RED ALERTS GO FOR TWO LTTE FUGITIVES KANNAN AND KIRUBA AT TAMIL NADU AIRPORTS AND COASTAL POLICE STATIONS

By Walter Jayawardhana

A red alert has gone across all airports in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu to stop a Tamil Tiger fugitive who was trying to escape the law enforcing authorities and go to Sri Lanka.

The man , an important arms buyer for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) named Kiruba alias Kirubhakaran is badly wanted by the Indian law enforcement authorities in connection with the loads of raw materials bought and and shipped from India for the manufacture of deadly claymore mines.

The airports have been alerted since the Police came to know Kiruba was trying to travel unnoticed not through the usual way he comes and goes by illicit boats but by using the passport and by air.
The Indian law enforcement authorities think that he was in charge of procuring explosives, steel balls and metal beams necessary for the manufacture of Improvised Explosive Devices and making payments on behalf of the LTTE.

The Indian law enforcement personnel are also in search of another man named Kannan who was engaged in the same job but Kirubas role in the procurements of IED’s have been well established.
The Police have obtained some photographs of Kiruba who hails from Jaffna, the Northern town of Sri Lanka. The Police obtained the photographs from Dhamodaran another accused in the custody of the police in connection of the same case. Dhamodaran is not from Sri Lanka and he lives in the Tamil Nadu state town of Madurai in India.

Police think Kiruba is a person who has visited India several times and possesses the Sri Lanka passport. He has done business and met with persons across Tamil Nadu in the cities of Madurai, Tuticorin, Ramanathapuram, Tiruchi and Chennai. Described as a stocky man in middle age the Police believes he had sent several illegal consignments to Sri Lanka.

The police have come to known both Kiruba and Kannan had been helped by a man named Veluchamy of Ammayapuram near Kodai Road in Madurai to establish the illegal arms network in Tamil Nadu.

The Deputy Inspector General of Police in Ramanadapuram Range , S.S. Krishnamurthy said all police stations on the coast of Tamil Nadu also had been put on alert about these two individuals so that they cannot escape by illicit boats either.