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	Col Karuna told that more than policemen were killed 20 years ago

Karuna Amman a former Tamil Tiger militant in Sri Lanka, now a government minister, has admitted that his comrades killed more than policemen 20 years ago in the part of the country he then controlled as a Tiger leader.

Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, commonly known as Colonel Karuna Amman said, he was in a different part of Sri Lanka at the time.

Testifying before a government-appointed commission looking at the Sri Lankan war, blamed Tiger’s leader and intelligence chief for killings.

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Colonel Karuna’s defection from the Tamil Tigers or LTTE six years ago is seen as having led to their all-out military defeat in

Now a vice-president of Sri Lanka’s governing party, he’s been dogged by allegations that he has abused human rights.

He has now told the war commission that more than policemen were indeed killed in eastern Sri Lanka when he headed the LTTE there, something some earlier wit