ARMY AND POLICE DISCOVER WEAPONS AND INSURGENT MATERIALS IN
THE CAMPUS PREMISES OF JAFFNA UNIVERSITY

By Walter Jayawardhana

The Sri Lanka Army combined with the Jaffna police in a cordon and search operation discovered weapons and other materials connected with terrorism in Northern Sri Lanka’s premier campus of the Jaffna University, the army announced .

Issuing photographs connected with the items discovered in the operation the army said, the most worrisome was the find of fifteen anti-personal mines, with all the hall marks of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) .

The army said the anti-personal mines are used to assemble anti-tank mines by the Tamil insurgents. The army said the mines were hidden under a bush in the campus premises.

The police and army cordoned off the state run university premises when a Tamil civilian tipped off the security services that the learning institution run with millions of state money was being used with impunity by the LTTE for an illegal insurgency .

The operation also discovered bundles of propaganda literature like leaflets printed asking the security services personnel to desert their forces, a large number of separatist flags of the jumping tiger, huge cut outs of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, anti-government posters and large number of leaflets intended to demoralize the soldiers, computers with LTTE related software, a cupboard of medicines and dressings for injuries, a large number of posters connected with the insurgency, a color printer and a telephone in a room reserved for the terrorists.
One person was arrested in connection with the keeping of the illegal material.