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IF THE PROSCRIBING LAWS OF A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION ALLOWS A FRONT TO TEACH TERRORIST DOCTRINE TO STUDENTS THE LAW MUST BE AN ASS SAYS NEW YORK SOCIETY OF SRI LANKANS

By Walter Jayawardhana

The New York Society for United Sri Lankans in a letter addressed to Mr. Evans Owens of the US Embassy in Colombo said if the laws banning the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the US allow a front organization of the terrorists to teach Tamil students of New York such doctrines as ethnic cleansing as correct the proscribing law must be a real ass and a real hollow one.

The Society in a letter signed by its President Sumith DeSilva queried from Owens why the students in the sports meet were carrying the atrocious Tiger flag of the most vicious Prabhakaran instead of a Lion flag, a dharma charka of India or a Union Jack if the organizers did not represent the terrorists and asked whether US embassies would have tolerated if the flag of Al Queda was carried in front of the march past.

He was replying to a reply published by the US embassy in Colombo in the Daily News commenting on students carrying separatist flags of the LTTE in a New York sports meet and those Tamil students to be taught on a curriculum prepared in Kilinochchi. The following is the full text of the letter:

“We were amazed to see the US embassy in Colombo Sri Lanka treating a front organization of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in New York with kid gloves. Any Sri Lankan expatriate in New York understands that the so called sports meet that was reported in the Daily News was a bold step to promote the liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam among the expatriate Tamils despite the fact that the LTTE is listed as a terrorist organization under the State Department. There would have been a different reaction from US embassies anywhere if such a sports meet was held with the Al Queda flag being carried at the front.

“If the organizers were not LTTE they would have given a Lion Flag, a Union jack or India’s Dharma Chakra to be carried in front of the march past instead of the flag of the world’s most ferocious terrorist Velupillai Prabhakaran. Carrying a flag of a putative state, on par with this nation’s stars and stripes would show not only what you are ready to tolerate and but also what you would not dare even to investigate. We are glad to know that at least your letter showed to the world that some US embassies would defend such an action for reasons best known to themselves.

“You say that the LTTE is a banned organization under law. That law becomes a real ass if any front organization is able to hoist the flag of the banned organization, hold classes for the Tamil children in New York on the Fascist and racist policies of the organization, promote ethnic cleansing for a racist state, promote suicide bombing etc. which are well known policies of the organization.

Under this proscribing law can you please tell us whether a single person has ever been prosecuted for supporting or funding the LTTE? As far as we know there isn’t a single individual in the US so far.
“As an individual who is receiving your salary from the US tax payers like us you should stop actively or passively supporting such policies. The US may not be having a central education policy. Could you please explain under what kind of law US kids could be allowed to be educated in such inhuman uncivilized doctrines? Double talk and hairsplitting arguments are also sure avenues to allow such brutal inhuman acts. Next time you will be openly advocating teaching policies diametrically opposed to the US constitution in some queer schools in New York”

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