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LTTE flags in Govt. areas : SLMM to meet Army, LTTE by Ranil Wijayapala The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission is to raise the matter of hoisting the LTTE flag in government controlled areas with the Army and the LTTE as truce monitors were ignored and humiliated by LTTE cadres yesterday in Vavuniya over this issue. SLMM Spokesperson Agnes Bragadottir told the Daily News yesterday that around 20 LTTE women cadres and around 50 other females attending a development seminar in Vavuniya Urban Council angrily reacted to truce monitors who requested them not to hoist LTTE flags. The truce monitors made a request from the LTTE cadres and the organisers of the seminar following a complaint from the Sri Lanka Army about the hoisting of the LTTE flag at a public building in a government controlled area. "The crowd at the scene were angry and verbally abused the truce monitors", Bragadottir added. The SLMM considers the hoisting of LTTE flag in government-controlled areas as a violation of the ceasefire as the Sri Lanka Army terms such incident as provocative moves by the LTTE. "The SLMM gets the blame from both the LTTE and the Army over this issue and the SLMM Chief has decided to raise this matter again with the LTTE and the Army," Bragadottir added. |
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