INDIAN RAW goes on recce mission
A day after the Sri Lankan army took over Kilinochchi, pushing the LTTE fighters to the northern jungles of Mullaittivu, India sent a select team of the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) on a secret aerial surveillance mission across the Palk Straits. Sources told TOI that the aircraft belonging to the Air Research Centre (ARC), a top secret wing of RAW, took off from Chennai airport around 3am on Saturday. Sources refused to confirm if the ARC exercise was on the request of the Sri Lankan government.
“The ARC aircraft, which took off from Chennai with high-tech espionage equipment, flew quite close to the Sri Lankan coast and got back to another airport without returning to Chennai,” a source said. ARC, which has a fleet ofBoeings and Embraers fitted with some of the best cameras for high-altitude photography, can fly well above 40,000 feet.
The vision of the cameras, made on the lines of satellite cameras, can penetrate clouds and get photographs of spatial resolution of less than one metre, which means a small vehicle or even a person on the ground could be photographed from those heights. For civilian flights, there are internationally accepted preset codes. The ARC aircraft uses codes and call signs other than these and keeps changing them before every exercise.
The exercises are so secretive that ARC uses its own pilots and not even those from the Indian Air Force. While it uses civilian and IAF airports across the country, there is no fixed air base for ARC, which remains more of a dynamic arrangement than an organisation. “There was little notice for Saturday’s mission. The flight came from some other airfield and took off in the early hours,” an airport source said.
INDIAN RAW goes on recce mission in Eelam; Pirampadi lane, Kokuvil
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Post #1Damith Kethaka (Australia) wroteon October 19, 2008 at 8:40pm
DATE 22-10-1987
VENUE : JAFFNA TEACHING HOSPITAL
LTTE cadres retreating Through Clock tower road of central Jaffna, run through the Jaffna teaching Hospital after ambushing an Indian convoy.
5 Minitues later the front edges of the pursuing Indian Battalions ( engaged in Operation code : pawan) enters the teaching hospital and fire indiscriminatively at patients, government health staff and security personal
Casualities : 70 Tamil Civillians and 1 Sinhalese ( including government Hospital staff in Uniform)
Doctors killed : Dr. A. Sivapathasuntheram ( Specialist), Dr.M.K. Ganesharatnam, Dr.Parimelalahar
Other Hospital staff : Nurses – Mrs. Wadiwelu,Mrs. Sivapakiam, Mrs.Shanmugalingam, and Mrs. Ramanathan
Matrons – Mrs. Leelawathie Sumanatissa ( Sinhalese)
on the way to the jaffna hospital the IPKF massacred the following civillian families who were simply residing close to the hospital
Mr. R. Duraiswamy – retired Secretary to the Ministry of local governments
Mr. M.Duraiswamy – Manager Bank of Ceylon Jaffna
Mr. S. Sivasubramaniam – retired director general of Irrigations department and his wife ( english teacher ) and their only son who was a second year student of medical faculty University of Jaffna
The Entire Family of the sister of The then chief justice S.Sharvanandan including their boy child
DATE 2-10-1989
VENUE : VALVETTITURAI JAFFNA PENINSULA
at 11:00 HRS an indian army patrol is attacked by the LTTE. Six Soldiers die on the spot
four and half hours later, battalions of IPKF start moving to VVT areas and start a rampage.
Casualities : 52 ( as identified by local authorities) Civillians, 4 Sri Lankan Police Officers
damage : 74 Vehicles destroyed, 100 homes burned to ground, an uncounted number of other places ” INCLUDING HINDU KOVILS” attacked and cheif incumbents of kovils murdered.
Humanitarian crisis : 5000 people flee abandoning their villages as the enraged indian army draws closer to their homes.They plead for assistance from the Government forces of Sri Lanka.However The Indo- Sri Lanka accord kept them limited to their barracks as Indian military chiefs OPENLY THREATNED TO SHOOT ANY SRI LANKAN SOLDIER FOUND OUT SIDE HIS BARRACK!!
1 day later Surrounding villages were attacked by the IPKF. those who perished were countless in numbers. as David Housego of London Times report it the Scene of the incident was ” terrifying”!!!
RAPE AND GENOCIDE-
Late Lalith Athulathmudali, the then minister of defense sri lanka, alleged that a 79 year old woman is amongst hundreds of girls who were raped in surrounding forests of VVT and Kokavil. One incident is recalled where IPKF lead girls between ages 14-35 with their arms tied behind their backs, by masses to their bases to be raped by their soldiers.Most of them NEVER RETURNED HOME!!!
PIRAMPADI AND KOKKUVIL MASS GRAVES –
Over 100 civillians massacred by Indian Army were buried and later discovered from Mass graves in Pirampadi and kokkuvil areas.
IS INDIA GENUINELY WORRIED ABOUT TAMIL CIVILLIANS IN SRI LANKA?? WHAT RIGHTS DO THEY HAVE TO BE “CONCERNED” ABOUT A HYPOTHETICAL HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN SRI LANKA ???
MY TAMIL FRIENDS I LEAVE THIS QUESTION WITH YOU TO ANSWER
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My dear friend i would like to bring to your notice that the topic here is about “RAW going on a Recce” and not “WHAT DID IPKF DO IN Sri Lanka in 1989″!!!