LTTE using anti-personnel mines again

An Anti-Personnel Mine has been used by the LTTE in Trincomalee for the first time since the CFA was signed in 2002. A soldier on road duty near Allers Garden in Trincomalee was seriously injured when the Anti-Personnel Mine exploded.

TRINCOMALEE: An Anti-Personnel Mine has been used by the LTTE in Trincomalee for the first time since the CFA was signed in 2002.

A soldier on road duty near Allers Garden in Trincomalee was seriously injured when the Anti-Personnel Mine exploded.

The renewed use of Anti-Personnel Mines by the LTTE is particularly disturbing given the extensive funding that international organisations have provided the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) for de-mining in the North-East. The TRO widely known as a front organisation of the LTTE.

The organisations that have funded the TRO for de-mining projects include Norwegian People's Aid, the Mines Advisory Group, Fondation Suisse de Deminage and the Danish De-mining Group.