A storm surge in Sri Lanka’s northeast has exposed buried artillery guns of the Tamil terrorist group the Tigers, who leadership was killed by the military, eliminating the the movement.
Troops stumbled on four 152mm artillery barrels and one 130 mm piece believed to have been used by the terrorists during their last stand in the district of Mullaittivu, army spokesman Ruwan Wanigasooriya said, AFP reports.
“They had buried it along the coast and the cache was exposed due to a storm surge in the area,'' Wanigasooriya said. “We knew that the [Tamil] terrorists used heavy weapons, but this is physical evidence of their big artillery guns.’’
Government forces crushed the Tamil terrorists who were cornered in a small stretch of lagoon where the group’s top leadership was wiped out in May 2009.
The spectacular military success ended nearly four decades of fighting by the Tail terrorists.
“Tigers fired these artillery pieces from areas where the civilians were sheltering in the final stages of the war,’’ Wanigasooriya said.
Rights groups blamed the Tigers for using civilians as a human shield while government forces were accused of shelling civilian areas declared a no-fire zone during the final battles.
In May, security forces said they unearthed 6,250 kilos of C-4 type plastic explosives buried in a jungle area in Mullaittivu.
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