Insight By Sunil Kumar

This is all the more reason why Nations currently insisting that Sri Lanka needs to be investigated over cooked up claims need to be made awareƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ that their calls are unjustifiedƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  and the claimsƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ more and more apparent as skullduggery cleverly put together by disgruntled and deposedƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Tamil Tiger Supportives and all their global lobbies against the Government of Sri Lanka need to be contradicted and trashed on the basis that the GOSL is being implicated by its enemies linked to the Tamil Tigers.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Indeed there are attempts to recussitate the Tamil Tigers globally and their pro-active elements visibly apparent whether it be at Embassies, cricket matches, sporting events and many public gatherings involving Sri LankaƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ but for the best part worthless ones as the world knows that these attempts are in favour of a dangerousƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  terror group which sprang up in Sri Lanka whose presence is not onlyƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ reprehensible and intolerable but an impending danger to global security inasmuch as Al Qaeda was,ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  whose effectivities andƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ operational capacities have alsoƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ beenƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  virtually dismantled after the demise of Osama Bin LadenƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  where vigilance towards preventing such monstrosities relative to both terror groups and all other terrorist activities have become a top priority particularly after 9/11 where the world must never ever be faced with similar perils or the horror of it all where terrorism has always been the instigative cause.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Sadly thoughƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ in the latter mentionedƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ case there is an organization called the Taliban whose effectivities towards terror activitiesƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  linked to Al Qaeda have not been completely nullified where a price is being paid in places such as Pakistan, India and Afghanistan for this lapse ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ where the terror continues and the dangers of permitting terrorism to propagate an issue needing anƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ immediate response from those dedicated to eradicate it with the capicity to do soƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ !

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ButƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ when reports relative to the topic of the possible resurgence ofƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  LTTE terrorismƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  surfaces in publications such as ASIES, a French current affairs magazine in its inaugural issue whichƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ says the LTTE has set up new networks in Tamil Nadu, Canada and Europe and is in the process of re-grouping for another war ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ the unmitigated publicity for the theme, while it is visibly apparent is perhaps alsoƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ an instigative motive as one inferenceƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  and it needs to be confounded asƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  apprehensive and perhaps even overkill. Having said this, it also needs to be emphasized that the watch on any activities corresponding to the possibilities thereof has to continue and preventive action needing application towards the detering of any related ambitions which is why the Governments of India, Canada, Norway and other Europeam Nations have always given top priority towards hounding and dismantling any such activities where the aspirants have either gone underground or perhaps continue what one might term token activities with minimal resources~ whereƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ theƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Neo Nazis too have similar aspirations in the world of today in the form of Neo Naziism of many titles,ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  forms and shapes spreadƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ in certain parts of the worldƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ which is never tolerated and put down the moment it emerges.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ On this basisƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ there seem hardly any likelihood andƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ based on the measures taken already by related law enforcement agencies around the worldƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ that the Tamil Tigers have anywhere to go other than perhaps the same watery grave Osama Bin Laden was sent to and their champions perhaps needing other ventures which might make their existences worthwhile and productive to mankind in general rather thnan making a hash of it through doomsday predictions!

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Publicity to the ASIESƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ publication originally in French and translated into EnglishƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ has beenƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ presented to theƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ media by the External Affairs Ministry which states thatƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  ” The prodigal son of the North-Korean dictator and the tattooed members of the Chinese mafias are not the only ones to launder dirty money in the “great boiler” of the Macao and Hong Kong casinos. Members of the LTTE, the separatist organization of the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, also used that stratagem in order to buy weapons from Burma and Thailand, before being crushed in 2009 by the government. But have the Tigers been eliminated for good, after twenty-six years of a civil war which has allegedly killed between 80,000 and 100,000 people? Intelligence services of several countries affirm that the Tigers are reorganizing themselves. A section of the logistic services of the LTTE has remained intact. It has established new networks with the Diaspora in Tamil Nadu (India), Canada and Europe.

During summer 20 I 0 the Canadians intercepted, off the coasts of Vancouver, a boat carrying about five hundred Tamil refugees suspected of belonging to the LTTE. Cells of the Tigers are allegedly present in France, Great Britain, Norway and several Asian countries.

In 2009, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, the leader of the international department of the LTTE, had been arrested in Thailand and extradited to Sri Lanka. Like nature, guerrillas donƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢t like emptiness: a new command comprised of eight members of the organization has recently made contact with emissaries of the Sri Lankan government, in order to propose the release of that charismatic leader in exchange for the transformation of the group into a political formation. This way, the Tigers are hoping to increase their ranks with those who, among the 10,000 members arrested after their military defeat, are remaining faithful to their separatist ideals. The Sri Lankan leaders fear their might be a trap: the revival of the war in the north of the island, some day.”ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Obviously with many assumptions and some factsƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ albeit with speculative inferences.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Diabolical as it all sounds, it still seems wishful thinking on the part of some and paranoia (as refered to previouslyƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ) by others, that the Government of Sri Lanka or the Global Coalition Against Terrorism will not see through such a concept and ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ theƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  grave consequences of the emergence of the Tamil Tigers and the impactƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  such an occurence would have on the world. By this token,ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ publicity inƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  the French Magazine ASIESƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ towards the possibleƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  revival of the LTTEƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ could easily be misinterpreted asƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ a ploy by supportives to re-kindleƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ a dead concept more than reality although the GOSL must surely be investigating the warnings sounded with anƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ unreserved awareness knowing fully well its commitment to the security of Sri LankaƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ !