Sri Lanka calls on West to crack down on Tiger funding
Prime Minister DM Jayaratne yesterday urged Western nations to crack
down on Tamils using their soil to revive the LTTE movement that was
crushed last year.
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Prime Minister
D. M. Jayaratne |
Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne said some of the 1.5 million ethnic
Tamils living abroad were planning to form a movement to carry on the
separatist cause to carve out an independent homeland for their
community in Sri Lanka.
“The West is not doing enough to stop them from using their soil to
agitate against us,” Jayaratne told the Foreign Correspondents’
Association of Sri Lanka at a meeting in Colombo.
He said Tiger sympathisers abroad had organised a three-day
fund-raiser in Switzerland later this month from May 17 and expatriate
Tamils were expected to attend. He gave no further details about the
meeting.
“We don’t allow people to use our soil against another country,”
Jayaratne said.
“I believe the West is not doing enough to crack down against
anti-Sri Lankan activities. They must do more.”
Last May, LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed ending a
37-year separatist war. Jayaratne also said emergency regulations, that
have been in place since 1983, will be gradually scaled back in the
coming months as the security situation had improved after the defeat of
the terrorists. However, he added that Tamils living abroad were
planning to resurrect the LTTE and could be trying to activate dormant
militants within the island. May 7, 2010 AFP
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