bear arms.
The government however has not taken any
steps to disarm the TMVP.
Moulana said the LTTE's presence in the
north was a threat to the breakaway faction
and added that the LTTE had to be wiped out
from the country before they could surrender
their weapons.
The TMVP cadres were attacked on several
occasions in the east during the local
government elections in Batticaloa in
February, he charged.
The TMVP blamed the LTTE for these attacks
despite government claims that terrorism was
totally wiped out from the east.
"The LTTE's strength is its military wing
and the intelligence wing. Once they are
destroyed, automatically, the LTTE would be
powerless. Both these factors have been
destroyed in the east," he said.
Uduman Lebbe, a UPFA minister at the eastern
provincial council on Monday also called for
the disarming of the TMVP, due to the many
allegations of child recruitment and
abductions.
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