The United National Party (UNP) and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) raised suspicions in Parliament today stating that former LTTE Commander Karuna Amman and the Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) were involved in some criminal incidents in the North and East.
UNP MP Nalin Bandara urged the Speaker to immediately seek clarification on Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman’s tweet in the context of the murders of two policemen in Batticaloa.
Two police constables, aged 28 and 35, were found dead under suspicious circumstances at a checkpoint at Vavunathivu in Batticaloa this morning. Police media spokesperson said that a special team from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has already been deployed to Batticaloa to conduct an investigation.
Speaking further, Nalin Bandara pointed out to Karuna’s tweet from November 27 which said that some UNPers are trying to scare him and that he would like to remind them about “Karuna Amman from before 2004”.
In this context, MP Bandara said that they are suspicious whether this tweet had anything to do with the murders that took place in Batticaloa this morning.
Meanwhile, TNA Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran told Parliament today that Karuna Amman’s group was suspected to be behind some crimes in Batticaloa.
He also said that the EPDP was suspected to be behind recent attacks in the North and said that its leader Douglas Devananda was going around telling people ‘he was back’.
The EPDP and the Karuna group was accused in the past of being involved in human rights abuses in the North and East.
The crimes committed by both groups had been listed by the United Nations (UN) with both sides categorically denying any involvement.
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