{"id":114198,"date":"2021-05-12T15:16:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=114198"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:16:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:16:20","slug":"were-norway-and-solheim-pro-ltte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/05\/12\/were-norway-and-solheim-pro-ltte\/","title":{"rendered":"Were Norway and Solheim pro-LTTE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Actvist and Political Communications Researcher, May 12th., 2021. <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

RENOUNCED INDIAN\nJOURNALIST M.R. NARAYAN SWAMY SAYS – “IN REALITY IT WAS NOT”.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I fully disagree with the statement – M.R. Narayan\nSwamy has made in an article published by the https:\/\/www.themorning.lk\/were-norway-and-solheim-pro-ltte\/<\/a>\nthe above dated May 9, 2021, “that Norway was pro-LTTE when in reality it was\nnot”.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NORWAY WAS\nINDEED PRO-LTTE SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MILITANT MOVEMENT IN 1976 BY\nVELUPILLAI PRABHARAN AS THE SUCCESSOR TO AN ORGANIZATION HE HAD FORMED IN THE\nEARLIER 1970s.
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NORWAY WAS PRO-LTTE TILL THE LTTE WAS DEFEATED BY\nTHE SRI LANKA TRI FORCES ON MAY 17th., 2009. AND FORMALLY ANNOUNCED ON MAY\n19th., 2009. Norway is home for some of the frontline lobbying NGO’s of the\nLTTE and has provided operational facilities to many of the hardcore LTTEers\nwho had located themselves as refugees and naturalized now as Norwegian\ncitizens and still active in propergating their ideology and doctrine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norway’s\ninvolvement with Sri Lanka goes back to the meeting between a Norwegian TV\njournalist and one Anthony Rajendam, from the fishing community of Gurunagar in\nJaffna peninsular who went in a motorbike in the 1950s with another friend to\nreach UK, when they met in London, accidently. This journalist invited him to\nNorway, and thus started the relationship with Norway and Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the\nNorwegian NGO’s supporting the “MUKTI BAHINI” with arms and\nammunitions in the aftermath of the war that began after the Pakistani military\nbased in West Pakistan launched “Operation Searchlight” against the\npeople of East Pakistan on the night of 25 March 1971, the violent attacks of\nthe “MUKTI BAHINI” in East Pakistan against the Pakistani army were\nfilmed by this journalist and telecasted in Norway. With close relationship\nwith the Norwegians and India through these incidents, Norway got involved in\nthe geo-politics of Sri Lanka and India viz-a-viz support to the self\ndetermination of so-called minority Tamil people of the North, according to\nthem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erik Solhiem’s involvement with Sri Lanka begins\nin 2002 after he was assigned as the Peace Negotiator and what did he know that\ntook place between 1970’s and 2000 regarding the type of support that Norway\ngave Prabaharan and his groups? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalist M R Narayan Swamy is thus challenged<\/strong>\nby this writer that ” that Norway was pro-LTTE when in reality it was\nnot” as a FALSE STATEMENT.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NORWAY INDEED WAS PRO-LTTE, EVEN NOW. This does\nnot mean that all the Norwegians are pro-LTTE, only those who believed in their\nfalse propaganda. \n\nThe\nNorwegians do not like violence. They are indeed a “PEACE” loving\nNation.   \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Actvist and Political Communications Researcher, May 12th., 2021. RENOUNCED INDIAN JOURNALIST M.R. NARAYAN SWAMY SAYS – “IN REALITY IT WAS NOT”. I fully disagree with the statement – M.R. Narayan Swamy has made in an article published by the https:\/\/www.themorning.lk\/were-norway-and-solheim-pro-ltte\/ the above dated May 9, 2021, “that Norway was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noor-nizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}