LTTE let loose campaign against BBC

LTTE’s councillor Sathyanesan too put under pressure:

R. Sri Lankan in London

LONDON: The LTTE international network has let loose a campaign against the BBC for broadcasting news about LTTE credit card fraud in the UK. Quoting LTTE’s S. Thamilchelvan’s statement, LTTE websites have published news that the expatriate Tamils in the UK are protesting in large numbers against the BBC.

How the LTTE websites came to know large numbers of Tamils are protesting against BBC indicates carefully organised campaign carried out by the LTTE.

The LTTE media too attacked the first Secretary of the Sri Lanka High Commission Maxwell Kegal for revealing facts about the LTTE credit card fraud. Maxwell Kegal is a respectable official in the Sri Lankan High Commission. He belongs to the Colombo based minority Burger community.

Anyone interacting with him will understand his sentiments on the ethnic problem as his community too suffered when large numbers of Burger community was repatriated to Australia in the 1960’s.

Maxwell Kegal was candid in his comments in disclosing LTTE involvement in Credit Card fraud. It is knowledge that LTTE took comfort when British authorities did not take matters seriously until recently despite being proscribed under the Terrorism Act. There is ample evidence of LTTE involvement in credit card fraud to the extent even the police arresting persons and subsequently releasing them for unknown reasons.

There are petrol station managers who will confirm confidentially about the LTTE fraud. What LTTE is trying to do is to use its terror dictates to make the Tamils maintain silence on this issue. Unfortunately, the situation is fast changing and people are now willing to speak out about the LTTE’s nefarious activities.

The BBC gave a fair opportunity for the LTTE when they interviewed Councillor Paul Sathyanesan who is said to be in the payroll of the LTTE. He went on to say in the interview, the violent campaign of the LTTE as a holy struggle.

Councillor Sathyanesan who came under media criticism over his misleading conduct was a former employee of British Refugee Council (BRC) and had to leave the organisation following a scandalous incident involving a female member of staff.

Questions are being asked how an unemployed man for several years since his removal from BRC is able to survive with the meagre allowance he receives for serving as a Councillor in London Borough of Newham.

Councillor Sathiyanesan takes pride that he is an ardent advocate to curb gangster violence in the UK. Whilst taking this stance he will also not resist attending funerals of gang members killed in violent incidents and make funeral orations praising the gangsters. Fellow Councillor Omena Gangadharan is an outspoken critic of Councillor Sathyanesan’s conduct and will give good account of Sathyanesan’s behaviour.

Paul Sathyanesan’s comments in the BBC has earned him bad name within the peace loving Tamil people in the UK. Some say he is misusing his position as Councillor to glorify a terrorist organisation proscribed under the Terrorism Act in the UK.