Tamil expats take LTTE's henchmen to task

Tamil expats take LTTE's henchmen to task

by Ananth Palakidnar

Plans for a 'Transnational State' by the now defunct LTTE - their henchmen such as Kumaran Pathmanathan and V. Rudrakumar came under severe criticism by a majority of Sri Lankan Tamil expatriates according to the DAN (Dish Asia Network) TV station based in Paris. The Chairman of DAN S.S. Kuganathan told the Sunday Observer that a survey was conducted by his television on the collapse of the LTTE and the plans by the outfit's henchmen to create a 'Transnational State' was conducted in Europe and the Middle East last week among Tamil expatriates.

More than ninety percent of the DAN viewers who had participated in the survey and expressed their views had severely criticised the LTTE and the future plans of its henchmen to create a 'Transnational State', according to Kuganathan. "We first broadcast Kumaran Pathmanathan's announcement of his 'Transnational State' and invited the viewers to comment on it.

The viewers castigated Kumaran Pathmanathan saying to leave their people to live in peace and to get lost instead of meddling with the lives of innocent civilians in the North and East,"Kuganathan said. One of the viewers said that the expatriate Tamils had been misled by the LTTE and its stooges for decades and that their sole motive was collecting money and nothing else. The expatriates said that the need of the hour for their kith and kin is the resettlement and peaceful living in their original places.

The expatriates also expressed their support to the initiatives taken by the Government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa in rebuilding the war-torn North.

Another viewer said that by carrying out a separatist war in Sri Lanka the LTTE had shattered the lives of a countless number of Tamils and now by attempting to continue with their activities in exile the outfit's henchmen were trying to make the lives of the expatriates miserable abroad, Kuganathan said.