Karuna group quits anti-LTTE alliance in Batticaloa
Irish Sun (IANS) Monday 7th January, 2008
The recently forged anti-Tamil Tiger political alliance in the eastern Sri Lankan Tamil-speaking district of Batticaloa has split.
The Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Puligal (TMVP) founded by the breakaway Tamil Tiger leader, Col. Karuna, has announced that it will go it alone in the forthcoming local body elections.
'Our intention is to test the political waters in Batticaloa, and see how much support we, as TMVP, have among the people here. We are in active politics for the last two years, and are keen to know how effective we have been,' TMVP spokesman Azad Mowlana told IANS over phone from Batticaloa Monday.
On Dec 29 last year, the TMVP, the Peoples' Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), the Eelam Peoples' Revolutionary Liberation Front-Padmanabha (EPRLF-P) and the Eelam Peoples' Democratic Party (EPDP) had resolved to form a common front against the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), which is pro-LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam).
But at a meeting Saturday, the TMVP gave it in writing that it was withdrawing from the alliance and going it alone in the elections due this March.
Serious differences between the TMVP and other anti-Tamil Tiger parties have come to light.
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