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A child rookie of LTTE surrenders to security forces- BatticaloaAn underaged child recruit who claims to have been forcibly abducted by the LTTE, militarized and exposed to labour, hours of fatigue, surrendered to the security forces at a road block at Polwattha General area in Batticaloa, yesterday (13) at 10:40 a.m. The surrendee, a fifteen year old revealed that the organisation no more send sufficient food to the cadres in the front, while many of the eastern cadres were used as scapegoats to sustain the advancing military thrust in Thoppigala. According to the revelations made by the surrendered rookie, major disputes have occurred between the Wanni and the eastern leadership over the losses in the eastern battle fronts. Earlier, reports obtained from the surrendees in the east also claimed that Ramesh and Jeyam, both leaders of the eastern fronts were battling a cold war within the organisation. The Media Centre for National Security said that a total number of 645 LTTE cadres have surrendered themselves to the security forces, consisting 454 alone from the east since 2002. All the surrendered cadres are being rehabilitated and gradually injected to the normal social life. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SL Naval troops apprehend LTTE logistic movement- MannarSL Naval troops operating in the coast of Pesalai area in Mannar apprehended an LTTE logistic sea movement recovering 10 sacks of cement, while arresting 05 terrorist suspects in the course yesterday (13), at 03:30 p.m. The Naval troops on observation duties detected a suspicious boat movement consisting of three fibre glass dinghies (FGDs) along the coastal waters, 'making-way' towards the un-liberated shoals off Vedithalathivu, North of Mannar. The Naval sea units intercepted the boat movement having already informed the suspicious boats to drift until initial investigations were done and the boats cleared off. On sighting the arrival of the SLN sea units the terrorist suspects onboard the FGDs had thrown overboard 10 cement filled sacks intended to be transported to the un-liberated areas, on instructions of the LTTE. Later according to the Naval Spokesperson Commander D.K.P Dassanayake, 05 terrorist suspects were arrested, who were onboard the FGDs and handed over to the Talaimannar Police for further investigations.
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