LTTE exporting terrorism for profit

Why Bruce Fein has come forward to deproscribe LTTE in US? - Hemantha Warnakulasuriya

A letter written by Hemantha Warnakulasuriya, a President’s Counsel has posed pertinent questions to Bruce Fein, the US Attorney said to be representing the Tamils For Justice. Given below is the full text of the letter sent by Hemantha Warnakulasuriya to Bruce

Hemantha Warnakulasuriya

Fein: June 17, 2008

Bruce Fein Esqr,

Attorney

Tamils for Justice

USA

Via email

[email protected]

Dear Mr Attorney,

I read with interest your letter, dated 07.06.2008 and addressed to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Defence Minister and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa under the title ‘Bruce Fein and Tamils for Justice. You have been mentally disturbed when the website of the Sri Lanka Defence Ministry called you ‘A Carrion Bird of LTTE Terrorism’.

“Is Bruce Fein a Carrion Bird of LTTE Terrorism?”

I regret the fact that being called a “carrion bird of LTTE terrorism” has caused you much pain. You have given gratuitous advice to the recipients that they must consider discharging the Intelligence Unit and save the Ministry a treasure trove of money, as there is no investigation necessary about you as everything about you is disclosed on the website free of charge.

I logged on to your website and found that one of the onerous tasks entrusted to you was to de-proscribe the LTTE. I believe, as an attorney, that you have been instructed by the LTTE to make representation on behalf of them and on behalf of Prabhakaran. I believe you are not only acting upon instructions, but getting a large fee for doing a professional job.

If you deny the fact that you have been retained by the LTTE, then you may be in violation of the code of ethics, as you are appearing for a client without proper instructions. Therefore, I believe it is a fair call to say that you are a ‘carrion bird of LTTE terrorism’. As you know, the LTTE has been proscribed by the US and the FBI has classified it as the most ruthless terrorist organisation in the world. Thus, you have the task of transforming the most ruthless killer, a megalomaniac and a murderer of Tamils, women and children, into a Mahatma Gandhi, or an apostle of peace. Therefore, the political reference to you has not done any disfavour in the eyes of the LTTE, as they would have by now earned the wrath of all peace loving people in the world.

LTTE child soldiers. File photo

Therefore, you could, without much difficulty request for an enhancement of your fee, which the Tamils for Justice could pay on behalf of the LTTE. If, as you claim, the TFJ doesn’t represent the LTTE and neither receives or sends funds to the LTTE, how could you appear on behalf of a terrorist organisation and a Mono Ethnic Dictator and strive to remove the proscription, unless you are advised by the very organisation that is proscribed, as no one knows whether the LTTE is enjoying the proscription to keep on killing innocent civilians, as no terrorist organisation is bound by any international law, ethics or morality. They may be enjoying the proscription which permits them to kill and watch the cry of anguish and pain of the civilians from a vantage point. I cannot think of any phrase that could describe Prabhakaran’s pleasure at these killing. Therefore, they may not want the proscription lifted.

Naturally, any reasonable man could come to a just and fair conclusion, that in spite of the several denials made by you and by your cohorts, you are representing a terrorist outfit which has turned terrorism into an industry-enterprise and which is now using its methods and knowledge to export terrorism for profit. As the perfection of the suicide kit and the method used to brainwash the suicide bombers has been used by all other terrorist organisation like the Al Qaeda and Hamas.

To de-proscribe the LTTE would effectually mean painting the father figure of Terrorism, Prabhakaran lily white and would show the Al Qaeda and other terrorist outfits how to kill and earn the respect of the West.

Are Tamils outside the law in Sri Lanka?

In the third paragraph of your letter, you counter the belief that the Tamils are not outside the law in Sri Lanka, and to further augment the argument that the Tamils are outside Sri Lankan law, you have referred to Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Terrorism Act.

Prevention of Terrorism Act

Sri Lanka is one of the first countries in the Asian region that saw the terrorist movement emerging, and during that time the legislator, in his wisdom and in order to protect the unity of Sri Lanka, established the Prevention of Terrorism Act.

At that time, most Sri Lankan Tamils and some Sinhalese took offence to the so-called Draconian nature of these laws; the US, UK and even the Indian Government impressed upon the Sri Lankan Government to remove these laws from the Statute books.

During that time, the Indians and all the other Western countries were fooled by the LTTE to make believe that they were a force fighting for the liberation of their people from the oppressive Sinhala Government.

Unfortunately, when the problems come to one’s doorstep, it is a common human trait for one to forget the advice and follow the same laws which were considered deterrent.

After 9-11, the US implemented similar laws; later, the UK and even the Indian Government followed suit. In fact, the very passage you quote from the Prevention of Terrorism laws were not intended to incarcerate any framed Tamils, who had rarely demonstrated using peaceful means, but against the Sinhalese, who would by word of mouth extol the virtue of racism and coerce the very minor percentage of radical Sinhalese Buddhists to commit communal disharmony. It punishes persons who cause communal disharmony.

To be continued