20.4.2008
Peace
Secretariat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam reports
that Rev. Fr. Karunaratnam, chairperson of the North East
Secretariat for Human Rights, (NESHOR), an organization
under the control of the Tamil Separatist outfit, Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam was killed by a claymore attack
on the Mallavi – Vavunikkulam Road, at 12.30pm today.
Mallavi
is a town located 5 kilometers before Thunukkai, an area
controlled by the LTTE. However Peace Secretariat of the
Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam reported that Rev Fr Karunaratnam
was killed by a claymore attack, carried out by the Sri
Lanka Army Deep Penetration Unit.
Even
earlier the Peace Secretariat for LTTE reported on 06
March, that the Jaffna District Tamil National Alliance
parliamentarian, K. Sivanesan, was killed in a Claymore
attack carried out by the Sri Lanka Army Deep Penetration
Unit on his way to his residence at Mallavi.
It
is mystifying to note that how the Sri Lanka Army Deep
Penetration Unit could enter into an area controlled by
LTTE, to lay claymore mines to kill civilian leaders,
earlier the parliamentarian K.Sivnesan and now Rev. Fr.
Karunaratnam of the NESHOR
According
to the press release of the Peace Secretariat for LTTE,
Rev Fr Karunaratnam a longtime human rights activist was
the founder – Chairperson, of NESOHR which is the
foremost human rights body operating in the LTTE administered
areas.
The
press release further added, Rev Fr Karunaratam was also
a working Catholic priest and he was serving in Jaffna
until 2006, and the church transferred him to Vanni fearing
for his life at the hands of the death squads operating
in Jaffna.
Courtesy - Asian
Tribune