Tigers engaged in ‘aerial’ propaganda

The LTTE has begun using aircraft for propaganda. It indulged in what might be described as “aerial” propaganda against Sri Lanka during a Sri Lanka- Pakistan cricket match and the Sri Lankan festival in Toronto recently.

The Sri Lankan Consul General in Toronto, Bandula Jayasekara, told Express over the phone on Monday that a plane displaying an anti-Sri Lanka propaganda banner circled over the venue of the Sri Lanka festival on September 21 and the Sri Lanka-Pakistan 20/20 cricket match. It circled for an hour on each occasion.

The LTTE in Canada had spent nearly 50,000 Canadian dollars on both occasions to hire the plane, Jayasekara said.

The envoy said that the money had been collected from “poor and innocent” Canadian Tamils.

“If the LTTE were the real saviours of the Tamils they could have easily spent the 50,000 Canadian dollars on the poor,” he said.

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