GOSL Names and Bans LTTE Fronts : Nediyavan
Posted on October 20th, 2014
Shenali D Waduge
GOSL has officially declared 16 organizations operating overseas as LTTE fronts and named over 400 individuals for their support of LTTE terror. The list gazetted in April 2014 declares the leaders of the 4 key factions. Father Emmanuel head of Global Tamil Forum, Rudrakumaran of US based TGTE, Vinyagam based in Brussels and Nediyavan operating from Norway. The last group is the most dangerous and is attempting to oust others by placing their own as heads of the other groups. The hold that the faction has over funds is noteworthy and requires the GOSL to use every diplomatic means to seek the arrest of Nediyavan and extradition to Sri Lanka to be charged for criminal and terror acts.
Perinbananayakam Sivaparan / Nediyavan
- Born: 28 August 1976, Vaddukoddai
- Schooling: Jaffna Hindu College, Kittu Political College
- Joined LTTE: 1994
- Based : Norway
- Offices in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India (Tamil Nadu)
- Role: International Coordinator of International Secretariat of the LTTE and managed LTTE fronts and LTTE branches worldwide, directed political and economic activity and limited procurement, demonstrations
- Nediyavan reported to Castro (Veerakulasingham Manivannan) at the International Coordinating Centre (now dead)
- Nediyavan faction operates through the offices of the Tamil Coordinating Committee (TCC)
- Maried: 30 Oct 2005 in Wanni to Sivagowri Shanthamohan a niece of LTTE leader Lala Ranjan of Koyathotan, Jaffna. Lala Ranjan was a founder member of LTTE and trained in India and died in 1984.
- Nediyavan Faction is also known as the Tamil Eelam Peoples Alliance (TEPA).
Nediyavan is accused of
- Carrying out demonstrations using LTTE flags
- Authorizing attacks against Sri Lankan diplomatic missions in Oslo
- Authorizing attacks against Sinhalese communities overseas
- Keeping tab on foreign nationals of Tamil ethnicity (In 2000, Rajasingham Jayadevan, UK citizen and trustee of a London kovil was detained in Vanni for 2 months demanding the kovil be given to LTTE)
- Coerced foreign nationals of Tamil ethnicity to contribute funds or face punishment.
- A member of LTTE delegation 30 Oct 2002, 28 July 2004, 10 March 2005 and 8 Nov 2005.
- Included in the 14 member LTTE delegation which visited EU countries from 29 Sept – 2 Nov 2004. During this period he headed recruitment to Tamil Youth Organization – where training was first given in Vanni and then members were sent back to Europe on foreign passports.
- Funded an air ticket of American Congressman Danny Davis to Sri Lanka 2005.
- LTTE`s propaganda website Tamilnet operated from Norway is said to be controlled by Nediyavan group while Sreetharan operates it from Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
- LTTE`s ideologue, the Late Anton Balasingam`s helper Jeyachandran well known as Jeya has taken control of the website
Arrests/Questioning/Acts of violence
- Involved in using Tamil gangs against ordinary Tamils and former LTTE supports across Europe. – clash between Nediyavan faction and rival reported at Kovil festival in Oslo 7 August 2010
- Dutch government questions Nediyavan after requesting Norway police to arrest Nediyavan in 2011. The Dutch launched an investigation on the LTTE codenamed Operation Koninck” and have found the money trail to Norway. LTTE members have revealed that money raised by tigers in Netherlands is sent to Nediyavan in Norway
- In March 2014, the Sri Lankan defense with the cooperation of Iranian and Malaysian authorities accomplished renditioning of a LTTE leader Subramaniam Kapilan alias Nanthagopan. He and Aravindhan (Irumporai) are 2 deputy leaders of the Nediyavan group. Nandagopan operates from South East Asia (though wife and 4 children live in Germany) while Irumporai operates from Europe (and holds a New Zealand passport and is based in German). Nanthagopan was registered as a ‘refugee’ under UN HCR Thailand.
Clashes within overseas LTTE
- Differences between TGTE led Nediyavan to form ‘democratic PTGT’ against Rudrakumaran (Provincial Trannational Government of Tamil Eelam) breaking TGTE vote base.
- Nediyavan had tried to kidnap an Australian citizen in Oslo, who was running a global TV station known as GTV. Nediyavan had met him in Oslo and asked him to hand in millions of dollars turnover made by GTV and in addition to property he owned in Australia.
Camouflaging the LTTE
- LTTE’s ‘Voice of Tigers’ was changed into ‘Voice of Tamil’ but with the same logo by LTTE
- Nediyavan established the International Council of Eelam Tamils (ICET) of which members were:
- National Council of Canadian Tamils – Canadian branch of Nediyavan faction/TEPA. NCCT President is Ranjan Sri Ranjan who has been lobbying in Geneva against Sri Lanka. He was also President of Canadian Tamil Congress.
- Swiss Council of Eelam Tamils
- Norwegian Council of Eelam Tamils
- Maison du Tamil Eelam, France
- Country Council of Eelam Tamils, Germany
- Italy Council of Eelam Tamils
- Dutch Tamil Forum
- Danish Tamils Forum
- Tamil Cultural Organisation – Belgium
- British Tamils Forum
- Tamil Youth Organisation – New Zealand
The connections
- Nediyavan Faction is represented in Canada by NCCT whose President Ranjan Sri Ranjan was also President of Canadian Tamil Congress
- M K Sivajilingam, TNA MP is a relative of Prabakaran
- Krishna Saravanamuttu of NCCT is also the spokesperson for ICET, International Council of Eelam Tamils established by Nediyavan
- Nediyavan Faction works closely with US Tamil Political Action Council
- Nediyavan faction also works with lankai Tamil Sangam (US based) and Tamils Against Genocide (TAG) to pursue criminal and civil litigation against Sri Lankan officials.
- GTV Nediyavan had met him in Oslo and asked him to hand in millions of dollars turnover made by GTV and in addition to property he owned in Australia.
- Nediyavan has started a new television channel on 3 July 2010 ‘Tamil 24th’ through Belgium satellite services. LTTE`s head of fund raising in the UK Rupert Soosaipillai known as Thanam has taken control of the Spectrum medium wave and have named it `Tamil 24` with help of the founder of the IBC radio Thasicious Master for the Nediyavan faction.
Unusual : Banned but Around
- Tamil Student Associations (TSAs) in over eight University campuses in Canada commemorated Heroes Day (LTTE terrorists who died in combat). James Clark from the Canadian Peace Alliance (of which Krishna Saravanamuttu is in the steering committee) said at the event at York last Monday: “Maaveerar Naal is an occasion not only to remember and pay tribute to the martyrs and heroes of Tamil Eelam, but also to reflect on the lessons of the struggle for peace and justice.” (Did James Clark actually mean this or was he reading off a prepared script?) http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2012/11/26/student-associations-mark-tamil-eelam-heroes-day-in-canada/
- NCCT and USTPAC organized a protest in front of the UN Consulate in New York in September 2010 against Sri Lanka.
It is important to note that the Global Tamil Forum which claims to be the umbrella of pro-LTTE Tamil Diaspora groups overseas is in reality steered by the Nediyavan Faction which also steers the British Tamil Forum. It is Nediyavan and not Father Emmanuel who is the brains behind foreign LTTE operations. However, it is not even Nediyavan who is the real brains. The pro-LTTE groups are steered by another lot of people chief among them is Jeyachandran Gopinath (Jeya Annai) who resides in Norway. He is the founder of LTTE’s official Norwegian paper strop, founder of TAMILNET, founder of NCET, Head of non-Tamil media for LTTE’s NEDIYAVAN wing, Head of LTTE’s election committee, former head of TCC in Oslo.
What is also noteworthy is that all is not honky dory within LTTE support-bases.
We do not know whether it is because of the LTTE kitty or because each of the leaders are vying to become the supreme leader now that Prabakaran is dead, but we do know that there are frictions and these frictions are excellent examples to show what a façade the Tamil ‘Eelam’ cause is.
We now need to wonder statistically how Tamils are divided.
How many Tamils align to Rudrakumaran and his TGTE?
How many Tamils align to Catholic clergy Emmanuel and his Global Tamil Forum?
How many Tamils are with Nediyavan and his TEPA?
Then we have the sub-groups who also play politics – British Tamil Forum is pro-Nediyavan.
What the GOSL must immediately do is to set up a mode of confidential and anonymous communication where harassed, tortured and aggrieved Tamils as a result of Nediyavan faction intimidation can log their details. These details can in turn be investigated and be sufficient enough for the respective EU governments to take action given that Nediyavan and group are now banned under UNSecurity Council Resolution 1373.
Shenali D Waduge
October 21st, 2014 at 1:39 pm
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT the BAN ON THE SALE OF LAND in Sri Lanka to Foreigners
ONCE the LAND is ALIENATED, citizenship becomes MEANINGLESS in a country where the citizens become RENTERS to be exploited, and foreigners become the OWNERS empowered to exploit and profit at will!
This is the situation TODAY in Hawaii, where Christian Missionaries stealthily married into the royal family, gradually took control of the land, and finally engineered a coup-de-etat against Queen Lilieukalani’s Govt of Hawaii to capture the reins of power, and converted the sovereign people of Hawaii into RENTERS living in backwoods HOVELS to be trotted out to do HULA DANCES for the Western tourists rolling in the lap of luxury in foreign owned hotels.
NO! This must NEVER BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN IN Sri Lanka! The native people of Sri Lanka MUST OWN ALL OF THE LAND FOREVER and FOREVER ENJOY ALL THE BENEFITS that flow from that land ownership.
Land ownership is the ULTIMATE DETERMINANT of a peoples Sovereignty.
Again I say: Without exclusive LAND ownership, citizenship is MEANINGLESS!
Let us LEARN from the fate of formerly SOVEREIGN LAND OWNERS of other nations, now become TENANTS of foreigners!
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Sri Lanka enacts ban on foreigners buying land
By Shihar Aneez
COLOMBO, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka passed legislation banning land purchases by foreigners, a move the government said would curb tax evasion but critics said could hinder its offshore investment ambitions.
The Land Bill adopted by parliament late on Monday prohibits foreign individuals, companies and locally incorporated firms with over 50 percent foreign ownership from buying land in the South Asian island nation.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is also finance minister, had flagged the ban plan in his November 2012 budget speech.
Deputy Finance Minister Sarath Amunugama said that since 2004 foreign individuals had been able to buy land by paying a 100 percent transfer tax, and locally incorporated firms with over 25 percent foreign ownership were also subject to the levy.
But Amunugama said some foreigners with a minority stake in company had sidestepped the tax system by buying land in the firm’s name and then transferring remaining shares of the company into their name to end up as sole owner of the land.
“This was used to evade tax (by buying land through companies and then transferring shares). These common malpractices associated with transfer of land to foreigners disguised under the veil of incorporation have been prevented through this act,” he told parliament.
The new act will allow foreigners to acquire land only on a lease basis of up to 99 years with an annual 15 percent tax on the total rental paid upfront.
“Though it is not unprecedented to restrict foreign ownership, Sri Lanka has just given a red light to foreign investors, specially at a time the country is trying to attract long term foreign investments,” said Anushka Wijesinghe, a research economist at the Institute of Policy Studies.
The bill, however, said all strategic development projects under its Board of Investment are exempt from the new rules.
Sri Lanka’s foreign direct investment rose 49 percent in the first nine months of 2014 from the same period a year earlier to $1.3 billion. Colombo has set a $2 billion FDI goal this year, after it failed to meet that target for two years in a row.
(Reporting by Shihar Aneez; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
October 21st, 2014 at 2:16 pm
Sri Lanka must AVOID EXCESSIVE DEPENDENCE Indian military hardware!
Let us keep in mind what would happen if the Modi Govt is driven out of power … as it inevitably will … sometime in the future, and Tamil Nadu grows as a threat to Sri Lanka.
Will the then Govt of India continue to support, upgrade and supply parts for this hardware, or will they support the Tamil Nadu Racists and DENY Sri Lanka Military Assistance … as India did when we were confronting the LTTE.
My bet is that India will place a Military Embargo on Sri Lanka. In that case, all this Indian Military assets … paid for by Sri Lanka with Sri Lankan Armed Forces personnel trained and become captive this hardware … will become so much USELESS JUNK to be thrown away.
In BUYING WEAPONS for national defence, we must keep uppermost in our minds who are the most likely enemies we will confront in the future, and rely mostly on those nations we will not come into conflict in the foreseeable future.
India, unfortunately, is the country posing the greatest threat to Sri Lanka’s national security, and we must act accordingly.
We must understand that Modi’s BJP Govt of India, though a welcome change, may not survive, or may change its posture towards Sri Lanka if their electoral strength erodes and dependence on Tamil Nadu increases as in the case of previous Congress union governments of India.
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India to supply two naval offshore patrol vessels to Sri Lanka – report
ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Oct 21, New Delhi: India is planning to supply two naval offshore patrol vessels and other military equipment to Sri Lanka, according to an Indian media report.
India has earlier provided 24 L-70 guns, 24 battle-field surveillance radars, 11 USFM radars, four Indra-II radars and 10 mine-protected vehicles, among other things, to the Sri Lankan forces, the Times of India reported Monday describing India’s military assistance to Sri Lanka.
In addition around 800 to 900 Sri Lankan military personnel are trained in Indian military establishments every year.
India reportedly is taking measures to step up defence cooperation with the neighboring countries in Indian Ocean including Sri Lanka to counter China’s growing strategic influence in the region.
In addition to providing hardware, India has agreed to provide assistance to Sri Lanka and Maldives in capacity-building of their armed forces through training to steadily boost overall military ties with the neighbors.
Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa on Monday, October 20 met with India’s Defense Minister Arun Jaitley in New Delhi and discussed a number of issues including stepping-up military ties.