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| Eight suspected Tamil Tiger rebels arrested |
| 2007-01-25 |
| Chennai: Eight suspected Tamil Tiger rebels were arrested in southern India. More than two metric tons of ball bearings that can be used for making mines, were seized, a police official said yesterday. The eight had bought the bearings, manufactured in Mumbai, and told the police that they planned to take them to Sri Lanka, according to D. Mukherjee, director-general of Tamil Nadu state police. "We are investigating the links," Mukherjee said. Five were arrested on Tuesday night in Chennai. The remaining three were arrested in Tuticorin, a port town 450 km south of Chennai. Mines are the preferred weapons of the rebel group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. They have been fighting since 1983 for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's 3.1 million minority Tamils, citing decades of discrimination by the Sinhalese-dominated state. Tamil Nadu is home to nearly 56 million Tamils, many with close family ties to ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka. |
| Posted by:Fred |