{"id":55499,"date":"2016-06-12T19:10:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T01:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=55499"},"modified":"2016-06-12T11:31:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T18:31:27","slug":"us-says-ltte-collecting-funds-while-sri-lanka-is-deproscribing-these-ltte-fronts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/12\/us-says-ltte-collecting-funds-while-sri-lanka-is-deproscribing-these-ltte-fronts\/","title":{"rendered":"US says LTTE collecting funds while Sri Lanka is deproscribing these LTTE fronts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Prabakaran may have been leader of the LTTE but he was not the man collecting funds abroad to procure arms\/ammunition, carry out propaganda and induce foreign players to promote Eelam ideology. That job was done by the LTTE fronts who were named, shamed and banned incorporating the UN Security Council Resolution 1373 in April 2014. 16 organizations all of whom were operating from outside Sri Lanka and over 400 individuals linked to them were declared banned under this Resolution. While commending the US State Department for informing the world what people already knew, what is puzzling is why the GOSL has deproscribed a select handful of them when the US State Department in its annual counter terrorism report says that LTTE fronts are still continuing fund raising. At the same time what is equally puzzling is why US and other foreign governments are joining the TNA and the Northern Province Chief Minister in calling for demilitarization, removal of military camps and soldiers from the North when even in Tamil Nadu the calls for the creation of Eelam is increasing? Do they want us to return to the 1980s and then take Sri Lanka backwards to decades more of bloodshed and mayhem? The Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, the Prime Minister & the President has some explaining to do.<\/p>\n

The US State Department Report says that LTTE\u2019s financial network of support continued operations in 2015 which implies from the time the Ranil-Maithri government came to power and questions why in September 2015 selected LTTE fronts were de-proscribed as the US would have certainly shared their findings with the GOSL. Moreover, the specific mention of the Tamil diaspora in North Americca, Europe and Asia automatically deduces the involvement of the very entities that the Rajapakse Government banned in 2014 of procuring weapons, communications, funds and other supplies. What we should seriously worry now is how much have they procured since 2015 and where are these now? The other worrying factor is the report\u2019s mention of these LTTE fronts being employed charities as fronts to collect and divert funds for its activities.\u201d Now have we not been saying this all along? At least now the US State Department has put it on record.<\/p>\n

US State Dept \u2013 LTTE remains on US List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations http:\/\/www.state.gov\/j\/ct\/rls\/crt\/2015\/257523.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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