Arrest warrant issued for Prabhakaran (Lead)
January 27th, 2009 - 10:12 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )Colombo, Jan 27 (IANS) A Sri Lankan court has re-issued arrest warrants against Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran over the assassination of former foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar.The Colombo high court Monday also issued similar warrants against Prabhakaran’s intelligence chief Pottu Amman and two senior members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
The government identified the two as Charles Master and Komadee Manimekala.
The police told the court that they were unable to arrest the suspects because of the fighting in the north between the military and the LTTE.
Kadirgamar was assassinated by a suspected LTTE sniper at his residence in a posh Colombo district in August 2005.
Prabhakaran, the founder leader of the LTTE, is wanted in several cases in Sri Lanka, including a devastating bomb attack on the Central Bank in January 1996.
Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman are also wanted in India for the 1991 assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was blown up by a woman suicide bomber.
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka has banned the LTTE’s Voice of Tigers radio. The government said the broadcast license granted to VoT by the media ministry was withdrawn Monday.
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