Information About Incident 40854-78212-192369 in Kalutara Sri Lanka

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Ram had left for the North after his cadres were killed by the Special Task Force personnel during several clashes following LTTE's defeat in the East.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: North East
• Matched District: Kalutara
• Actgroup: kill
• Actor: by the Special Task Force personnel
• Subject: his cadres

Context

This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam''s (LTTE) Eastern Province leader Ram, who had escaped from the Army, was re-arrested on November 9, reports The Island. The Army arrested him following a massive search operation conducted in the Minneriya forests. Ram had been under interrogation in an Army camp in the Giritale area of Polonnaruwa Distict, when he escaped on November 7. With the escape of Ram, the Army commenced a search operation with over 3,000 soldiers deployed to trace him down. He was arrested while he was hiding in the forests near the Minneriya tank. Ram had been appointed to the leadership of the LTTE's Eastern Province following the defection of Karuna Amman. He had a through knowledge of the terrain in the East and led a number of attacks against the Security Forces. Ram had left for the North after his cadres were killed by the Special Task Force personnel during several clashes following LTTE's defeat in the East.

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