Kebitigollaw massacre conspiracy exposed!

The Sunday Times Defense Correspondent Iqbal Athas has inadvertently exposed the thinking behind the Kebitigollaw massacre conspiracy of the Sri Lankan state. His situation reported dated 18 June 2006 was dotted with details and the case for such a mindless and bloody campaign by the Sri Lankan state.

Athas is well known for his limitless sources inside the Ministry of Defense, particularly in the intelligent services of Sri Lankan military who often talk exclusively to him on the condition of anonymity. He got carried with the excitement and the trust his anonymous sources had on him to perform the spindoctering on the state orchestrated Kebitigollaw massacre.

The following are few snippets of his rather creative attempt to hide the guilt and the desperation shown to pin the blame on LTTE and discredit them internationally.

Colombo's highly hostile mindset, fuming hatred aflot in the defence circle and the ultimate capitulation is exposed.

"Days ahead of the LTTE team's arrival in Colombo, there was a debate in the defence and security establishment whether a helicopter should be made available. This was on the basis that they did not deserve one since they refused to sit down and talk in Oslo with a Government delegation. One suggestion was to send them by bus to Omanthai and have them cross over the stretch of "no man's" land into the guerrilla-held entry-exit point. Another was for the helicopter to land in Omanthai so the team could walk across. However, it was pointed out that the Government had given an assurance to airlift them and that had to be honoured.

The next morning (Thursday) a claymore mine exploded in Kebethigollawa, some 55 kilometres north east of the sacred city of Anuradhapura."

The frustration that state orchestrated massacre was not sung in harmony.

Alas, for a Government that has been thrust with an unexpected Eelam War IV, getting their message across to Sri Lankans and the world outside appears to be at odds. They are speaking in different voices.

The first official response on Thursday morning came from the Government Information Department. Titled "Government Press Release," the two paragraph statement gave no details about the incident. It only strongly condemned the barbaric and inhuman killing of dozens of innocent civilians. Who did it? There was no reference in the statement to the perpetrators - the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). It simply said "the government is aware that the aim of terrorists is to instigate a backlash in order to fulfill their evil designs."

Athas explains through his anonymous contacts' own words why claymore was the weapon of choice and how the link to the LTTE is fabricated to be beyond doubt.

"He (a high ranking state intelligence official) said there was "convincing evidence that the Kebethigollawa massacre was carried out by the LTTE using the most common weapon in their arsenal now, the claymore mine."

"A second unexploded claymore mine remained to tell the story of the mastermind behind the mass murder. That is if one was in doubt. Not many were. Such claymore mines are the hallmark of Tiger guerrillas."

The full version of the 18 -June 2006 Situation Report:

http://www.tamillinks.net/archive/2006/new...ep_18062006.htm