May 17, Colombo: An LTTE plot to save their hardcore leaders from capture by the security forces using a high-level international envoy is unraveling in Sri Lanka.
A highly placed government source said a monitored conversation of LTTE’s chief negotiator Kumaran Pathmanadan, has revealed that the LTTE is planning to give the names of hardcore Tiger cadres to the high-level envoy as aid workers of UN and ICRC.
According to the sources a telephone call was placed to the envoy from Malaysia questioning whether he has obtained the list of names from the LTTE.
Informed sources say the high-level envoy is to hand over the list to the Sri Lankan government when he meets the government officials to secure the rescue of these senior LTTE cadres under the guise of international humanitarian aid workers.
If these Tiger cadres were killed during the military offensive the Sri Lankan government would be blamed for the deaths of humanitarian aid workers, the sources pointed out.
LankaPage.com