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Published on - 10/31/2005

ARMY OCC TELLS SLMM THAT TAMIL TIGERS BEHIND SLAYING

THE ARMY OPERATIONS COMMAND Colombo (OCC) on Monday (31) afternoon officially informed the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Headquarters and Director General, Secretariat for Coordinating Peace Process (SCOPP) that Tamil Tigers (LTTE) violated the provisions of the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) by assassinating Military Intelligence Officer Colonel T.R.Meedin RSP at Kiribathgoda National Housing Scheme.

The formal intimation to the SLMM came in the wake of Police investigations conducted so far into the brutal killing of this Senior Military Intelligence Officer during early hours on Sunday (30) while he was travelling in his car at Kiribathgoda. The OCC says the murder was a gross violation of the CFA.