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KARUNA SENT FROM A JAIL TO AN IMMIGRATION DETENTION CENTER

by Rangajeewa Rajakaruna

Karuna Amman alias Vinayagamurthy Muralitharan , the former leader of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) has been released from a British jail and detained in an immigration centre, May 8.

British Home Ministry source said, “ He is detained under immigration powers of the government.”
It is customary for the British authorities to request the Sri Lanka High Commission in London to issue temporary travel documents for him to be deported to Sri Lanka. Those travel documents are different from a passports and a limited to a piece of paper carrying the photograph of the traveller. Sri Lanka High Commission sources in London said so far they have not received a request for the issuance of such a document from the British Home Office.

He fled to Britain, where his wife Vidhyawathie and her three children are living in London and got arrested, November 2 2007 for travelling with a forged diplomatic passport. He was later convicted on the offence and spent time in the jail.

Political analysts say the breakaway of Colonel Karuna, the man who was in charge of the Eastern Province under the LTTE was the beginning of the end of the Tamil terrorist outfit. After his departure the LTTE lost the sprawling Eastern Province to Sri Lanka government security forces. Karuna’s departure is believed to have supplied a pot of gold in intelligence to the Sri Lankan forces to drive away the Tamil Tigers from the province.

During his days under the LTTE he is believed to have carried out the most ruthless commands of his then leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. His child soldiers supplied a constant source of manpower to the LTTE and he once ordered to kill 600 Sinhala and Muslim police officers point-blank in Nazi style, in the Eastern Province jungles of Thirukkovil, after they surrendered to him. Much of the large amount of money Karuna is supposed to have brought from Sri Lanka is believed to have been invested with the help of a Tamil activist living in London owning some Hindu temples and operating with India’s RAW concerning Sri Lankan affairs

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