{"id":74566,"date":"2018-02-09T17:42:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T23:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=74566"},"modified":"2018-02-09T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T17:40:43","slug":"britains-vvip-terrorists-the-ltte-case-of-brigadier-priyankara-fernando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/09\/britains-vvip-terrorists-the-ltte-case-of-brigadier-priyankara-fernando\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s VVIP Terrorists the LTTE: Case of Brigadier Priyankara Fernando"},"content":{"rendered":"

We want truth & justice\u201d \u2013 oh yes, so do we. But we need to get some facts cleared first. Can the British Government please explain to the world why LTTE remains banned in the UK since 2001 while LTTE supporters are free to carry LTTE flags, hold pro-LTTE rallies and scream Our Nation Tamil Eelam \u2013 Our Leader Prabakaran? We are a little puzzled why banned terrorist movements get police protection for these rallies too. Why should the British Government molly-cuddle LTTE terrorists & their supporters. We would very much like to have an answer to this. British MPs are openly canvassing for LTTE fronts. This is totally against every protocol the Brits preach and nowhere near the supposed gentlemen\u2019s behavior the British are so cocky about. Britain has a lot to answer in giving VVIP status to a terrorist organization that remains banned in the UK and it is damn hilarious to find the perpetrators of crimes pointing fingers and getting away because Governments like the UK are playing footsie.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s first start with the issue at hand.<\/p>\n

On 4th\u00a0February 2018 Sri Lanka celebrated what we presume to be 70 years of independence. That same day a bunch of people holding LTTE flags decided to stage a protest outside the Sri Lanka High Commission in London. For what reason the Mission decided to send its officials out of the compound, we do not know, but we did see Brig. Priyankara Fernando serving as the Defense Counselor giving a hand message to the terrorist supporters. Let\u2019s get it clear that there were LTTE supporters as they were all carrying LTTE flags and screaming Our Leader Prabakaran.<\/p>\n

Our nation : Tamil Eelam<\/p>\n

Our Leader : Prabakaran<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7WhDtGLWBzQ<\/a> pro-LTTE protest<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4uTiyacA22w<\/a> pro-LTTE protest<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bwcn7l6qABQ&feature=youtu.be<\/a> the video of Brig. Fernando making a throat slitting hand gesture.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mu6T5nfLZmA<\/a> – an Indian questioning the Brig about 500 Indian fishermen killed\u2026 another fairytale<\/p>\n

The video having gone viral over social media, suddenly has the Foreign Ministry suspending the Brigadier & recalling him back to Colombo sans investigation or explanation which days later led to the intervention of the Sri Lankan President to revoke the suspension.<\/p>\n

Protestors carrying LTTE flags and shouting Our Eelam and Our Leader Prabakaran are NOT representing Tamil civilians. Let\u2019s get that cleared. UN & International Community are on record and enough evidence is available to conclude that Tamils were kept as human shields and hostages during the final stages of the conflict despite appeals to release them and plenty of Tamils were shot by LTTE when trying to flee and enter Sri Lankan Government areas. Therefore, anyone commenting on the incident has to realize that the protestors were promoting LTTE and Eelam and using civilian slogans as a camouflage only. Anyone promoting a terrorist organization are no cherubic angels!<\/p>\n

What a farcical tragi-comedy unfolded thereafter. The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam \u2013 that \u2018government\u2019 in the sky which continues to, by the way remain banned under UNSC 1373 as an LTTE front is urging the British Government to take action against the Brigadier for war crimes, genocide. The hilarious part about this allegation is that the intellectually-weak who actually believe and accept this notion have not thought for a minute to check the population statistics and wonder how Tamil population can be increasing while a genocide is taking place. Hilarious isn\u2019t it? Maybe they all need a new maths teacher!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the real crusader of truth, Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group on Sri Lanka, Lord Naseby remarked: If there is any genocide in Sri Lanka it is by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who hold civilian Tamils by force as a human shield in the war. This talk about genocide is rubbish. The only people who are causing genocide are the LTTE who are holding the civilians as a human shield.\u201d <\/em>(March 2009)<\/p>\n

While the TGTE members, that government in the sky has been living in the UK and other foreign climes, making hay with the money generated from the very lucrative LTTE business kitty of illegal and legal activities, it was people like Brig Fernando who liberated many Tamils who were kept as hostages and human shields by the LTTE and the Tamil people he saved continue to shower praise.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t8QhSNwcau4<\/a><\/p>\n

About Brig. Priyankara Fernando<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B7nWiGffJ7I<\/a> a friend\u2019s version of Brig. Fernando<\/p>\n

The social media circulated 2 letters the first letter was sent by Joan Ryan & Siobhan McDonagh.<\/p>\n

This letter addressed to Boris Johnson, Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs and signed by MPs Joan Ryan and Siobhain McDonagh on 5th<\/sup> February 2018 claimed that Members of the Tamil community had been \u2018congregating peacefully\u2019 outside the Sri Lanka High Commission wherein Brig. Priyankara Fernando had made a throat slitting hand gesture and should be expelled from UK.<\/p>\n

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Who is Joan Ryan? Joan Marie Ryan, is a former Labour MP from Enfield. She is presently the CEO and Policy & Communication Advisor of the British Tamil Forum (named as a LTTE from in 2014 and removed by the present Government in 2015 and part of the umbrella organization headed by Global Tamil Forum also banned in 2014 and ban removed in 2015)<\/p>\n

Her election campaign was helped by Dr. Muregeshu Vinayagamoorthy from Nottingham who provided Pratheepan Thavarasa, a former bodyguard of Prabakaran & later deputy head of LTTE procurement safe haven in his home. Dr. Moorthy was jailed in US for 4 years having attempted to bribe US officials to delist LTTE. His right to practice was also removed in the UK.<\/p>\n

The All Party Parliamentary Group is one of the 4 Advocacy Lobby wings of the British Tamil Forum explicityly set up to lobby UK MPs. The other 3 groups are the Tamils for Labor, British Tamils for Liberal Democrats, British Tamil Conservatives. The tapped British MPs are in turn able to influence British Public Officials and the Commonwealth Office. Why else did David Miliband dash over to stop the military offensive in 2009 J The authenticity of this was confirmed in a wikileaks that revealed Milibands trip had nothing to do with human rights but everything to do with obtaining Tamil votes.<\/p>\n

Now you can guess why British MPs are 24×7 issuing statements against Sri Lanka! How else are fronts associated with the LTTE able to hold inauguration sessions inside the British Parliament. You won\u2019t find Al Qaeda or ISIS being so lucky \u2013 so what\u2019s this special treatment the Brits are giving to LTTE?<\/p>\n

If anyone is in doubt about the LTTE links, here\u2019s another example the 1st<\/sup> President of BTF was Kandiah Senthilkumar who was an associate of then LTTE UK Chief Shanthan (cousin of Prabakaran\u2019s wife) who was arrested by the British police in June 2007. The LTTE web site www.eelam.com was registered in A. C. Shanthan\u2019s name, with the LTTE HQ, Eelam House, 202 Long Lane, London SE1 as the registered address<\/p>\n

This is what former Tamil Guardian editor Rajasingham Jayadevan wrote of the LTTE-BTF relationship<\/p>\n

Shanthan used the services of Liverpool basd Dr. N Satchthananthan & Senthilkumar to extend his forceful takeover efforts. Senthilkumar who is the present head of the British Tamil Forum who successfully brought the IBC and TTN under LTTE control while Dr. Satchithananthan played his role obediently to take over the Tamil Guardian. Those who did not co-operate were branded traitors & treated with contempt\u201d.<\/p>\n

The BTF set up the APPGT in May 2007 and its Chairman was Keith Vaz Labor MP who was investigated for corruption and of late for pimping too J APPGT Vice Chairman was MP Simon Hughes.<\/p>\n

Anything coming out of their mouths is therefore controversial and biased given that they are holding portfolios in these fronts.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, Simon Hughes constituency is Southwark and Burmondsey in London where the international headquarters of the LTTE is (Eelaam House 202 Long Lane, London) Britain you seriously need to redefine what a banned organization is because we are somewhat puzzled how a banned terrorist organization can openly run an international office in London itself!<\/p>\n

By 2011, the BTF managed to expand APPGT to 69 British MPs which included Lee Scott as Chair, Virendra Sharma, Siobhain McDonagh, Gavin Barvell, Robert Halfon. It is alleged that the LTTE through its regional finance head Vasanthan from Southall funded the by-election which Sharma contested.<\/p>\n

The 2nd<\/sup> letter\u2019s authenticity is very much in question given that the date was 2nd<\/sup> February 2018 (2 days before the pro-LTTE protest) and signed by Mangala Samaraweera as Foreign Minister though he is no longer the Foreign Minister and does not have any mandate to sign as Foreign Minister. What is shocking about this letter is that it is claiming that the PM recommended to the President to suspend the defense attache and court martial him upon his return.<\/p>\n

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It is at the behest of the letter by pro-LTTE British stooges that the Foreign Ministry of Sri Lanka issued a media release on 6 February 2018 suspending the Defense Attache.<\/p>\n

Foreign Ministry response on 6 February 2018 – http:\/\/www.mfa.gov.lk\/images\/stories\/MediaRel-SLUK.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

The manner that the British MPs holding posts in the pro-LTTE fronts called for the removal of the Brigadier and the foreign ministry reaction automatically reasserts the allegation that Sri Lanka foreign policy was being decided and lobbied from overseas. This allegation gathers further momentum in the 2013 Singapore Principles where the former Foreign Minister and present promoter of a new constitution assured to change the Sri Lankan constitution to meet the desires of the LTTE diaspora lobby that they met in Singapore.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

UK banned LTTE (British Terrorism Act 2000) in February 2001 months before 9\/11. Nevertheless, LTTE had been operating Eelam House<\/strong>\u201d located in Mitcham, Surrey since 1970s which was opened by Bishop Rayappu Joseph. Anton & Adele Balasingham freely operated from UK. Adele who trained females & Tamil children to kill and even commit suicide lives very happily in the UK. What is stopping the UK government from pursuing criminal charges against her?<\/p>\n

Are these ban\u2019s worth its weight if the promoters of the banned organization get to hob-nob with British MPs and determine policy through their lobbying?<\/p>\n

Every country that has banned LTTE but allow its fronts to influence foreign MPs are violating the rights of the citizens of these countries. British politicians are voted to represent the British people not citizens of foreign nations.<\/p>\n

Here are a number of events that questions the policy of the British Government. <\/strong><\/p>\n