Army reported today and then saw on Rupavahini news of the #13th Artillery that was captured from the LTTE so far..although the gun had sustained considerable damage following an air attack some weeks back, it still had the markings and the main components and was seen being towed away by a Military Truck.
And then there is a this latest acquisition, the destroyed LTTE T-55 Main Battle Tank! this tank was hit by counter fire from Sri Lanka Army Tanks while it engaged in LTTE defensive attacks in Puttukkudirippu area and was destroyed by sustained fire from Army Tanks and had toppled over into a ditch..
It was ,again shown on news today after it was upturned and taken out of the ditch. news claimed that it had remains of the bodies of three LTTE carders, presumably the crew of the tank, some unidentified type of shells, and some other contents intact along with the manufacturers operating manual!
Apart from the fact that its now being use as a weapon to attack Ranil Wikramasingha and his "Peace Talks' as the Rupavahi claim that it was brought to Sri Lanka by the LTTE from overseas during Peace talks...but so far they didn't claim it was brought inside bags of LTTE peace talk delegates..as that's the regular practice for any significant weapon found on the battle field.
However the methods of procurement, its time the Ministry of Defence set up a proper Weapons Forensics Team to look into all this captured equipments and chart out the origins of the such technology and armaments , just so that in the coming future the Government can engage in whatever way to thus deny such sources from being used by the LTTE or any other of its successors!
Also, it will be a good lessons learned for the International Community and interested States to clamp down on illegal arms trade that fuel so many bloody conflicts of the world.
May be by doing so,we might be able to uncover some of the missing 'humaniterian aid and funds' that poured into Vanni during the last couple of decades too..
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You know I've always thought that a sure fire way to prevent wars/terrorism would be to make the weapons manufacturers liable for the deaths caused by their products in the wrong hands (or heck even the right hands).
Unfortunately this would probably not gain much support because most of the weapons come from the US, China, France and Russia (I may have missed a couple of the other big players)
Hey Man thanks for the visit! Hope the bloody war ends soon and SL become what it is capable and more. Bloody arms dealers every where do not care about anything else but their coffers.
Anyway I hope a happy Sri Lankan New year for all!
Hi there, can email jpegs of the posters to you, pls email me your addy. tx
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