News: Strategy Page

June 17, 2010: Thirteen months after the Tamil LTTE rebel army was defeated, Sri Lankan police still seek rebel activists living among the Tamil population. So far this year, over a hundred known LTTE activists have been found and arrested in Sri Lanka. Many of those arrested were found tending to the many caches of weapons and ammunition still being discovered. Military equipment and documents are also found, indicating that the LTTE hid all this gear with the intention of recovering it later and resuming the fight. The extent of these hidden supply dumps indicates that the LTTE had a lot more cash than the government believed. The government fears a revived rebellion so much that the defense budget has stayed at its wartime peak of $1.8 billion a year. The LTTE is apparently determined to make a comeback, but the government is making a big deal out of preventing that from happening.