Situation Report as at UTC 0730 (1330) 06 February 2006

BATTICALOA

LTTE Abducted Principal Returns After Detention

LTTE ABDUCTED SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, attached to VALACHCHENAI Hindu College, Mr. MURUGARASU THAVARASA (56) on 04th February 2006 around 2.10 p.m. returned home after he was detained at KARADIYANARU LTTE camp for questioning after he was taken away by an LTTE cadre identified as ANBU.

The school Principal was taken away by the LTTE on Thursday (02) morning at about 11.45 a.m. after the LTTE cadre, ANBU has called him out to a place close to PECHCHIAMMAN Kovil in VALAICHCHENAI. The deputy principal, the following day (03) in a complaint made to the VALAICHCHENAI Police station confirmed his abduction. (See Situation Report on 03rd February 2006) However, the released school Principal on Saturday (04) around 4.50 p.m. approached the VALAICHCHENAI Police for formal complaint and claimed that he was by force taken by the said LTTE cadre to the KARADIYANARU LTTE camp where he was questioned and subsequently detained.

The victim further claimed another LTTE cadre of the LTTE education section made inquiries about a past incident before he was set free on Saturday (04). The matter was to be intimated to the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM).

The VALAICHCHENAI Police investigations are on.

Son abducted by LTTE, complains father

THE FATHER OF A TWENTY-TWO YEAR OLD YOUNGSTER reported to the MAVADIVEMBU Army camp in BATTICALOA that his son, KUMARA MOHAN RAJ (22) was abducted by two armed LTTE cadres while he was at home at about 9.15 p.m. on Sunday (5th).

The victim, according to the Police was at home on SEVADI ROAD, MAVADIVEMBU when those two-armed LTTE men stormed their house and took their son away by force. The victim's father has however waited for his son's return for some time but later approached the nearest MAVADIVEMBU Army camp for complaint at about 9.35 p.m. the same night. However, the troops have referred the complainant to the ERAVUR Police station for formal complaint.

The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) was to be informed.

The ERAVUR Police are conducting investigations