Karuna cadres suspected of abducting Ravindranath

Thursday, 21 December 2006 - 1:00 AM SL Time
The talk of Batticaloa town is that the Eastern University Vice Chancellor S. Ravinthranath was abducted by the Karuna faction in Colombo last Friday. Though the CID, probing the abduction, suspected the LTTE, it is believed the Vice Chancellor, who is from Jaffna, but served in Batticaloa for more than 30 years, was abducted by the Karuna faction in an apparent bid to rid the East of Jaffna academics. Before the abduction of the Vice Chancellor, eight academics who served in the Eastern University, were either abducted or threatened and all of them fled to Jaffna overnight. The LTTE earlier chased out all Muslims from the Peninsula and subsequently highly placed Batticaloa based Tamils were sent out. It is now firmly believed that Karuna cadres wanted to reciprocate in a similar manner by ridding Batticaloa of Jaffna Tamils. Full Story