FBI Justifies Sri Lanka war on Terror

The LTTE’s main source of recruitment has been conscription and abduction of women & children.

 

The whole world knows how the LTTE managed to survive the last 30 years. I list below just a fraction of them for the benefit of those who do not know.

 

Out of Home

 

Making money by stooping down the most immoral activates such as drug trafficking, human smuggling & arms trafficking by sea for various terrorist groups in the world

 

Collecting funds by extortion from the Tamil  Diaspora threatening them of harm and torture to their family members in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Sri Lanka

 

Abduction & detention of Tamils visiting the North of Sri Lanka form oversees until a ransom is paid in Europe to the ETTE agents for their release.

 

Successfully built a network of fulltime LTTE agents in the western countries to carry out all of the above activities to make the LTTE financially stronger.

 

The LTTE purposefully allowed these agents to swindle collections as long as they meet the stipulated income targets.      

 

 At Home

 

Forceful conscription and engagement of children as little as 11 year olds in war. This is the way the LTTE poisons the minds of immature kids. The LTTE has done this for the last thirty years. Many leaders of the LTTE today are the ones grown up with the LTTE for the last 25 to 30 years from the childhood.

 

Forceful conscription of women and engagement of them in the battle field. Women are generally considered underprivileged in the orthodox male dominant Asian society. Therefore they are easy to be trained to accept things without questioning. Especially when they are helpless and under custody.

 

Use of civilian as shield. This has been seen in the entire history of the LTTE in every combat operation they faced. When civilians refuse to bear guns and fight, the LTTE herd them at gun point from place to place simply for the cover of the fighters.

 

Always kept the handful of leaders well protected in underground bunkers away form the battle field leaving the women & children to die for them. Since the LTTE ideology does not hold any ground amongst the majority of Tamils in Sri Lanka ,  This was deliberately done to ensure the safety of the  leaders who should be there  for further conscription, abduction & brainwashing  of women & children

 

With millions of $ colleted through the front organizations and agents every month, the LTTE never had financial issues to acquire the latest technology in warfare. However, right from the beginning LTTE never had managed to build a human force willing & strong to face an advancing army.

 

If 10% of the Tamils live in Sri Lanka believe and trust the LTTE, They have had enough man power to fight the SLA.

 

René,

Hope this text by Mr. Satchi Sithanandan, a SL Tamil living in Frankfurt will give some insight.

"Thirty-one years ago, a 20-year old Valvettiturai smuggler apprentice executed Mayor Alfred Duryappah on the grounds of the historic Varatharajah Perumal Temple, Ponnalai on the western seaboard of the Jaffna peninsula. He was a peoples-friendly, down to earth man who had helped to modernize the City of Jaffna and improve its amenities as never ever before. He was, however, hated by the two Tamil political parties, the Federal and the Tamil Congress especially the former. The popularity of Mayor Duryappah and his election as Member of Parliament from the prestigious Jaffna City electorate were major contributory factors. As for the Tamil and Muslim people, his assassination was a major loss, a cruel reality that kept repeating through the years and the killers came from the same group of smuggler bandits who called themselves freedom fighters. The shot that was fired at Ponnalai’s sacred precincts now reverberates continuously with deadly consequences throughout the country and there seems no end to it.On that dreadful day with this tragic and meaningless killing of a good man, the Valvettiturai smuggler gang seeded terrorism in Sri Lanka."

Thanks for a good and timely post Bimsara.

One thing to add about the Muslim (Moore) community of the East, who have been living in refugee camps for over 20 years.
"Thease victims of the LTTE are still living in refugee camps for the past 20 years without a way of returning to their villages due to LTTE threts."

They have been resettled mostly after the Government took control of the East. Anyone who thinks a responsible government had no right to fight a Terrorist outfit which made these people homeless, and give them their homes back - should be totally insane.

Here is some insight from a foreign individual - martien van asseldonk

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24929164@N06/3028239583/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24929164@N06/3033985991/

Here are some other interesting facts about Sri Lanka

1. Although Tamil citizens make up only 12% of Sri Lanka’s population - 30% of Sri Lanka’s elected MPs are from a Tamil speaking community and 18% are directly Northern Tamils.

2. The religious, cultural and historical festivals of all communities in Sri Lanka are national holidays. This includes Christmas and Muslim festivals, religions practised by only 6% of the population.

3. Both Sinhala and Tamil are official languages of the State. All road signage, official documentation, transport and public as well as private facilities are found in fact in the three languages of English, Sinhala and Tamil. It is mandatory to study all languages in school (where facilities are available) and all new public servants must sit a mandatory exam in either Sinhala or Tamil (whichever language which is NOT their mother tongue).

4. Sri Lanka’s capital and largest city Colombo is only 40% Sinhalese - 60% are from Tamil speaking communities and 40% are exclusively Northern or Indian Tamils.

5. The Govt. has made a public apology for all the riots of the past and for errors of the state in creating the problem.

6. Sri Lanka has had top politicians from the Tamil community, inc. former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgama and highways Minister Jeyeraj, both who were ironically assasinated by the LTTE.

7. Even after the conflict flared up in 2006 - following 6000 violations of the Ceasefire Agreement by the LTTE and only about 600 by the Govt. of Sri Lanka (recorded by the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission), an attempted assassination of the Army General by a PREGNANT Suicide Bomber and following a series of bomb attacks in Colombo and outside - the Sri Lankan govt. continued to provide gestures of goodwill to the LTTE to come to the negotiating table. This includes continuing their policy of attending to the health needs of LTTE leaders by flying them down to the best hospitals in Colombo for any treatments. Gratitude was often expressed through another bomb.

8. Both of Prabhakaran’s children were educated in State schools at the expense of Sri Lankan tax payers, whose own children had to be victims of bombings, etc. across the country. The Sri Lankan govt. held special exams for Prabhakaran’s children to sit for the O Levels and A Levels separately and enrolled them into State University. When security risks were feared, the Sri Lankan govt. also assisted and sponsored the children to travel to foreign universities for education. The eldest son, Charles Anthony, returned to Sri Lanka and started to attack the very citizens whose tax money and goodwill paid for his education and foreign travels, with the airplanes that the LTTE managed to acquire during the CeaseFire Agreement.

9. The recent restrictive access to aid agencies in the displacement camps or concentration camps (whatever one may call it), is only a restriction on vehicle usage within the camps and not any other aspect of their operation. This restriction o

johnfromcentral (not verified),

Exellent Write up. The facts presented worth a separate story. Please do publish.

Was this where the virus of terrorism was born and spread?

Spot on, René. Things are always not the way they look.

.Agent.