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Viewing cable 07COLOMBO328, ATTACK ON AMBASSADOR'S CONVOY IN BATTICALOA

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07COLOMBO328 2007-02-27 09:49 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Colombo
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 COLOMBO 000328 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/INS AND DS/ICI/ITA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ASEC PTER PREL PGOV MOPS
SUBJECT: ATTACK ON AMBASSADOR'S CONVOY IN BATTICALOA 
 
COLOMBO 00000328  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
C O R R E C T E D   C O P Y  -- PARA 1 TEXT (DATE) 
 
1.  On February 27, 2007 Ambassador Blake and the German, 
Italian, Japanese and French Ambassadors accompanied Minister 
of Disaster Management and Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe 
and representatives of the United Nations and international 
non-governmental organizations on a day trip to observe 
developments in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka.  They 
departed Colombo for Batticaloa at approximately 0745 in a 
Sri Lankan Military MI 17 VIP helicopter. 
 
2.  At approximately 0845, as the helicopter approached the 
Batticaloa Air Force base, it was diverted to a nearby 
alternate landing site when the Air Force base came under 
mortar fire from the LTTE.   After a normal landing, the 
party deplaned and moved toward waiting vehicles.  Before the 
party could enter the vehicles, the landing site received 
several rounds of mortar fire, one of which impacted at the 
rear of the motorcade and another approximately twenty yards 
from Ambassador Blake.  The party was placed in an armored 
personnel carrier and moved to the Batticaloa Police station. 
 
3.  During the attack, Ambassador Blake was hit in the 
shoulder by a flying object and received a superficial wound 
which produced a small quantity of blood.  Several other 
members of the party received similar injuries.  The Italian 
Ambassador had an object embedded in his neck and was taken 
to the Batticaloa Hospital for treatment; the German 
Ambassador, who was uninjured, accompanied him. 
Samarasinghe's spokesman confirmed that the Minister had not 
been injured, but said that a number of security force 
personnel were admitted to Batticaloa hospital with serious 
injuries. 
 
4.  DCM contacted Norwegian Ambassador Hans Brattskar and 
asked that he convey to the LTTE that diplomats had come 
under fire and that LTTE in the area must cease shelling. 
Ambassador Brattskar talked by phone with LTTE Peace 
Secretariat head Puledevan and later with LTTE Commander for 
 
SIPDIS 
Batticaloa Jihan.  They stated that the LTTE was unaware that 
foreign diplomats were in the area and that shelling would be 
halted. 
 
5.  LTTE military spokesman Irasiah Ilanthirayan issued a 
statement via "Tamilnet" blaming the government for failing 
to notify the LTTE of the diplomats' presence: "We are 
shocked by the grave negligence of the security arrangements 
for the diplomats by the Sri Lankan government that has 
transported the delegation into the artillery launchpads amid 
the prevailing atmosphere of provocative artillery attacks." 
 
6.  Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama issued a statement 
condemning the attack on diplomats: " The LTTE has once again 
demonstrated its terrorist nature by launching an attack on 
the Diplomatic Corps on their visit to Batticaloa, on the 
east coast of Sri Lanka, on a humanitarian mission... These 
areas have now been substantially cleared of the LTTE and the 
resettlement of IDPs is taking place." 
 
7.  The Ambassador and the rest of the party received 
scheduled briefings from military officials and civil society 
representatives in Batticaloa and we expect to depart at 
15:00 for Colombo. 
 
8.  Embassy briefed the Operations Center on the incident at 
0930 and provided updates during the day. 
 
9.  Comment: It is possible, or even likely, that the LTTE 
identified the aircraft as a Sri Lankan military helicopter 
and attacked without knowing that diplomats and international 
NGO representatives were on board since this model of 
helicopter is the primary transport helicopter in the Sri 
Lankan inventory. 
 
COLOMBO 00000328  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
C O R R E C T E D   C O P Y  -- PARA 1 TEXT (DATE) 
 
BLAKE