COLOMBO, Sept. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Monday blamed the government for ignoring the setting up of military camps by the Tamil Tiger rebels in the north and east which pose threats to national security.

　　In a letter to her arch political rival Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Kumaratunga said that the 13 camps built by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels since ceasefire wasimplemented in February 2002 were encircling the Trincomalee harbor in the east, threatening its port and the government naval base.

　　"I wish to state that you have permitted a serious situation toarise in the country by deliberately misrepresenting facts regarding the dangerous situation in Trincomalee and elsewhere," Kumaratunga said.

　　Kumaratunga urged Wickremesinghe to "refrain from concealing and distorting the truth" on Trincomalee.

　　The government has confirmed there were 13 rebel camps in the northeast but said all but one were either in rebel-controlled areas or existed before the 19-month ceasefire.

　　Government spokesman G. L. Peiris has said that the Defense Ministry has worked out contingency plans to deal with any eventuality in the north and east.

　　Kumaratunga has accused the government of giving too much to the Tigers in a bid to end the two decades of ethnic war.

　　The Norwegian-brokered peace talks have been stalled since the rebels pulled out in April but the government has said that the talks could resume by the end of this month when the LTTE rebels submit their counter proposals in response to government proposalshanded over to them in July. Enditem