The Famous defense correspondent Iqbal Athas says it was indeed The army who opened water in Mavil Aru by bombing the anicut

The reliable defense columnist of Colombo's Sunday Times says it was indeed the Sri Lanka Army who opened water of the Mavil Aru irrigation canal despite propaganda that the LTTE did it.

Iqbal Athas , the Sunday Times columnist who writes the newspaper's most popular and reliable column "The situation report" says the Army actually did it by very precisely bombing the Marvil Aru anicut.

He said in his Sunday Times column, "A high ranking military source said the security forces bombed the Mavil Aru anicut. It was so precisely done that water began flowing thereafter."