Recovery of suicide bomb jacket from a house in Chavakachcheriya

Recovery of suicide bomb jacket from a house in Chavakachcheriya

A great deal of information has been uncovered by now about the person who had kept a suicide bomb jacket in addition to explosives in his possession in Chavakachcheri area in Jaffna, which incident created a sensation recently.

These suspicious articles were found in the house in Marawanlobu area in Chavakachcheri belonging

to a member of the Tiger Movement named Edward Juliet who has still not been rehabilitated. It has further been understood that this member of the Tiger Movement is in fact a close associate of  the leader of the Tiger Movement of Velupillai Prabhakaran.

A suicide bomb vest, 4 clemo bombs, a stock of explosives comprising 100 rounds of ammunition had been found during the raid. It has been discovered that members of the Tiger Movement and supporters of the Movement residing overseas have credited money to this suspect's bank account, it was found in investigations conducted and also that he had maintained very close relationships with members of the Tiger Movement living in Mannar and Trincomalee. This was revealed when a survey was conducted over telephone calls transacted across his phone.

A person by the name of Alagaratnam Sudakaran, a stalwart of the Tiger Movement who had lived in Batticaloa who having obtained citizenship in France had been transferring lakhs of money to this Tiger suspect Edward Juliet's bank account from 18.07.2014 . Apart from him, several others living in France had sent him money. On instructions received from him, the said suicide bomb jacket had been prepared by the suspect, using a part of this money. The ultimate plan of this had been to launch a terrorist suicide attack by employing someone; but the target in such a case has still not been exposed. A person to be sent by Sudakaran and living in France is to be handed over those items ready for this attack and the police say that the items were detected at a moment when such plans were to be implemented according to revelations made by the suspect, during interrogation.

It has further been revealed that during interrogation of the suspect a plan had been envisaged where a suicide bomb attack would be aimed at Vinayagamurthi Muralidaran (Karuna Amman), a former leader of the  Tiger Movement and a Deputy Minister of the previous regime or else, a Muslim commune. This attack was scheduled to be launched during the course of this year.

Information -- F. Aslam