Canadian non-profit Group World Tamil Movement raised millions for Tamil Tigers

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Barry Artiste. Now Public Contributor

A group based on humanitarian purposes, much like the Khadrs, and other groups who profess peace and love, with bombs and bullets.

Thank Christ our Conservative Canadian Government is showing Balls, the previous Liberal Government failed to show time and time again, in what must had been perceived by the Liberals of not wanting to lose the ethnic vote and give group hugs to terrorist groups who would Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink as the it seems these groups have been operating in Canada far too long.

Let’s hope this will be more good news, as Canada cannot afford to be seen as a haven for terrorists. Terrorists, who from the safety of Canadian citizenship and in Canada know Bullets from 10,000 miles away, do not have the range to take them out over here, but their terrorist bent over here has dire consequences to those innocents over there.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=732309

Toronto non-profit raised millions for Tamil Tigers

Stewart Bell, National Post

Published: Monday, August 18, 2008

TORONTO -- A Toronto non-profit group wired more than $3-million to overseas bank accounts, some of them linked to the Tamil Tigers, before it was shut down by the government in June for alleged terrorist financing, says an RCMP report released yesterday.

The report, marked "Secret" but unsealed by order of a Federal Court judge, provides the first detailed look at the banking activities of the World Tamil Movement (WTM), a Toronto-based group accused of bankrolling Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers guerrillas.

Most of the money, $1.9-million, went to an account at the Bumiputra Commerce Bank in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that the RCMP report says "is utilized as a vehicle to forward money to the LTTE [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam] from Canada.

" The 83-page financial report is the fruit of two years of analysis of banking records seized by Canadian anti-terrorism police who are investigating a financial network run by supporters of the Tamil Tigers that allegedly raised money in Canada to buy arms for the guerrillas.

"The bank records seized ... demonstrate that the World Tamil Movement has developed an elaborate machine like entity that moves throughout the Greater Toronto Area collecting funds with extreme proficiency," the police report says.

Stockwell Day, the Public Safety Minister, announced on June 16 that his government had added the WTM to Ottawa's official list of terrorist groups, alongside the likes of Al-Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah.

The WTM is the first Canadian community group to be listed.