LTTE triggers 'humanitarian catastrophe': blasts off Kalamadukulam
Tank bund - Mullaittivu [Updated]
 LTTE
terrorists have blasted off the Kalamadukulam Tank bund this morning (Jan
24) in a desperate attempt to stall the multi-frontal military surge
towards Visuamadu area, latest reports from the Mullaittivu battlefront
said. "This is totally an inhuman act with least respect to the lives of
innocent Tamil civilians entrapped in the area", a defence official said
while urging worldwide condemnation for the terrorist act.
Terrorists have used high explosives and triggered the
detonation flooding a section of the A-35 Paranthan - Mullaittivu main road,
Ramanatpuram, Dharmapuram and Visuamadu. LTTE terrorists had resorted to
this cheap tactic after suffering heavy beating by the security forces
during intense fighting that erupted since Friday (23), Northeast of
Kalamadu and Nethiliaru, security sources said. Terrorist resistances
were beaten comprehensively in the ground battles, which left its
fighting formations in total disarray, security sources said.
According to defence observers, the floods will also
worsen the LTTE orchestrated humanitarian crisis at Mullaittivu with
hundreds confined to small land patches and deprived of relief or aid
supplies. Earlier, LTTE terrorists made a similar attempt to destroy the
Iranamadu Tank bund to dismantle the multi-pronged military advance
during the battle for Kilinochchi.
Kalamadukulam Tank the second largest in the embattled
region spreads over 4.5sq.km. with a capacity
of supplementing irrigation water to over 500 acres of land. The tank
was at spill level due to the recent North East monsoon, area military
sources said. "Not only LTTE had created a humanitarian catastrophe but have also shown their
utmost contempt for the very people once they said to 'represent'," defence observers further stated.
Earlier, on 2006, security forces were drawn to take
military action to save over 15,000 civilians who were deprived of their
irrigation and drinking water by the LTTE. The LTTE terrorists closed
the irrigation canal at Mavil Aru on 20th June, 2006, draining water
supply to over 30,000 acres of land.
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