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CANDAS WATERLOO UNIVERSITY COMPUTER STUDENT IS ORDERED EXTRADITED TO US TO STAND TRIAL WITH 12 MEN FOR HELPING LTTE
By Walter JayawardhanaRamanan Mylvaganam (31) , Canadas Waterloo University post graduate student who is charged with supplying computer related material to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a group proscribed in Canada as a terrorist group has been ordered to be extradited to the United States to stand trial with few others who are charged with similar offenses. But Canadas Mississauga News said he will remain in custody until his appeal against the extradition order is heard before a Federal Court judge. The newspaper was quoting Justice Canada. The court has not yet set a date to hear his appeal. Mylvaganam, a computer engineering student at University of Waterloo
who came to Canada from Sri Lanka in 1992, was arrested on Aug. 22,
2006 at his Derry Rd. apartment by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
He was picked up on a provisional warrant at the request of American
authorities. One month later, Mylvaganam was granted bail and returned to university,
where he continued to pursue a master's degree until being returned
into custody last week, the newspaper said. Mylvaganam served as a vice-president of the university's Tamil
Students Association in 2004. In April 2006, the Tigers were added to Canada's official list
of terrorist organizations. The sweep also included arrests in Buffalo, San Jose, Seattle and Connecticut. Officials say the group kept in contact with top Tamil Tiger
operatives in Sri Lanka and the U.S. It tried to obtain compasses, computers
and night-vision goggles for the Tigers, but also had bigger plans that
included the purchase of aviation equipment, American prosecutors allege.
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