August 5, 2006 – (LankaWeb) At least one hundred fleeing Muslim war refugees from Mutttur taken into custody by the Tamil Tigers at one of their road block check points had been shot dead by them, eye witnesses said. Security services quoting eye witnesses said Tigers blocked the terrorists at PACHCHANOOR area and killed over hundred including women, youth and children during night on Friday , August 4.

Before the killing nearly one thousand Muslim protestors at Kathankudy said that the LTTE should stop killing innocent Muslims taken into custody by them. They alleged Muslims had been constantly kidnapped and killed by the Tamil Tigers. Many other fleeing war refugees said they witnessed this gruesome incident when they were passing the spot.

Before the conflict began these particular victims had been selling their home grown vegetables and fish caught in the sea for an income to the security forces , other refugees said. Since they came into contact with the terrorists constantly, they were regularly suspected of passing information about the Tigers to the security forces, the survivors of the area said. These unfortunate fleeing Muslim families faced this since they had to go through a LTTE check point while fleeing along Kanthale road, the eye witnesses said.

Killing defenseless prisoners under their custody is a common practice among the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam since its very inception. At the end of the peace talks with the former UNP government of the late President Ranasinghe Premadasa the LTTE ordered police officers amounting to 600 in the still troubled Eastern Province to surrender. Although, the police officers wanted to fight back, the President still wanting to save the tottering peace talks wanted them to surrender. Those police officers, with their hands bound in back were made to walk to a mass grave and shot dead.

Before that, during the internecine fratricidal warfare between Tamil groups Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO) leader “Tall” Sri Sabarathnam surrendered with over one hundred supporters of him to Velupillai Prabhakaran the leader of the LTTE. The LTTE terrorists bound them to trees and burnt them alive, as others witnessed.

From: http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items06/070806-12.html