 Return to LNP
|
|
Tapes reveal LTTE training by Norway
Sunday, 19 December 2004 - 8:39 PM SL Time
|
|
|
Voice cuts from tapped telephone conversations purportedly between Norwegian officials and the LTTE were played, when panellists at the `Colombo conference` organised by the WAPS group of Sri Lankan Expatriates, and the `Sandsadaya`` forum, made the potentially explosive revelations about ``Norwegian complicity with the LTTE in subverting the Sri Lankan state``, at the BMICH yesterday. Very clear footage was also shown of Norwegian armed personnel training LTTE cadres in the Rena Norwegian Army camp. Though the Norwegians had gone on record as saying that the training was for `peaceful purposes` the video footage showed LTTE personnel being trained in armed vehicle operations and underwater manoeuvres -- ``anything but training for peaceful purposes,`` averred Mr. Rovik in his paper.
In one audio tape former Norwegian ambassador in Colombo Jon Westborg says, `we Norwegians will pay the difference`` in the deal discussing a secret plan to ship advanced communications equipment -- a type which even the Sri Lankan government did not possess. Westborg at one point in the clearly audible tape played on a sophisticated computer-aided sound mapping and audio replay device says, `the Norwegians will pay the difference (in the matter pertaining to sound equipment)`` but cautions the LTTE man to `make all correspondence to the ambassadors home at 55/1 Gregory`s Road, Colombo and not the embassy,`` for reasons of secrecy.
|
|
|
|
