Prabhakaran’s prized documents found

A special Police team yesterday traced a hideout used by LTTEleader Velupillai Prabhakaran during the final stages of war at Vellamulliwaikkaland and recovered several files containing classified information, 56 CDs and a large quantity of sophisticated weapons.
Police ascertained information about the hideout by questioning six of Prabhakaran’s closest aides now in custody.
A police team headed by SSP Quintus Raymond conducted the search operation on the instructions of Northern Province DIG Nimal Lewke.
Information contained in files pertained to Prabhakaran, his family members and his close associates and they would help the police and the security forces with the on-going investigations, investigators said.Police said all these documents and weapons had been buried underground.
The police also recovered 17 suicide jackets, 7,000 Jhonny mines, 300 kilos of C-4 explosives, 8 claymore mines and a host of weapons and ammunition.
There was evidence that the LTTEhad run an arms manufacturing factory in the vicinity of Prabhakaran’s hideout but that facility had been destroyed by the fleeing Tigers to prevent it from falling to the security forces, the police said. (News- The Island)