COLOMBO, Sept. 18, Reuter: Indian soldiers in Sri Lanka will shoot Tamil militants
Who refuse to surrender their weapons government officials said Friday. They said the policy was adopted after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam massacred up to 75 unarmed rivals in the eastern district of Batticaloa last week.
“The message has gone to the ‘militants that they risk an armed “Confrontation with the Indians it they refuse a challenge to surrender their weapons”, one official told Reuters.
He said patrols by a joint team, of Sri Lankan police and Indian sent to the north and cast to soldiers would challenge gunmen to surrender their weapons immediately if they refuse, the troops will open fire,” he said.
He said the patrols had so far not come across any Tiger gunmen or Tiger roadblocks set up to catch rivals from the Eelam People’s Prominent itizensin Batticaloa Revolutionary Liberation Front said they had privately been told (EPRLF) and the Peoples Library Indian officials.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 25, 1987
