Internal rifts deepen in LTTE

Seevaratnam Prabaharan, alias Pulidevan, who is attached to the Tigers' peace secretariat, has been placed under arrest on the direct orders of Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Defence Ministry said.

"The arrest has been made as a result of a worsening internal dispute among key LTTE. "An armed gang led by LTTE's intelligence wing leader Pottu Amman had made the arrest few days back," the statement said.