LTTE Headquarters,
                                                Tamil Eelam.
                                                29. June 1997

PRESS RELEASE 
NEWS FROM TAMIL EELAM
                                           
MUNASINGHE THE DECEIVER RESURRECTED AS ARMY SPOKESMAN
	Sri Lanka has re-appointed Sarath Munasinghe as army spokesman.
	Munasinghe has become noted for his wildly exaggerated military
	claims aimed at misleading the international community and the
	Sinhala population in the south about the viability and true
	nature of the Sri Lankan war on Tamils. His over-confident
	falsehoods have led to numerous embarrassments and personal
	ridicule but this has not prevented the government from relying
	in their current desperation upon on his gross deceptions.
	
ARRESTED JAFFNA TAMILS TAKEN TO COLOMBO
	52 Tamil boys and girls arrested in Jaffna during Sri Lankan
	military round-up and search operations have been taken to
	Colombo. All were arrested in April this year and had been
	already transferred twice before - to Kankesanthurai and
	Anuradhapura remand jails. Of the 52 persons, 12 are very young
	girls.  The numbers of arrested Tamil people is rising with every
	successive army round-up.
	
SRI LANKAN FORCES TAKE OVER MORE TAMIL BUILDINGS
	Sinhala armed forces have taken over two American Christian
	mission schools, private houses and Hindu temples to make way for
	a new military camp in Valigamam west (Navali). The areas of
	Navali north, east and south also fall under this camp's command.
	The all-important road to Vaddukoddai and Karainagar passes
	through Navali and travel has been badly affected.
	
FALSE CHARGES AGAINST A TAMIL OFFICIAL
	False charges have been brought against a Tamil administrative
	official (Grama Sevaka) in Atchuveli (Jaffna) to justify his
	arrest. Sri Lankan authorities have accused him of providing
	funds to the LTTE and recruiting cadres in the area.
	
AMBULANCE HI-JACKED BY ARMY
	An ambulance returning from Vavuniya hospital carrying Tamil
	patients was confiscated by Sri Lankan armed forces for their own
	use and the patients (needing special treatment) were left
	stranded. The ambulance was transferring patients to Mallavi from
	Vavuniya. The patients are now back in Vavuniya.



Political Committee,
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

(English translation of the LTTE statement released by
LTTE International Secretariat, 211 Katherine Road,
London E6 1BU, United Kingdom.  Tel:0181- 503 4294)