Information About Incident 60165-120239-304645 in Ampara Sri Lanka

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The Sri Lankan Government on May 26 sought international police (Interpol) assistance to locate and arrest the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) arms procurement chief Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP who is believed to be hiding somewhere in South East Asia.

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• Meta Location: South East Asia
• Matched District: Ampara
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: The Sri Lankan Government
• Subject: the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam 's ( LTTE ) arms procurement chief Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP who is believed to be hiding somewhere in South East Asia

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The Sri Lankan Government on May 26 sought international police (Interpol) assistance to locate and arrest the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam s (LTTE) arms procurement chief Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP who is believed to be hiding somewhere in South East Asia. Government sources said countries alerted included Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand from where KP was believed to be operating while Australia and Britain were also indicated as likely countries where KP could be living. Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona confirmed to Daily Mirror that Interpol assistance was sought to have KP arrested and investigations into his whereabouts were currently underway. Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse in an interview with a private television station in the night of May 24 also called on the international community and Interpol to assist in arresting KP as he was an LTTE arms smuggler. It is reported that slain LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran had contacted KP in the final hours before his death and urged KP to rescue him and the trapped cadres from area the LTTE was cornered in. KP is said to have assured Prabhakaran that he was doing his best to get him and his cadres out of the North and had sought the assistance of leading figures in the international community to rescue the LTTE Leader. In the final hours Prabhakaran spoke to KP, urging him to save him. KP obviously gave him false hope that he was trying to do something, Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman said.

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