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 text of the letter sent by Hemantha Warnakulasuriya to Bruce.

Second part of this article was published yesterday

That is why, even now, the government is striving to veto this decision by taking these terrorists away from the Guantanamo Bay to another place where the writ of the Supreme Court does not apply.

Fein, if your government, the most powerful in the world, is still unable to avoid attacks by the terrorists who want to establish a fundamentalist State, taking the world back 2000 years to the middle ages, just imagine the plight of the Sri Lankan Government, which is fighting without any help from powerful countries to eliminate a terrorist group described by no lesser agency than the most renowned investigating agency in the world, the FBI, as the most ruthless terrorist organization in the world, surpassing even the Al Qaeda.

The Law which permits remanding for 18 months with judicial review must be hailed as a humane piece of legislation. As the British introduced the Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code, should we not follow some extraordinary legislation and method followed by your country for the betterment of all and to the detriment of the enemy of democracy and the civilized world, the Terrorist?

The US Government is fighting a war without boundaries against a faceless enemy, which aims to destabilise that civilisation which has made freedom and liberty their main ethical code.

These terrorists want these freedoms crushed and the civilisations reversed to go back to the Middle Ages. I can only have sympathy for the methods used by the US Government. However, I can assure you that if your friends in the TFJ visit a camp in Sri Lanka, they would see that the suspects are in much better conditions, with less isolation and are treated with respect.

With regard to the immunity proceedings you referred to, which are being exploited by the LTTE and other groups that support them, I would like to enlighten you that several policemen who acted with impunity have been punished by either the Supreme Court or High Court. Every single policeman who commits torture is now in double jeopardy: one is in the form of the rights application, the other in the form of indictment filed in the High Court against such policemen.

If interested, I am in a position to give you all the details of the indictments filed against the policemen who violated the laws of the land. So far, no policeman has taken the defence of immunity in any proceedings.

I believe I have answered your allegations that the Government has not prosecuted those responsible for the kidnappings and torture.

The assassination of Tamil Parliamentarians is being investigated and the suspects are now being produced in Court. I refer to the recent assassination of a Tamil parliamentarian, Maheswaran and the allegation that he had been killed by the LTTE. It is a matter that is now being investigated.

You have referred to Louise Arbor, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and three Nobel Peace Prize winners and about the human rights violations in Sri Lanka.

As much as the Human Rights Watch may denounce your country's detentions of the people in Guantanamo Bay and claim that the US Government is violating the rights of these terrorists, the Government of Sri Lanka takes extreme precaution in fighting the most ruthless organization in the world.

For your information, the Government, with great sacrifice, liberated the Eastern Province from the ruthless Tigers and gave the Tamils a chance to elect their own political leaders.

A one-time Tiger protege and child soldier was elected by the people of the Eastern Province. I refrain from taking up the challenge of subjugating Tamils, but I request you to meet Pillaiyan, the Chief Minister of the Eastern Province and ask him who had subjugated the Tamils in the last so many years. All democratic Tamil leaders, beginning with Alfred Thuraiappah and recently those who proposed a peaceful solution, like Dr Neelan Thiruchelvam etc, who opposed Prabhakaran were considered enemies by him and eliminated.

Do the Tamils in Sri Lanka exult living with the Sinhalese in a Unitary State?

You have brought another interesting point, to counter the fact that the Tamils in Sri Lanka exult in living with the Sinhalese in a unitary state and you challenge the Government to have a free and fair referendum on Tamil statehood.

To be continued