COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s terrorist problem, that claimed 100,000 lives, including 1,500
Indian soldiers, could have been nipped in the bud three decades ago, if only Colombo had
heeded a warning by a Tamil police officer in 1970, writes Gen Cyril Ranatunga, a former
Army Commander and Defence Secretary.
In his just released book From Peace to War, Insurgency to Terrorism Ranatunga says that
in a letter dated November 16, 1970, the Superintendent of Police of Jaffna district, R
Suntheralingam, had told the then Inspector General of Police at Colombo that smugglers
operating between Jaffna and Tamil Nadu were bringing in magazines propagating Tamil
nationalism.
Source:
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Lanka+ignored+warning+of+Tamil+
separatism+in+1970&artid=HYxHR87HUPQ=&SectionID=oHSKVfNWYm0=&MainSect
ionID=oHSKVfNWYm0=&SectionName=VfE7I/Vl8os=&SEO=Jaffna,%20Sri%20Lanka
Indian soldiers, could have been nipped in the bud three decades ago, if only Colombo had
heeded a warning by a Tamil police officer in 1970, writes Gen Cyril Ranatunga, a former
Army Commander and Defence Secretary.
In his just released book From Peace to War, Insurgency to Terrorism Ranatunga says that
in a letter dated November 16, 1970, the Superintendent of Police of Jaffna district, R
Suntheralingam, had told the then Inspector General of Police at Colombo that smugglers
operating between Jaffna and Tamil Nadu were bringing in magazines propagating Tamil
nationalism.
Source:
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Lanka+ignored+warning+of+Tamil+
separatism+in+1970&artid=HYxHR87HUPQ=&SectionID=oHSKVfNWYm0=&MainSect
ionID=oHSKVfNWYm0=&SectionName=VfE7I/Vl8os=&SEO=Jaffna,%20Sri%20Lanka
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