Is Pottu suffering heart attack?

Image: Pottu Amman at funeral of Lt. Col. Thava.

by Our Special Correspondent

(February 23, Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka Guardian) Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, totally rejected on false report on their intelligence head Shanmugalinam Shivashankar alias Pottu Amman.

"LTTE Intelligence Wing chief Pottu Amman was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Kilinochchi hospital last 13th following a heart attack, says sources from Kilinochchi," some media in Colombo has reported without proper evidence.

“That was not based on true also it was a joke,” senior member of the LTTE said. “I don’t know why they are doing journalism like a baby”, he added.

Meanwhile Pottu Amman was attained with funeral of Lt. Col. Thava who was official photographer of the LTTE’s Leader Prabhakaran on last 18th evening in some where in Wanni.

Senior member of the LTTE Lieutenant Colonel Thava killed at the battlefront on Sunday (17th) afternoon.

However, “his diabetic condition had also increased and he was treated in the Intensive Care Unit for three days,” the report said.

Shanmugaligam Sivashanker, better known as Pottu Amman, head of the LTTE Intelligence Unit (TOSI) and the Black Tigers (Karunku Puligal), is a secretive man, of whom nothing much is known about. Wanted by the Interpol for terrorism, he has been the mystery man of the LTTE.

According to very reliable sources, Pottu Amman, born in the early 40s had joined the LTTE in the early 80s after a long stint abroad. His wife is from Sandiweli, near the Eastern University and they have two children, a girl and a boy.

He is said to have been in charge of the LTTE camps in Tamil Nadu costal area during the early days of the LTTE.

In 1985 he was kidnapped by PLOTE cadres in Mahalingapuram, Chennai; and was released in exchange for Kannan, abducted by the LTTE.

Source privy to LTTE inside information told the Media that, "Pottu Amman's life was more of a secret than Prabhakan's. He headed all the operations outside the North and East parts and orchestrated many suicide attacks against the country's political leaders and anti LTTE Tamil political party members."

Sources learns that Pottu Amman is currently living in the Iranamadu area, in the Mullathivu district, near the air strip constructed by the LTTE. He is said to use the A 34 and A 35 road, on the Mankulam – Mulativu road, Pudukuduirippu or Paranthan – Mulative road.