LTTE Abducted my Husband- IP Jeyaratnam's wife

Missing Police Inspector T. Jeyaratnam's wife, Sarala Jeyaratnam says that she has no doubts that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had abducted her husband. . She told The Island Newspaper " I have no doubts about it. I am sure the LTTE did it. He was in LTTEÕs target list for nearly ten years for investigating their activites. Even my husbands older brother policeman T. Rajaratnam also was abducted and killed by the LTTE in Chavakachcheri ten years ago" Inspector Jeyaratnam attached to the Intelligence wing of the Mount-Lavinia police went missing on Wednesday, hours after returning from a dinner at the Mount-Lavinia hotel. His host, Mano a former PLOT member turned LTTE is suspected to be behind the abduction of the policeman.

Sarala Jeyaratnam says LTTE members and people connected to the LTTE had been threatening her husband for the past one and a half years, asking them to leave the police and leave the country. However, the Jeyaratnams had told them , they had no where to go and informed the police regarding the continuous threats they received. They had written to the then IGP Anandarajah and other IGPS, informed minister Douglas Devananda to help them leave the country through his connections with the President. Mrs Jeyaratnam says that no one helped them.

Jeyaratnam appealed to the government to speak to the LTTE and to Norwegian peace envoy Erik Solheim and get her husband released. She says " It is peace time and the government can help to find my husband. No government officials have spoken to us so far. They have done nothing so far. My little children (age 5 and 7) doesnÕt know their father is missing. He was a honest police officer who served the country for more than fifteen years" Missing IPs wife sas said when she made a complaint to the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) the officials had told her that they will speak to the LTTE on the matter, but it was not possible for them to ask for Jeyaratnam's release because it was not within their mandate.

Mrs Jeyaratnam told The Island , though her husband had stopped investigations on the activities of the LTTE, the Tigers had continued to follow him and her husband knew the LTTE had followed him for nearly seven years. She says the suspect Mano who invited them for dinner at the Mount-Lavinia hotel also had gone missing and her efforts to call him on his mobile failed. Mano had promised to help her husband to get a job in London. She described the van they went to meet Mano as a white Toyota Dolphin with a blue border fitted with a hood rack.

Khalid