Shenali D Waduge

The citizens of Sri Lanka welcome the statements by President-elect Donald Trump on the need to wipe out terrorists and not those fighting the terrorists. The assurance that President Trump would ban foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections is noteworthy as well as the decision to remove criminal illegal immigrants posing as bogus asylum seekers and the intense vetting of immigrants to the US to ensure no potential terrorists enter. We would like to bring to the attention of the Trump administration that the LTTE – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam came into being far before the current jihadist terror groups, LTTE had its own navy, police, airforce and ran a defacto area by virtue of the illegal arms and support given by parties that supported terrorism from overseas. LTTE mastered and introduced the art of suicide terrorism. LTTE has even taken a contract killing on foreign soil – assassinating the former Indian Prime Minister using a female suicide bomber who came to garland late Rajiv Gandhi. The FBI said in 2008 that LTTE was among the most dangerous and deadly extremists in the world,” FBI declared LTTE far more dangerous than the Al Qaeda. The Sri Lankan Government defeated the ground force of the LTTE in May 2009 but the LTTE fronts who had been providing material support and raised funding through charities that they were operating remain active in the US, Canada, UK, EU, Australia, South Africa, parts of Asia. Some of these groups have been banned incorporating UNSC Resolution 1373 and none of them have yet been investigated thoroughly by foreign governments. Given President Trumps clarity on terrorists, we would like to know the stand that the new administration will take regarding these LTTE fronts who are operating from overseas given that large numbers of LTTE combatants fled before and during the conflict to foreign countries assisted by NGOs and these entities could well pose a danger within these countries as well. All terrorists are not Islamic terrorists – US should seriously investigate the LTTE fronts too. Hillary Clinton called the LTTE ‘freedom fighters’.

Our appeal to President Donald Trump

·         Review US stand on Sri Lanka. As examples will show, while the FBI has been arresting LTTE operatives in the US and has been working closely with international law enforcement operatives, the foreign domiciled LTTE terrorist lobby has been using ‘Tamil’ votes and money to influence foreign MPs and bureaucrats into taking a pro-LTTE stand against the Sri Lankan Government. This has not only affected diplomatic relations but has unnecessarily caused tensions. ‘Tamils of Hillary Clinton’ lobby and the many US congressman who had been tapped as well as the attempts to even bribe US officials to remove LTTE as a foreign terrorist organization goes to show the lengths these lobbies will go to while living in the US. It is time some action was taken against them given that President Trumps election pledge was to ban foreign parties lobbying US politicians. Such actions by LTTE diaspora groups are a threat to democracy in the US.

·         Review media, human rights reports, UN reports & UNHRC resolutions against Sri Lanka. From the manner the mainstream media has been exposed for their bias and lies during the US Presidential election, as well as the Soros-funded anti-Trump protests taking place throughout the US, will reveal the double standards and hypocrisies that prevail. Sri Lanka has been a victim of such media bias with reports, documentaries funded by the same sources that are protesting against Mr.Trump. The LTTE lobbies are even dictating how UNHRC resolutions are to  be drafted and they are the one’s supplying the ‘witnesses’ whom the UNHRC are using to implicate soldiers who defeated the terrorists as war criminals. LTTE cadres had been arrested with UNHCR passes and the former UNHRC head immediately after leaving office was a chief guest at an event organized by the LTTE fronts in Canada. These are all conflicts of interests. These influences are such that demands are being made to change Sri Lanka’s constitution, penal codes, state administration, national flag, national anthem, the country’s history – all of which are unfair demands made through LTTE separatist lobbies trying to carve a separate area out of an island nation that is only 65,610 km² as compared to US 9.834 million km²

·         We welcome President Trumps decision to severely vet all immigrants as the LTTE runs a human smuggling/boat people smuggling network and are accused of accepting money to send ‘economic migrants’ as asylum seekers. This is a racket taking place in Canada, UK, EU and Australia and should be investigated. Lot of money is involved and there are centres in the UK which charges to be physically abused so a medical officer can confirm the wounds were recent and claim they were committed by the Sri Lanka Army. These allegations should be investigated and action taken.

·         The bias of the UN & illegalities of UNHRC Resolutions was seen in the manner UNSG and UNHRC head were using their international status to influence the US election against Mr. Trump. UNHRC head is on record to say that Mr. Trump was ‘dangerous’ to the world http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2016/11/15/unsg-unhrc-head-must-apologize-to-president-donald-trump/ these are the personalities who have been meeting with LTTE lobbies and allowing terrorist fronts to influence global systems. LTTE support for Mrs. Clinton led to the US resolutions against Sri Lanka in the UNHRC. LTTE terrorist fronts who are banned cannot be allowed to influence war crimes tribunals against a national army that was only defending the country and its citizens. All the allegations of war crimes against the Sri Lankan Army are coming from LTTE fronts, LTTE supporters (local and international), foreign MPs linked to LTTE, UN officials linked to LTTE, media, human rights organizations linked to LTTE. Mr. Trump would never allow US army to be held for war crimes by Al Qaeda or ISIS terrorists or their supporters! The peace loving people of Sri Lanka appeals to the new US administration to review these resolutions on the merit of evidence and the legal arguments by international terrorist experts and not parties linked to LTTE lobbies.  

·         Mr. Trump’s interview on Syria clearly conveyed to the public that US should be helping nations fighting terrorists not supplying arms to unknown terror groups trying to dislodge leaders of a country. We appreciate this stand. Similarly, we would like to inform that LTTE is far more ruthless than the jihadist terrorists the West is fearful of. No jihadist group had its own naval, airforce and groundforce like the LTTE did. No jihadist group had its own police, its own courts, its own currency, its own schools, its own administrative service. No jihadist group has carried out over 300 suicide attacks like the LTTE. No jihadist group has killed 2 world leaders, one a foreigner and on foreign soil. This shows that LTTE is not to be underestimated given large numbers of LTTE cadres are now overseas as asylum seekers and they can be contracted to do any damage overseas. US must seek assistance of Canada, UK, EU, Australia and South Africa and other Asian nations to intensively tabulate all refugees/asylum seekers that have arrived in their countries and their connections to the LTTE for the safety of foreign citizens as well as the world at large.

This compilation is just a small portion of what LTTE and its supporters both in Sri Lanka and overseas have been doing for 30 years. Terrorism has become a business where those overseas are living in luxury raising funds and ammunition for a group to create mayhem elsewhere while they use the conflict to generate illegal and legal incomes as well as influence and exert power at political levels. This criminal syndicate must be stopped. We welcome President Trump’s new foreign policy approach – departing from an interventionist policy to one of working for mutual goodwill. We hope that action will be initiated against all parties that are out to upset those objectives.

Tamil armed militant groups were created in India during the 1970s to destabalize Sri Lanka as well as pass over self-determination bid launched in India’s state of Tamil Nadu to Sri Lanka where Tamil immigrants from India now settled in Sri Lanka are also demanding a separate state but with no historical proof to showcase that they evolved in Sri Lanka to claim any homeland rights.

Command structure of the LTTE revealed in a 1987 Wikileaks – https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/87COLOMBO1041_a.html

Council of Foreign Relations on LTTE – Indian Intelligence RAW helped train and arm LTTE in the 1970s – http://www.cfr.org/india/raw-indias-external-intelligence-agency/p17707

http://www.cfr.org/separatist-terrorism/liberation-tigers-tamil-eelam-aka-tamil-tigers-sri-lanka-separatists/p9242

CFR also confirms that the use of LTTE suicide vests had been copied by Al Qaeda, Lebanese militia Hezbollah, Palestinian groups such as Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

Stanford University: Mapping Militant Organizations – http://web.stanford.edu/group/mappingmilitants/cgi-bin/groups/view/225

The LTTE terrorists carried out over 300 suicide attacks in over 30 years of brutal terrorism. During this time there have been ceasefires, peace negotiations, third party foreign mediated negotiations all of which came to nought as these were used as opportunities for the terrorists to regroup and re-arm. Neither the UN nor human rights groups came to save the people of Sri Lanka from LTTE terror. After the GOSL and national army eliminated the LTTE ground troops the UN and human rights groups are coming out with human rights abuse questions when they ignored all of the crimes committed by the LTTE terrorists.

Thousands of unarmed civilians were targeted through suicide bombs, bombs placed in public places, inside banks, buses, trains, along roads and thousands have died and scores of people remain with lifelong injuries. The UN did not intervene to stop LTTE arms supply, LTTE overseas fund raising to purchase arms and equipment or put a stop to LTTE fronts who were lobbying among foreign politicians. LTTE diaspora was influencing both foreign politicians, bureaucrats and even UN officials using the money they were making through an international criminal network that comprised extortion, human smuggling, boat people smuggling, prostitution, narcotics, credit card scams in foreign countries, abusing and misusing the tax free charity status by registering themselves as charities.

Modus Operandi of Tamil Diaspora & LTTE Organizations http://www.news.lk/fetures/item/1084-modus-operandi-tamil-diaspora-and-ltte-organisations (very important – gives an excellent overview and connects the dots)

http://www.defence.lk/warcrimes/LTTE_international_network.html

LTTE fronts

Investigate Hillary Clinton-LTTE front links

Mrs. Clinton is on record for claiming the US created Al Qaeda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqn0bm4E9yw

Wikileaks has accused Hillary Clinton and President Obama of creating ISIS

http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf

The US proscribed LTTE as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997 and that status has not changed even after the demise of the ground force of the LTTE in May 2009.

LTTE invented the suicide belt, pioneered use of women suicide attacks and is the only terrorist organization to assassinate two world leaders, one on foreign soil. LTTE is the world’s only terrorist organization to have its own naval, air attack and ground troops. LTTE also ran a defacto area with its own police, own judiciary, own currency, own administration what no other terrorist group was able to do.

2009 – May 2009 the LTTE ground force was militarily defeated by the Sri Lanka Army after LTTE refused numerous calls to lay down arms and surrender. LTTE leader and his key combatant leaders perished though the Sri Lankan military brought to safety close to 300,000 Tamils who had been forcibly taken by the LTTE as hostages and human shields. The rescue operation took place simultaneously alongside the military operation.

Then US Secretary of State Clinton whose close connections to LTTE Tamil Diaspora lobby resulted in a leaked email (4 May 2009) that discloses her trying to influence the IMF and World Bank to bring sanctions against a democratic government if they did not stop the onslaught against the LTTE. This in turn made numerous other US officials to bully Sri Lanka unfairly all with the intent of saving the LTTE from being militarily defeated.

http://www.asiantribune.com/node/89009

Clinton E-Mail Scandal: Never wanted Sri Lanka LTTE defeated

http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/17823 US Senator Patrick Leahy-Pro LTTE lobby (Tamils Against Genocide) in US work together to block IMF loan to Sri Lanka.

It is shocking that terrorist lobbies have pierced through to US lawmakers and are influencing how international loans are to be given or not.

Moreover the LTTE lobby in the US and among top US Congressman upto the Secretary of State has been such that the parties that supplied material support and have been banned have nonetheless succeeded in getting the US to commit itself to drafting resolutions against a democratically elected government that took the decision to militarily defeat the LTTE after suffering 30 years of terror and when all of the ceasefires, peace negotiations and third party mediations failed. The US-drafted resolutions calling for war crimes to be charged against the national Army gives passing reference to LTTE terrorist war crimes in particular the foreign parties that raised funds to buy weapons that killed innocent people.

There have been countless accusations against the Sri Lankan Army – from killing 40,000 people though not even 100names have been submitted of the dead in over 7 years! The onus is on those making allegations to produce the facts – instead they wish to hold tribunals based on evidence-less allegations by invisible witnesses and are proposing to change laws to give these anonymous people ‘protection’ but send soldiers who were defending the nation to prison. This is nothing any military in the world would agree to in particular the US army http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2015/08/23/sri-lanka-war-crimes-farce-us-law-of-war-manual-on-human-shields/

The US defense attache Lawrence Smith speaking at the 2011 Sri Lanka defense seminar had this to say http://www.sundaytimes.lk/110605/Columns/cafe.html

These influences have undermined America’s role in the war on terror as can be seen in the manner that Obama-Clinton are arming terrorists to depose Syrian President Assad instead of helping Assad eliminate the terrorists.

The influence that Obama-Clinton lobbies have exerted within the UN and associated offices is appalling and the Trump administration must re-evaluate the positions peddled against small nations like Sri Lanka through the UN.

America’s image with the world public has been affected by the Obama-Clinton policy of appeasing to terrorists and their lobbies masquerading as charities and human rights organizations overseas. The Trump administration should value the public image of America more than giving in to separatist terrorist lobbies functioning from overseas.  

As President elect Trump revealed in an interview deposing Saddam has ruined Iraq, deposing Libyan leader has done the same and this is why President Trump must take action against the terrorist LTTE and not Sri Lanka or its military that wanted to safeguard the country and protect its citizens from being bombed and killed by terrorists. The Trump administration should not encourage or allow separatist lobbies to divide countries as was seen throughout the Obama-Clinton rule.

2008 – US State Department accuses LTTE of engaging in abductions and extortions http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2007/103709.htm

2007 Guardian interview with Hillary Clinton calling LTTE terrorists as ‘freedom fighters’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ohhPelrw8M

When this interview was taken LTTE terrorists were awaiting trial in the US following arrests by FBI and Canadian authorities for attempting to buy weapons, including surface-to-air missiles while also trying to bribe US State Department officials into getting LTTE removed from the US list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Shows the manner they have managed to penetrate into US administration.

http://gaming.typepad.com/files/usa-v.-fnu-lnu.pdf

She even secured a meeting in December 2007 with her husband former President Bill Clinton.

Clinton chose to accept funds from these LTTE sources as well as claim LTTE to be freedom fighters inspite of the arrests made by US law enforcement officials.

LTTE lobbies showed their gratitude through their US Tamil Diaspora by going all out to campaign on behalf of Hillary Clinton in 2008 and in 2016. Tamils for Hillary Clinton’ was launched by billionaire Raj Rajaratnam specifically to make her the President in 2008 and 2016.

President Trumps statement that he would not allow foreign lobbyists to raise money for American elections is welcome.

We would like to bring to the attention of the President Raj Rajaratnam who launched ‘Tamils for Hillary Clinton’ to raise funds for her 2008 Presidential campaign. Please refer their facebook page https://web.facebook.com/Tamilsforhillary/?hc_ref=SEARCH&fref=nf

Rajaratnam is serving a prison term for insider-trading after being found guilty in 2011. US federal agents say they have documents that show donations to Rajaratnam’s Maryland based charity have been funnelled to the LTTE. These documents need to be further investigated given that US citizens had  been making donations unknowingly towards a terrorist movement and Rajaratnam’s charity had abused the kindness of US citizens. It is good to investigate all LTTE linked charities once again

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125583082290592413 (US officials say donations wound up Sri Lanka rebels)

 

2008 – US Lawmakers with ties to LTTE money (Article by Hassina Leelaratne February 2008)

The LTTE lobby access to US lawmakers should be of concern to the Trump administrators. The access paved the way for LTTE lobby to wriggle through red tape and exposes that even the most powerful country in the world can be fooled and penetrated. This is an aspect that the new US administration needs to take stock of.

The TRO which the US banned had been making regular contributions to US campaigns. Those US legislators who had been recipient of these funds were vocal supporters of LTTE separatism making the world believe that to be part of US policy.

The article discloses more US officials accepting funds from LTTE sources and the manner they showed allegiance with the LTTE separatist cause as a result.

The scale of that lobbying and how money has bought over foreign politicians can be seen in UK where a startling number of Parliamentarians have even spoken on top of LTTE stages with the LTTE terrorist leader as backdrop.

In 2007 Jane’s Intelligence Review claimed LTTE’s global illegal and legal operations accrued profits was in the margin of $200-300million per year. After 2009 with no allocation towards arms, ammunition or the upkeep of LTTE cadres and with the LTTE illicit and legal global networks in tact it is anyone’s guess as to how much its annual income is now and it should also make people realize that this money is now being utilized to ‘buy over’ and virtually influence foreign lawmakers and even officials in the UN.

2007 – 3 weeks after the Hillary interview on 15 November 2007 US Treasury used Executive Order 13224 to ban the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT).

TRO passed off its operations as CHARITABLE, when in fact it was raising money for a designated terrorist group responsible for heinous acts of terrorism’ were words of Adam J Szubin, Director of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

ABC News in an article says Rajaratnam had given $3.5million to the TRO to give to the LTTE terrorists. Rajaratnam’s home was raided by the FBI in 2006 for his ties with TRO. http://mobile.businessinsider.com/raj-rajaratnam-funded-sri-lankan-terror-group-2009-10

Rajaratnam a Democratic Party supporter had donated $118,000 to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama

Rajaratnam was also sued by the victims and families killed by LTTE.

2006 – for the 1^st time, on August 21, 2006, the District Court of Brooklyn, New York, charged eight LTTE agents with multiple crimes, including conspiracy to provide material support to the LTTE. The recent arrests were the outcome of two Sri Lankan Tamils, Nadarasa Yogarasa (Yoga), and Sathajhan Sarachandran (Satha), a resident in Canada, allegedly meeting with an undercover agent in Queens, New York in July 2006, to finalize an arms procurement deal. http://www.mfa.gov.lk/index.php/media/news-archive/697-sri-lanka-welcomes-ltte-arrests-in-the-us-?fontstyle=f-smaller

These arrests clearly show LTTE are not freedom fighters!

2005 – LTTE fronts are also accused of funding US Democratic Congressman from Illinois Danny Davis visit to Sri Lanka http://www.asiantribune.com/node/1707

The extent of campaigning for Hillary Clinton is shown

In 2014 the GOSL through gazette notification by President Mahinda Rajapakse incorporated UN Security Council Resolution 1373 and banned 16 LTTE fronts for materially supporting terrorism. Additionally over 400 individuals were also named.

Please note Visuvanathan Ruthirakumaran operates from USA.

2014 annual report of the US State Department’s Counter-terrorism Bureau The LTTE used its international contacts and the large Tamil diaspora in North America, Europe, and Asia to procure weapons, communications, funding, and other needed supplies,” In other words LTTE network still remains active. A core reason for the Trump administration to take action.

However ignoring these in 2015 with the change of government the pro-Clinton influence resulted in the new government removing 8 of these organizations giving a feeble excuse that it was to assist reconciliation. Foreign Governments where these 16 organizations are operating from and where all the individuals are living (some holding foreign passports) had not been investigated inspite of the ban. The legal arguments used to ban all 16 of these organizations remain valid still and President Trump’s administration must investigate them in particular the groups operating from the US.

Note: US based Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam run by V. Rudrakumaran remains banned. Here he is speaking at a podium with the LTTE terrorist flag.

LTTE Revives its US network by Camelia Nathaniel

http://www.news.lk/reviews/item/1698-the-ltte-revives-its-us-network

Despite FBI crippling LTTE’s US network in 2006 it has revived through V Rudrakumaran who runs the TGTE operating from New York and New Jersey using the cover of ‘human rights’. Foreigners involved in his advisory committee are Francis Boyle (US), Karen Parker (US), Peter Schalk (Sweden).

They support Tamils for Obama, United States Tamil Political Action Council, Tamils against Genocide. Others in the US network are Illankai Tamil Sangam – Federation of Tamil Associations of North America (FeTNA), Tamil Nadu Foundation.

The article claims the lobbying of US politicians and bureaucrats was revived by Dr. Elias Jeyarajah, President of the US Tamil Political Action Council (USTPAC) and Grace Pushparani Williams through the K Street lobby firm CJR.

The list of people highlighted by the GOSL operating from the US should now be investigated

http://www.mfa.gov.lk/index.php/en/news-from-other-media/4645-tgte-losing-lustre-among-tamils

What is the US stand on a US citizen subject to Federal Laws being involved with the LTTE and its leader Prabakaran.

V Rudrakumaran of TGTE operating a banned LTTE front must be investigated by the US authorities immediately. All entities connected to him and his organization must also be investigated.

http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2014/10/04/rudrakumaran-what-is-the-us-stand-on-a-us-citizen-subject-to-federal-laws-being-involved-with-the-ltte-and-its-leader-prabakaran/

Video of Rudrakumaran speaking with US flag and internationally banned LTTE flag in 2015 (this is an insult to the American flag)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbgzGW1tn8k

LINKS to LTTE fronts

• Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) http://www.tgte-us.org/
• British Tamil Forum http://tamilsforum.co.uk/
• Global Tamil Forum http://www.globaltamilforum.org/
• Australian Tamil Congress http://www.australiantamilcongress.com/en/
• Tamil Coordinating Committee http://www.murasam.com/listing/tamil-coordinating-committee–uk.html
• Canadian Tamil Congress http://www.canadiantamilcongress.ca/
• World Tamil Coordinating Committee https://worldtamilcoordinatingcommitte.wordpress.com/
• Tamil Youth Organization http://www.tyouk.org/
• Tamil Eelam People’s Assembly http://athavaneng.com/?tag=tamil-eelam-peoples-assembly-tepa

Reports – LTTE International Network

• Mapping militant organizations – LTTE by Stanford University http://web.stanford.edu/group/mappingmilitants/cgi-bin/groups/view/225
• Evolution Of The LTTE And International Networking http://www.businesstoday.lk/article.php?article=3481
• EU-US International Seminar on LTTE 2008 http://www.priu.gov.lk/ltte_report/chapter4.html
• FBI – Taming the Tigers from here in the US https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2008/january/tamil_tigers011008
• LTTE fundraising and money transfer operations – Shanika Jayasekera linct-aa.org/app/download/18844999/Tamil.Tiger.Fundraising.pdf

• 2008 EUROPOL seminar – act now to curb LTTE in Europe http://www.asiantribune.com/node/14692

Articles on LTTE war crimes

• Rudrakumaran & LTTE rump – http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2014/04/06/rudrakumaran-and-the-ltte-rump/
• The Death of a News Paper – LTTE Terrorism in North Americ http://www.sinhaya.com/newspaper_death.html
• More than 30 years: We, the victims of LTTE war crimes are STILL awaiting justice http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2016/02/19/more-than-30-years-we-the-victims-of-ltte-war-crimes-are-still-awaiting-justice/
• Investigate LTTE diaspora for war crimes By Jayantha Gunasekera http://www.sundaytimes.lk/151004/sunday-times-2/investigate-ltte-diaspora-for-war-crimes-by-jayantha-gunasekera-166616.html
• Former female LTTE political wing leader’s book on war offers critical view on LTTE and Tamil Society http://www.colombopage.com/archive_16A/Mar20_1458491079CH.php
• 2001 UNICEF statement on LTTE recruiting children by force to its child soldier cadre https://www.unicef.org/newsline/01pr61.htm

• LTTE criminal charge sheet http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2015/06/19/chargesheet-against-ltte-we-demand-accountability-of-30-years-of-ltte-war-crimes/
• Canadian federal court says TNA is subservient to the LTTE http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2016/10/17/canadian-federal-court-tna-was-subservient-to-the-rebels-membership-in-the-party-was-tantamount-to-membership-in-the-tamil-tigers-what/

Human Rights Watch reports on LTTE

• LTTE intimidation and extortion – https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/03/14/funding-final-war/ltte-intimidation-and-extortion-tamil-diaspora
• LTTE forcibly recruit child soldiers – https://www.hrw.org/news/2004/11/11/sri-lanka-tamil-tigers-forcibly-recruit-child-soldiers
• Living in Fear child soldiers of LTTE – https://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/srilanka1104/2.htm
• LTTE abuses against civilians in the Vanni – https://www.hrw.org/report/2008/12/15/trapped-and-mistreated/ltte-abuses-against-civilians-vanni
• Anna Neistat of Human Rights Watch http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2014/09/21/ltte-war-crimes-another-witness-anna-neistat-of-human-rights-watch/
• LTTE control of Hindu kovils in the West https://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/ltte0306/4.htm

International Arrests of LTTE

• 2014 – LTTE arrests in Malaysia http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2014/06/01/ltte-arrests-in-malaysia/
• 2012 – FBI arrests 2 LTTE operatives https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/newyork/press-releases/2012/two-alleged-operatives-of-the-tamil-tigers-terrorist-organization-extradited-to-brooklyn
• 2010 – LTTE fundraisers arrested in Germany http://www.bbc.com/sinhala/news/story/2010/03/100305_ltte_germany.shtml
• 2009 – LTTE group arrested in France for killing French police officer http://www.bbc.com/sinhala/news/story/2009/02/090223_paris_ltte.shtml
• 2008 – 33 tigers arrested in Italy http://archives.dailynews.lk/2008/06/19/sec01.asp
• 2007 – French police arrest dozens of Sri Lankan Tamils https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2007/04/ltte-a13.html
• 2007 – French police arrest 5 LTTE gangsters http://asiantribune.com/node/7513
• 2006 – FBI arrests in US and Canada https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/08/sril-a29.html
• 2006 – LTTE arrests for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/5308561/8-defendants-arrested-by-fbi-charged-with-conspiring-to-provide-material-support-resources-to-foreign-terrorist-organization
• British Tamil jailed for helping LTTE terror attacks http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5517148/British-based-Sri-Lankan-jailed-for-helping-Tamil-Tigers-in-terror-attacks.html

Videos on LTTE

• 2014 – Sri Lankan defended by French police from LTTE attacks
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKGUMPfMoQA
• 2013 – LTTE and British Adele Balasingham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kOU-KIE7ZU
• 2010 – Canadian court sentences LTTE fundraiser to 6-month in jail http://indianexpress.com/article/news-archive/print/canadian-court-sentences-ltte-fundraiser-to-6month-in-jail/
• 2008 – Sri Lankan Buddhist temple attacked by LTTE in UK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euUWzHA6IHY
• LTTE war crimes – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpPBJr4Pq5A
• Nirosha’s story – escaping from the LTTE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP43YclrMcs
• In 1985 LTTE struck the sacred city of Anuradhapura where Buddhist were in prayer and killed over 146 civilians and Buddhist clergy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWNmq_04ZeQ
• LTTE suicide blast kills Minister who came to start a students race – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv50bkb6ua4
• LTTE airforce – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko0sd8kfo2k
• LTTE seaforce – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snbn182CFcQ
• LTTE targeting civilians – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ6eaze7-DY

Foreign Parliamentarians & bureaucrats supporting LTTE

• 2016 – David Cameron LTTE’s stool pigeon http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2016/10/31/cameron-lttes-stool-pigeon/
• 2016 – Open Letter to UK Parliament on pro-LTTE activities by Mahinda Gunasekera http://www.sinhalanet.net/open-letter-to-uk-parliament-on-pro-ltte-activities
• 2015 – Canada please tell your MPs not to promote Eelam in Sri Lanka – Canadian politicians must serve Canadian citizens in Canada http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2015/06/18/canada-please-tell-canadian-tamil-mps-not-to-promote-eelam-in-sri-lanka-canadian-politicians-must-serve-canadian-interests/
• Statement by Mr. Jack Maclaren in the Ontario Legislature Glorifying Tamil Terrorism in Sri Lanka by Ira de Silva http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2015/11/30/statement-by-mr-jack-maclaren-in-the-ontario-legislature-glorifying-tamil-terrorism-in-sri-lanka/
• LTTE fronts lobbies British politicians http://mfa.gov.lk/index.php/en/news-from-other-media/5055-terrorist-front-lobbies-british-politicians
• 2013 –Your Majesty are you aware that UK MPs are openly supporting LTTE fronts https://ltteirony.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/your-majesty-are-you-aware-that-uk-mps-openly-support-ltte-terrorist-fronts-gtfbtf/
• 2013 – John Arque of Amnesty International speaking at TGTE fund raiser http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2013/04/24/john-argue-of-amnesty-international-your-speaking-at-the-transnational-government-of-tamil-eelam-fund-raiser/
• 2010 – UK MPs take pro-LTTE stand to win Tamil votes http://www.sundaytimes.lk/101219/News/nws_0103.html
• 2007 – Times of London confirms friendship of UK MP Keith Vaz and LTTE http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2007/12/times-in-london-confirms-friendship-of.html
• 2005 – Open letter to New South Wales Member of Parliament Ms. Virginia Judge by Mahinda Gunasekera http://www.asiantribune.com/another-open-letter-new-south-wales-member-parliament
• Australia – Bruce Haigh you cannot change the fact that LTTE remains a vanquished terrorist organization http://www.spur.asn.au/index.php/77-spur/241-bruce-haighyou-cannot-change-the-fact-that-ltte-remains-a-vanquished-terrorist-organization

LTTE fronts & UN

LTTE fronts are regular participants at UNHRC sessions and have meetings with UN officials. Many of the UN reports against Sri Lanka have been by people closely associated with these LTTE fronts.

• 2014 – How did LTTE operatives have UNHCR passes http://www.mfa.gov.lk/index.php/en/news-from-other-media/4721-how-did-ltte-operatives-have-unhcr-passes-
• 2014 – terrorist front reappear at UNHRC in Geneva https://ltteagents.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/terrorist-fronts-reappear-at-unhrc-in-geneva/
• LTTE affiliates upto same old tricks in Geneva – http://dailynews.lk/features/ltte-affiliates-same-old-tricks-geneva-prof-dr-rohan-gunaratna
• 2013 – Impartiality of UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay questionable – Ira de Silva http://www.asiantribune.com/node/64227
• Internationally banned LTTE fronts influence UNHRC resolutions http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2015/10/06/hilarious-internationally-banned-ltte-terrorist-fronts-influence-unhrc-resolutions/

LTTE & the ‘business’ of refugees/asylum seekers & other illegalities

• 2016 – Canada hosts Sri Lanka’s most wanted terrorist http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2014/07/06/canada-hosts-sri-lankas-most-wanted-terrorist/
• 2015 – Global Narcotics Trade and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/41748
• 2015 – Canada Kandasamy temple a cash cow for LTTE says Canada Border Services Agency report http://www.adaderana.lk/news/33183/canada-kandasamy-temple-a-cash-cow-for-ltte-cbsa-report
• 2015 – Tamil Tiger allegedly sent to Toronto to run guerrilla group’s Canadian front ordered deported for terrorism http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/tamil-tiger-allegedly-sent-to-toronto-to-run-guerrilla-groups-canadian-front-ordered-deported-for-terrorism
• 2015 – Malaysia – LTTE cadre involved in credit card scams and extortion http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2015/08/15/in-hiding-but-busy-scamming-ltte-fighter-makes-killing-in-credit-card-scams-and-extortion/
• 2013 – Sri Lanka’s Tamils – ‘refugees’ or economic migrants http://dailynews.lk/2013/07/22/features/sri-lanka%E2%80%99s-tamil-%E2%80%9Crefugees%E2%80%9D-or-economic-migrants
• 2012 – 148 migrants arrested on their way to Canada
• http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/148-sri-lankan-migrants-arrested-on-their-way-to-canada
• 2012 – Australia says Sri Lankans heading to Australia are ‘economic migrants’ and not refugees http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-06/an-sri-lankans-27economic-migrants272c-not-refugees/4355860
• 2008 – LTTE involved in credit card fraud in Kenya http://www.asiantribune.com/node/12396
• 2008 – LTTE front organizations running riot in UK http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/LTTE-front-organisations-running-riot-in-UK/articleshow/2699968.cms
• 2008 – FBI warns not to donate to bogus LTTE charities http://www.asiantribune.com/node/9088
• 2007 – When one charity is banned LTTE finds another to raise funds in the UK by Mike Hitchen http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2007/12/when-one-charity-is-banned-ltte-finds.html (when UK delisted TRO, LTTE quickly transferred funds and began White Pigeon)
• 2007 – Tamil Tigers Control a Portion of Montréal’s One Billion Dollar Drug Trade – Jane’s Intelligence Review http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/7094
• LTTE hawala network in Tamil Nadu – http://lankalibrary.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3240
• LTTE collected 3million Euros in Germany http://srilankawatch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1091
• http://www.onlanka.com/news/sri-lankas-tamil-refugees-or-economic-migrants-and-the-boat-smuggling-mafia.html LTTE boat smuggling mafia

Our appeal to President Donald Trump

• Review US stand on Sri Lanka. As examples will show, while the FBI has been arresting LTTE operatives in the US and has been working closely with international law enforcement operatives, the foreign domiciled LTTE terrorist lobby has been using ‘Tamil’ votes and money to influence foreign MPs and bureaucrats into taking a pro-LTTE stand against the Sri Lankan Government. This has not only affected diplomatic relations but has unnecessarily caused tensions. ‘Tamils of Hillary Clinton’ lobby and the many US congressman who had been tapped as well as the attempts to even bribe US officials to remove LTTE as a foreign terrorist organization goes to show the lengths these lobbies will go to while living in the US. It is time some action was taken against them given that President Trumps election pledge was to ban foreign parties lobbying US politicians. Such actions by LTTE diaspora groups are a threat to democracy in the US.
• Review media, human rights reports, UN reports & UNHRC resolutions against Sri Lanka. From the manner the mainstream media has been exposed for their bias and lies during the US Presidential election, as well as the Soros-funded anti-Trump protests taking place throughout the US, will reveal the double standards and hypocrisies that prevail. Sri Lanka has been a victim of such media bias with reports, documentaries funded by the same sources that are protesting against Mr.Trump. The LTTE lobbies are even dictating how UNHRC resolutions are to be drafted and they are the one’s supplying the ‘witnesses’ whom the UNHRC are using to implicate soldiers who defeated the terrorists as war criminals. LTTE cadres had been arrested with UNHCR passes and the former UNHRC head immediately after leaving office was a chief guest at an event organized by the LTTE fronts in Canada. These are all conflicts of interests. These influences are such that demands are being made to change Sri Lanka’s constitution, penal codes, state administration, national flag, national anthem, the country’s history – all of which are unfair demands made through LTTE separatist lobbies trying to carve a separate area out of an island nation that is only 65,610 km² as compared to US 834 million km²
• We welcome President Trumps decision to severely vet all immigrants as the LTTE runs a human smuggling/boat people smuggling network and are accused of accepting money to send ‘economic migrants’ as asylum seekers. This is a racket taking place in Canada, UK, EU and Australia and should be investigated. Lot of money is involved and there are centres in the UK which charges to be physically abused so a medical officer can confirm the wounds were recent and claim they were committed by the Sri Lanka Army. These allegations should be investigated and action taken.
• The bias of the UN & illegalities of UNHRC Resolutions was seen in the manner UNSG and UNHRC head were using their international status to influence the US election against Mr. Trump. UNHRC head is on record to say that Mr. Trump was ‘dangerous’ to the world http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2016/11/15/unsg-unhrc-head-must-apologize-to-president-donald-trump/ these are the personalities who have been meeting with LTTE lobbies and allowing terrorist fronts to influence global systems. LTTE support for Mrs. Clinton led to the US resolutions against Sri Lanka in the UNHRC. LTTE terrorist fronts who are banned cannot be allowed to influence war crimes tribunals against a national army that was only defending the country and its citizens. All the allegations of war crimes against the Sri Lankan Army are coming from LTTE fronts, LTTE supporters (local and international), foreign MPs linked to LTTE, UN officials linked to LTTE, media, human rights organizations linked to LTTE. Trump would never allow US army to be held for war crimes by Al Qaeda or ISIS terrorists or their supporters! The peace loving people of Sri Lanka appeals to the new US administration to review these resolutions on the merit of evidence and the legal arguments by international terrorist experts and not parties linked to LTTE lobbies.
• Trump’s interview on Syria clearly conveyed to the public that US should be helping nations fighting terrorists not supplying arms to unknown terror groups trying to dislodge leaders of a country. We appreciate this stand. Similarly, we would like to inform that LTTE is far more ruthless than the jihadist terrorists the West is fearful of. No jihadist group had its own naval, airforce and groundforce like the LTTE did. No jihadist group had its own police, its own courts, its own currency, its own schools, its own administrative service. No jihadist group has carried out over 300 suicide attacks like the LTTE. No jihadist group has killed 2 world leaders, one a foreigner and on foreign soil. This shows that LTTE is not to be underestimated given large numbers of LTTE cadres are now overseas as asylum seekers and they can be contracted to do any damage overseas. US must seek assistance of Canada, UK, EU, Australia and South Africa and other Asian nations to intensively tabulate all refugees/asylum seekers that have arrived in their countries and their connections to the LTTE for the safety of foreign citizens as well as the world at large.

This compilation is just a small portion of what LTTE and its supporters both in Sri Lanka and overseas have been doing for 30 years. Terrorism has become a business where those overseas are living in luxury raising funds and ammunition for a group to create mayhem elsewhere while they use the conflict to generate illegal and legal incomes as well as influence and exert power at political levels. This criminal syndicate must be stopped. We welcome President Trump’s new foreign policy approach – departing from an interventionist policy to one of working for mutual goodwill. We hope that action will be initiated against all parties that are out to upset those objectives.

Shenali D Waduge