Colombo, Feb 02: Two Divisions of Sri Lankan Army and hundreds of trapped Tamil civilians in the northern war zone had a close shave when security forces captured two Sea Tiger rebels as they were about to blow up a reservoir near Kilinochchi.
Colombo, Feb 02: Two Divisions of Sri Lankan Army and hundreds of trapped Tamil civilians in the northern war zone had a close shave when security forces captured two Sea Tiger rebels as they were about to blow up a reservoir near Kilinochchi. Though the Tiger rebels earlier blew up one or two smaller water bodies in an attempt to slow down the Sri Lankan forces' rapid advance on their strongholds, the Sea Tigers attempt to blast the Iranamadu Tank would have been catastrophic for the army, officials revealed today.
They admitted that if the Tigers had been successful, the Lankan army as well as its armoured columns would have got bogged down in mud and water, which the Tigers had planned.
As the Lankans got entangled in the slush, the Tigers had planned a swift incursion in boats to blast them, while their heavy artillery pounded them from positions a far.
The 57 division of the army revealed that they averted the disaster that was planned for January 25 or 28 after arresting two LTTE cadres, army officials said today.
According to the military sources, the LTTE militants had planned to launch a clandestine underwater suicide attack, exploding a section of the Iranamadu tank bund with over 75kgs of C-4 high explosives.
The detonation would have caused the destruction of the tank bund, flooding an entire land mass wrecking havoc, triggering a humanitarian catastrophe, what would have been the "worst ever in recent history", a military official said.
The Tigers had planned to place four 25 kg weighing 'limpet' mines (a type of mine with a magnetic base, frequently used by the LTTE to cause underwater detonation) which would have been carried by two suicide divers.
Lawyers burn effigies of Rajapaksa
group of advocates today burnt effigies of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa here, protesting the "killings" of civilian Tamils in the ongoing war in the island nation.
The advocates raised slogans against the Sri Lankan Government near the Egmore Metropolitan Court premises here, and demanded an end to the conflict between the Lankan army and the LTTE to save the Tamils, police said.
Lawyers affiliated to the Madras High Court Advocates Association and Tamil Nadu Advocates Association are on a boycott of the courts since January 30 over the Lankan issue.
Some students of the Dr B R Ambedkar Government Law College, located in the Madras High Court premises, were taken into custody when they tried to stage a demonstration in front of the college premises and later released.
The students urged the Lankan Government to bring an immediate ceasefire to protect the lives of civilian Tamils. They observed one-day fast after they were released, police said.
Meanwhile, All College Students Federation urged the Tamil Nadu Government to reopen colleges as it would help students to appear for their examinations.
The government on Saturday ordered indefinite closure of colleges and student hostels in the state in the wake of students' unrest on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue.
In a release, the federation also urged the students to participate in the strike on February 4 called by Sri Lankan Tamils Protection Movement protesting "killings of Tamils".
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