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AT MANKULAM EIGHT TAMIL TIGERS DIE IN AN AMBUSH BY A CLAYMORE MINE RECEIVING A DOSE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE

By Walter Jayawardhana

Military analysts in Colombo said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam may be getting a dose of their own medicine as eight Tamil Tigers are reported killed in an ambush by a claymore mine in their own territory.

They said either a secretive deep penetration unit of the Sri Lanka Army or a rival Tamil faction of the Tamil Tigers might have been responsible for the wayside claymore bomb that was exploded Tuesday July 10 that killed eight cadres of the Tamil Tigers.

The attack had occurred in Mankulam during the morning hours of Tuesday along the border of the Sri Lanka government and Tamil Tiger held areas.

Roadside claymore attacks is a military tactic so far vastly used by the Tamil Tigers against the Sri Lanka government troops and Sinhalese civilians.

The present phase of the war started after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam killed 68 Sinhalese civilians at Kebithigollewa by detonating two way side bombs targeting a civilian bus.
Until the former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe exposed Deep Penetration Units of the Army and promised to stop operating them in his peace accord Deep Penetration Units (DPU’s) were becoming a severe threat to the lives of the LTTE leadership. Once , Thamil Chelvam reportedly escaped such an ambush by the skin of his teeth. Making it to be a condition of the peace accord indicates the importance the LTTE leadership attached to the Army’s Deep Penetration Units and the amount they feared them .

They have reportedly lived in mortal fear of the units and after the exposure by the UNP killed some who were suspected of being the members of the unit.
Since the reported ambush occurred inside Tiger territory , it indicates either a DPU of the army or any other anti-Tiger unit has now gained the capability of penetrating inside LTTE territory using the same guerilla tactics used by the Tigers.

Both the army and the LTTE kept mum about the ambush but the Norwegian led Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission has told reporters that such an ambush had occurred killing the Tigers.

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