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IDPs in vanishing act

SECURITY MEN IN RACKET
JEYARAJ'S KILLER TOO
By Gayan Kuamara Weerasinghe

A major human smuggling racket in which security officials in charge of refugee camps in Chettikulam were charging exhorbitant rates and releasing Tamil refugees from camps, was busted this week. Authorities fear as to whether LTTE leaders who were among civilians in the camps have also made good their escape after bribing security officials. Meanwhile the chief suspect in the murder of minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, Murthi was arrested while escaping from one of the camps.
It has been revealed that members of the defence unit, civilians and members of government institutions who come to work in these camps were behind this racket. Investigations have revealed that officials have charged sums of Rs.10,000 to Rs.500,000 to facilitate civilians escaping from IDP camps.
This racket was first exposed when an intelligence unit member was spotted at a checkpoint by the army and Police while transporting a civilian from a camp on his motor bike last week.
Under interrogation the officer admitted that he had taken rupees 75,000 from the civilian and had promised to take him out of the facility. Prior to this, two more people who had escaped from a welfare camp and lodged in the Kotahena area were arrested by the Kotahena Police.
They had escaped from the camp with the help of a person installing electrical fixtures, and some security officials. The escapees planned to go abroad and were arrested while they were staying at a lodge in Colombo.
A senior defence official in charge of the welfare camp area admitted that civilians were discovering ways and means to escape from the camps and that some members of the defence units were assisting them.

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