The Colombo Chief Magistrate today remanded the LTTE Political Division Leader Subramaniam Sivagami alias Thamalini till August 29 as the Attorney General had not sent his instructions on the report sent by the CID on the suspect to the Attorney General.

The Magistrate Rashmi Singapulli made this order on considering the request made by the Criminal Investigations Department. They submitted that the Division had sent the extracts of the investigation report to the Attorney General and still no action had been taken by the Attorney General over the case. Therefore they pleaded to remand her further.

Thamalini who had functioned as the Leader of the LTTE Political Division was arrested by the CID after the war when she came to the government ruling areas.

The CID investigations had revealed that the suspected after passing her G. C. E. Advanced Levels had joined the LTTE on May 27, 1991. Upon receiving five months military training, she had been assigned to the LTTE Political Wing with duties to educate the Tamil Public and to organise recruits. She had conducted orientation sessions for the LTTE in Switzerland and Norway.

On her return from to the island she had even run an office in Kilinochchi. Having served in Kilinochchi, Kilali, and in Walikamam, she had participated in the LTTE attack on Pooneryn on November 11t, 1993. Thereafter, she had been engaged in publishing the LTTE News Paper for Women “Suvander Paraveihal” from 1991 to 2000. During her involvement, with the LTTE she had attended Political Orientation Programmes conducted by LTTE Theoretician Anton Balasingham. After the death of the Women’s Division leader in a clash in Muhamalai, Kamalini was made the Leader of that division. (T. Farook Thajudeen)