Norwegian People Aid (NPA) vehicles “stolen”




(August 14, Oslo, Sri Lanka Guardian) “During an internal routine inspection of the suspended Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) Mine Action Programme equipment and resources on Thursday 24th July, 2008, it was discovered that 8 vehicles had been forcibly removed from the Mine Action compound in Kilinochchi during the preceding days.”

The above are the official (NPA) explanation of the missing vehicles released in a press release dated 29th July 2008.

In an interview with NRK (Norway’s largest TV channel) Mr. Petter Eide is fuming over the Sri Lankan media and GOSL theory that the vehicles has been given to the LTTE.
It puzzles us the NPA has so bad security and it takes them days to find out a substantial number of vehicles is missing. Since their work in Sri Lanka is funded with Norwegian tax payer’s money they should take

More care of NPA assets NAT cannot prove if the vehicles is stolen or handed over to the LTTE, but it will not surprise us if the vehicles are recovered with the original keys. The NPA Sri Lankan projects are funded by Erik Solheim’s NORAD and we assume replacement vehicles will be given to the NPA from the generous LTTE friend Erik Solheim.
- Sri Lanka Guardian