VITAL information relating to persons and organizations here and abroad who had provided assistance to the LTTE in an extensive scale during its hey day have been revealed by LTTE leader Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP who is now in Sri Lanka's custody, said Foreign Employment and Welfare Minister and Government Defence spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella yesterday.
Pathmanathan who is now under intense interrogation has also divulged clues about LTTE arms procurement, narcotics trade and gun running activities, Rambukwella said.
Addressing a press conference at the Polgolla National Cooperative Development Institute yesterday, Minister Rambukwella said names of certain individuals and organizations including NGOs who had helped the LTTE in numerous ways by withholding their identities for fear of detection have also come out during interrogations.
He said if India needed to question Patmanathan about his role in the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi it could do so by sending a team of interrogators to Sri Lanka.
"As Sri Lanka was acting according to international agreements there was no possibility of handing over Pathmanathan to India," he said. Certain sections which tried to glorify the cowardly Prabhakaran as an invincible hero tried to do the same to Kumaran Pathmanathan too after Prabhakaran's death but our alert Intelligence officials had thwarted that attempt by capturing Pathmanathan, the Minister said.
"Our Security and Intelligence Forces which defeated Prabhakaran and his cohorts including K.P. would never allow LTTE terrorism to raise its head again in whatever form in the future," Rambukwella said. (Courtesy: Daily News)
