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Renegade S Lanka leader goes home
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by Sanjay Jha | July 4, 2008 at 02:25 am
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Former Tamil rebel leader Karuna has strong control in Some part of Sri Lanka but he defected and joined Sri Lankan forces.
Former Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger renegade Col Karuna has arrived in Colombo after completing a prison sentence in the UK, British embassy officials say.
Embassy spokesman Dominic Williams told the BBC that Col Karuna had been removed from a UK detention centre and deported to Sri Lanka on 2 July.
The embassy refused to give any more details about his arrival.
A spokesman for his Tamil Peoples' Liberation Tigers party said that the colonel was "delighted" to be home.
But in an interview with the BBC, he said that the colonel would not be offered the position of chief minister of Eastern Province, which was won by an alliance led by the government - containing the Tamil Peoples' Liberation Tigers - in elections in May.
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Col Karuna was the commander of rebel territory in eastern Sri Lanka and effectively number two in the Tiger military organisation.
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at 06:12 on July 18th, 2008
Sanjay Jha, I like this story. It's good stuff. Hmmm! I heard somewhere that he was to be offered that post too. Im a bit confused whether he is someone who can be trusted. But it is such a mess upin Jaffna! Although the Tigers no longer control the city as far as I know.
Gerry