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Video cassette with footage of crime scene in Mutur lost


By Sumaiya Rizvi

The special Police team investigating into the killing of the ACF workers had not taken into custody two vital video cassettes containing footage of the crime scene before the bodies were removed and as a result of this one of the video cassettes has gone missing, head of the special investigating team accepted yesterday, testifying at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to investigate and inquire into serious violations of Human Rights in which the killing of 17 aid workers in Mutur is been investigated.

We did not take it into our custody since the CID was supposed to take over soon the witness said. Although the witness admitted that he had carried out his investigation two weeks after the Criminal Investigation Team (CID) took over and therefore should have ensured the safety of the cassette, which could have been vital evidence.

Tigers recover 8 SLA bodies, seize 18 weapons in Ki'laali fighting

it started at midnight /air mobile brigade was used in kilalia nd muhamali after 10 hours of fighting sla did a runner more than 100 were killed and more than 400 injured /tanks destroyed and a few captured.

16 Dec 2008 13:52:24 GMT

With the war assuming huge proportion, the LTTE has been left with no other choice but to aggressively scout for fuel to power their defence and supply vehicles.

An official of the coastal base station in Kochi, which undertakes patrolling up to 12 nautical miles off coast, said they had come across fishing boats fitted with additional overhead tanks filled with diesel.

The overhead tanks, mainly used to store fresh water, had concealed compartments to carry additional quantity of diesel. Above all, the boats fill their tanks beyond the required capacity for the journey. As of now, there is no legal framework to restrict the boats from carrying additional quantity of diesel, the official said.

He said though the patrolling team had impounded various boats, they get away saying that they required more fuel to be in sea for more number of days.

A mechanism should be in place to check the quantity of diesel consumed by the boats, other wise they will keep on illegally selling the government-subsidised diesel to third parties, he said adding that the majority of the crew in the fishing boats were from Tamil Nadu.

Confirming that there were certain reports of diesel pilferage at the mid sea by the fishermen to the LTTE, an official of the Fisheries Enforcement Department said their duty was very much confined to checking the registration of the trawlers.

Our job is to assist the Fisheries Department and make sure that the trawlers confined to rules and regulations laid down by the Fisheries Department, he added. Fisheries Department deputy director K L Raveendran said the government provided a subsidy of Rs 1.50 per litre for diesel for the fishing boats and it was limited to a maximum of Rs 1,500 per month for a trawler.

We have limited the subsidy to ensure that no fishing boats misuse it, he said.

However, Coast Guard (DIG) Vijay Chafekar said they had so far not received any information in this regard.

Neither the Kerala Marines nor the Fisheries Enforcement have apprised us of the developments. We will conduct an investigation into the incident once we get the details in writing from the departments concerned

The Sri Lankan army was charged with the murders and the CID and the police who are all Sinhalese did not collect the vital evidence, why? They do not want to incriminate the obvious culprits.

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