A 61 year old woman was arrested by officers from the Terrorism Investigative Division (TID) in Karavetti, reports Global Tamil News.
According to the news site, the woman, Ganapathipillai Yogarani, was arrested by officers shortly after the government proscribed of 15 Tamil diaspora organisations, as all seven of her children were living abroad.
Individuals with many relatives abroad, as diaspora, are being specifically targeted by the Sri Lankan military's intensified search operations, following its allegations of a rearming of the LTTE via a man named by the military as 'Gopi'.
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