When a terrorist organization has its international head office openly functioning from London & when its Government did pittance about it for decades what are we to think. When a terrorist organization is able to generate 40% of its foreign funds from UK, what are we to think? When UK MPs gather to bring endless proposals against a democratically elected Government citing international laws related to human rights, war crimes etc…we can simply ask what was the world doing or thinking when the LTTE were killing people, destroying property & bringing chaos?

1. Why are UK MPs supporting LTTE terrorism?
When a terrorist organization has its international head office openly functioning
from London & when its Government did pittance about it for decades what are
we to think. When a terrorist organization is able to generate 40% of its foreign
funds from UK, what are we to think? When UK MPs gather to bring endless
proposals against a democratically elected Government citing international laws
related to human rights, war crimes etc…we can simply ask what was the world
doing or thinking when the LTTE were killing people, destroying property &
bringing chaos?
The UK may have proscribed the LTTE in 2001 but LTTE was sharp enough to
quickly change the names of their front organizations & most of these have been
successful at roping in foreign MPs & foreign leaders bold enough to praise the
LTTE despite its country banning the LTTE. Excuse given by western police is
that they are preoccupied handling “Islamic terrorism” – given that terrorism is
terrorism & the LTTE has been proscribed since 2001, the UK needs to wake up
to this fact & seriously address its lethargy to treat all terrorists alike because
LTTE has not feared to kill foreigners & now that LTTE is operating on foreign
soil it is foreign locations that are likely to be affected & with LTTE having
commercial links with other terrorist groups the runaway LTTE cadres now living
in foreign shores will be perfect teachers for suicide missions & other clandestine
operations abroad.
The facts
The British Government banned the LTTE alongside 21 other terrorist
organizations on February 28, 2000. When UK banned the LTTE in 2000 under
its terrorism act several MPs raised their objections. MPs Robert Evans, Linda
Perham, Andrew Dismore, Dr. Jenny Tong, Jeremy Corbyn, John MacDonald,
Andy Love. Similarly, Hon Andrew Love (Labour), Hon Simon Hughes (Lib
Dem), Hon Jeremy Corbyn (Lab), Hon John McDonnell (Lab), Hon Paul Burstow
(Lib Dem), Hon Susan Kramer (Lib Dem), Hon Andrew Dismore (Lab), Hon
Andrew Pelling (Independent), Hon Lee Scott (Conservative), Rt. Hon Keith Vaz
(Lab) and the Hon Minister Bill Rammell (Lab) who joined to sing hossanahs for
the LTTE.
To this list of pro-LTTE supporters we must also include MPs – Gavin Barwell,
Tom Brake, James Brokenshire, David Burrowes, Edward Davey, Duncan Smith,
Barry Gardiner, Zac Goldsmith, Robert, Halfon, Stephen Hammond, Nick Hurd,
Joseph Johnson, Sadiq Khan, Siobhain McDonagh, Bob Neill, Richard Ottoway,
Stephen Pound, Andrew Rosindell, Sarah Teather, Gareth Thomas, Stephen
Timms, Theresa Villiers, Angela Watkinson, Angus Robertson, Dianne Abbot,

2. Jon Trickett, Mark Hendrik, Philip Davies, Peter Bottomley, David Miliband, Stella
Creasy & John Mann,
Despite UK ban LTTE fundraising continues
LTTE’s defacto headquarters was in London masquerading under the name
“British Tamil Association” with debit accounts in Natwest Bank.
The LTTE holds 2 events each year in London despite the UK & EU banning
LTTE. The 1st event is in July & held in Hyde Park where a 20ft cut out of
Prabakaran is on a stage organized by the Tamil Youth Organization. UK police
had even given permission to hold the rally.
November for Prabakaran’s 50th birthday 5000 Tamils gathered in Wembley
Arena with entrance fee £35 per head. The principal speaker was himself a UK
citizen but LTTE theoretician – Anton Balasingham. UK has never questioned
Balasingham’s connections with UK banned LTTE.
White Pigeon is a LTTE front organization being investigated by the UK Charity
Commission having transferred approx £500,000 from NatWestBank to the
Bumiputhra Commerce Bank in Kuala Lumpur to the account of the World Tamil
Relief Fund to purchase arms for the LTTE.
These are the other LTTE front organizations –
• London Tamil Manram
• Tamil Co-ordinating Committee
• Eelam Solidarity Campaign
• Tamil Information Centre, Thamil House, 720 Romford Road, London E12
• Tamil Rehabilitation organization (TRO) , 79 Hoe Street, Walthamstow
• International Federation of Tamils, 17, Birchiew Close, Yateley
• World Saiva Council.
The International Federation of Tamils in Surrey runs the Kalathil a well known
Tamil journal with wide distribution. It also publishes booklets & pamphlets to
gain international support. Other publications include –
• Viduthalai Puligal, - Tamil Times Tamil Times Ltd. P O Box 121, Sutton
Surrey,
• Tamil Nation, P O Box 373, Croydon, Surrey

3. • Network , The International Federation of Tamils 17, Birchview close
• Thamilan, 19, Undine Street, London SW 17 8PP, United Kingdom.
• There is also a Tamil Information Center which has a unit called the Tamil
Eelam British Branch,
If we recollect in 2006, a British NHS GP – Dr. Murugesu Vineyagamoorthy & his
wife Dr. Pushpam were arrested in New York by the FBI for attempting to bribe a
US Justice Dept official with 1m to remove LTTE from the US list of banned
terrorist organizations. Leaving aside the arrest the offer of USD1m is a good eye
opener as to how the LTTE operates & how big the monetary transactions are for
western bias. Human Rights Watch in a study documented that individual
families & businesses had to pay money ranging from £2000 to £100,000. If
Tamils do not agree they would be killed or their next of kin in Sri Lanka would be
abducted & killed. That was what happened to Subramaniuam Sivakumar on
January 5th, 2006 who ran a grocery shop in North West London. UK police
discovered journal entries with regular payments to “LTTE boys”. Annual
remittances from the UK alone both from extortion and their business activities
was in the range of £10 million.
Tamil Gang violence
Incidents involving Tamil gangs has surged with 16 such killings recorded in
2005. Prabakaran’s son Charles Anthony had been a student at the University of
Belfast entry secured with the assistance of IRA’s Martin McGuinness on the
grounds that it was a “confidence building measure”. Many of the international
credit card scams are spearheading by the LTTE. Human smuggling &
international narcotics is part & parcel of LTTE’s other crime syndicate. With all
nations aware of these why have they kept silent or how much has it kept to
maintain the silence is a good question we need to ask.
UK MPs & Councillors supporting LTTE
Harrow Councillor Thaya Idaikaddar delivered a homily on 25 July 2006 at Hyde
Park honoring the LTTE. While fellow Harrow Councillor Shashikala & Eliza
Packiadevi Mann from Southwark had obtained permission for the 2006 Hyde
Park rally from the Royal Parks Police. These councilors formed the British Tamil
Councillors & Associates.
Mr Idaikaddar is closely associated with DFID Minister Gareth Thomas who
usually is an active participant in these events in his electorate. Mr Robert Evans
-- another Labour member who is a member of the European Parliament (PSE
group) -- is another active supporter.

4. The LTTE has gained control of the Hindu temples which also brings large
volumes of money – Sivayogam Hindu temple in Tooting is a good example. This
very temple had sent container loads of “tsunami relief in 2004” inside kitchen
pots were ball bearings & other items for assembling explosives. This temple
also sponsored the construction of a boat yard in Sampoor which was used for
LTTE sea tigers.
In August 2005 the UK Charity Commission did delist the Tamil Rehabilitation
Organization (British charity number 1010029) from its list of charities since the
TRO had links with the LTTE. The TRO response was to register itself under the
International Tamil Rehabilitation Organization as a company with Companies
House UK. The TRO had supposedly collected over Rs.56m to construct over
600 tsunami houses in the North & East. The TRO has since 1995 sent 3m
pounds from UK to the LTTE, tax free under the guise of “rehabilitation”.
Incidentally, the staff of TRO are paid through the Tamil Housing Association
which means British tax payers were paying for salaries of terrorists! Not paying
value added tax means defrauding the British treasury, Her Majesty’s Inland
Revenue & Her Majesty’s Customs & Excise – why was action not taken when
authorities were aware of these irregularities?
Similarly, the Tamil Housing Association has raised millions of pounds through
British local bodies on account of them being registered charity & a Housing
Association in the UK. The other front organization the Tamil Refugee Action
Group was able to secure a British National Lottery grant of £78,450 pounds in
1998. While the Tamil Refugee Education & Training Center also obtained a
National Lottery grant. of £155,484 pounds in 1999 covering a 3 year period.
InMay 2007, UK MP for Edmonton Andy Love declared open the LTTE’s new
TV station Tharisanam in Southgate, London following the previous
channel Tamil Television Network based in France being shut by the
French authorities.
Without a doubt the LTTE has been comfortably existing in UK. The Tamil
Diaspora which has been spearheading LTTE beyond Sri Lanka on foreign
shores enjoy promoting themselves as leaders of various groups & canvassing
amongst foreign MPs & foreign Government bodies as well as private
establishments & UN & NGOs. Their ability to influence was such that they even
held meetings in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. A good example is
Arunachalam Chrishanthakumar alias AC Shanthan (Head of the United Tamil
Organization based in South London & later the British Tamil Association)
holding regular meetings with the UK Special Branch & purchasing electrical
components for remote controlled bombs & eventually being convicted of aiding
the LTTE. The Special Branch had not arrested Shanthan in 2004 despite their
awareness that he had bought items including handcuffs & boots for the LTTE
police force! Shanthan was never convicted for lack of evidence & neither was
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5. Jagatheeswaran M & his brother both charged with purchasing equipment for the
LTTE.
In a country that has declared the LTTE as a terrorist organization – can the
LTTE be allowed to hold demonstrations? Demonstrations are part of
democracy but how can demonstrators holding LTTE flags chanting & supporting
the LTTE be allowed to disturb & disrupt the lives of the British public? Despite
raising this at the Parliament debate why was no explanation called from MPs
Jeremy Corbyn & MP Simon Hughes for supporting pro-LTTE protests? In fact
Simon Hughes pointed out that he knew that permission was granted 4 weeks in
advance which next questions are British authorities aware that the LTTE is a
banned terrorist entity.
In 1995 permission was granted for an assembly of 100 but more than 8000
gathered infront of UK Premiers office claiming they were on behalf of the 65
Tamil community organizations in the UK & called upon the UK Govt to condemn
Sri Lanka’s violations of humanitarian law & military operations.
British MPs supporting LTTE terrorism
41 British MPs have written to UK Premier David Cameron urging for UK to
support calls for an independent international inquiry into allegations of war
crimes in Sri Lanka. When the LTTE has been banned in the UK since 2000
why has no UK MP called for its Government to look into why UK
authorities have allowed the LTTE to prevail & why some UK MPs have
even spoken atop pro-LTTE stages & even had links with LTTE foreign
leaders? If there are some MPs siding with the LTTE surely there must be other
MPs that have not been bought by pro-LTTE connections? LTTE being a terrorist
organization why is it that it is always the Sri Lankan Government that is being
penalized & none of LTTE terror has even been treated in the same manner that
foreign governments go after Islamic terrorists?
How come the voices of Dr. Kim Howells who said that the LTTE’s violent acts
are well documented, that it has been proscribed since 2000 & that the LTTE’s
involvement in killings, torture, detention of civilians & denial of freedom of
speech is a reality is never heard by UK Parliament or the British public? Dr.
Howells even went on to say that LTTE fund raising in the UK is encouraging war
& not peace. Dr. Howells voice came at a time when the LTTE was involved in
global credit card scams & various other nefarious activities. Only MP Neil
Gerrard & MP Peter Luff, joined in support confirming that money is being raised
in this country which goes to the LTTE. Why has UK Government preferred to
allow British soil to be prostituted to raise funds for a terrorist entity when
terrorism can never be legitimized? MP Peter Luff went on to state that great
danger lies in LTTE’s techniques being used by other terrorist groups & do we
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6. need to remind the world that it was the LTTE that launched the human suicide
bomber & many of the present day suicide attacks are likely to have been carried
out following LTTE training & advice! LTTE has links to terrorist organizations
including the Al Qaeda & even Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination is said to have been
as a result of a foreign contract! The air training capacity of the LTTE was
confirmed to have been obtained by Canadian-trained Tamil engineers as
confirmed by MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown. MP Geoffrey went on to say that
foreign training of LTTE cadres must be stopped & we know how true this is. We
are told that a large number of LTTE cadres managed to flee the country prior to
the fall of the LTTE – these cadres who fled to foreign shores would have
obviously connected with parties that had been instrumental in continuing
terrorism in Sri Lanka & these cadres who would have remained as “refugees”
would naturally be sent back with directive & orders to carry out another stage of
terrorism when the time is right. The Government of Sri Lanka must keep a tab
on these “refugees’ & carry out security checks on them & incorporate them into
the rehabilitation programs forthwith.
So when there are a few UK MPs who present a factual case of LTTE terrorism
to the British parliament why are their voices never heard. MP Peter Luff says
that the LTTE has never been seriously committed to the democratic process &
that Prabakaran was only interested in establishing a one-party independent
Tamil state without democratic elections & said he had reservations about the
LTTE being capable of holding dialogue. Echoing Sri Lankan public’s own
thoughts MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown stressed that no Government can or should
give in to demands of those who would kill & maim innocent civilians. MP Edward
Davey went on to say that most Tamils he had spoken to did not support the
LTTE & many of them had fled the country because of the violence perpetrated
by the LTTE against them & not the Government of Sri Lanka as is widely
publicized.
Yet, despite these sane voices there are prominent UK MPs like Keith Vaz,
Virendra Sharma openly supporting the LTTE & the UK Government doing
nothing despite protests by the Sri Lanka High Commission. The irony is that
Keith Vaz chaired the Home Affairs Select Committee which looked into the UK
counter terrorism laws. Under UK terrorism law the LTTE is banned from raising
funds, holding property or operating in any form, glorifying their activities or
inciting others to support them. Nevertherless, both these MPs accompanied by
MP MP Joan Ryan (Labor) attended the Tamil Remembrance Day alongside
25,000 expatriate Tamils in UK.
Incidentally, Keith Vaz jointly chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils
with Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes. It is not difficult to presume that these
MPs are MPs because of the Tamil votes they obtain for the favors they return!
Perhaps that is why UK’s anti-terrorism police investigated by Keith Vaz should
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7. speak at a rally in which suicide bombers were praised! Keith Vaz whose
Leicester East constituency has 7000 Tamils & these obviously had secured his
entry in to the UK Parliament! Another MP to speak in favor of the LTTE is
Rt.Hon. Douglas Alexander – British Shadow Foreign Secretary. Alexander
speaking to a packed Tamil for Labor event demanded an international inquiry
against the Sri Lankan Government. He also pledged to contact the UK Foreign
Secretary’s office against its decision to deport 50 Tamils to Sri Lanka.
There has to be saner reasons for UK MPs supporting a terrorist organization like
the LTTE & it has to be for more than just votes. Thus Scotland Yard & the HM
Revenue & Customs & all UK tax agencies must investigate. It was Janes
Intelligence that reported that the LTTE raised close to $300m a year. For
records purposes to have the LTTE banned but watch while its proxy fronts in the
form of the World Tamil Forum, the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization, Global
Tamil Forum etc carry out its activities is ridiculous to say the least. Why has
foreign authorities never done anything against people like Rev. Emmanual,
Suren Surendiran, Rudrakumar & a host of others? Is it not this money that is
funding all pro-LTTE propaganda including some made-up drama aired by
Channel 4/BBC titled Killing Fields? Are these funds not paying for foreign
presenters, producers & directors? The British public should now start
demanding for facts & question whether accepting money from a banned terrorist
group does not equate to aiding & abetting terrorism? Perhaps LTTE has
infiltrated into these key British authorities like they did in the foreign
embassies/UN agencies/INGOs & NGOs.
What can we really expect from the British Government or its parliament? The
Telegraph’s exposure on MPs misuse of state funds doesn’t showcase much
integrity & when dwindling voter turn outs means the requirement to court
immigrants it is easy to understand how some of these British MPs are turning
anti-Sri Lankan & pro-LTTE. Though the Third World politicians are often
accused of corruption who would have remotely thought that British MPs would
reimburse for furniture, servicing swimming pool boiler, for food, Christmas tree
decorations, DVD player, bookshelves, bathmats, pet food, repairs to
lawnmower, lavatory brushes & the list goes on & the list gets worse! Tony Blair
put a claim for £7000 just 2 days prior to stepping down as PM & goes to show
that British MPs are sensitive towards money & pro-LTTE campaigners know
perfectly how to toss the carrots.
The UK Government cannot ignore the fact that 40% of LTTE funds came from
UK sources despite LTTE being banned Why is it that the LTTE remains banned
on paper while the LTTE is allowed to carry out a terrorist campaign against a
democratic nation? Why is the LTTE allowed to or be even given permission to
carry out events, gatherings & promotional campaigns? What action has been
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8. taken against MPs that have spoken on LTTE platforms or even accepted
invitations to open pro-LTTE promotional units including television stations?
It is difficult to fathom why a terrorist entity has prevailed for so long when the Al
Qaeda was pursued by Western allies for just killing over 3000 people & even
countries were invaded without any proof of involvement.
The LTTE had prevailed for 3 decades primarily as a result of foreign nations
allowing & watching the LTTE grow from strength to strength.
It was the US that spearheaded a drive to portray Sri Lanka’s Govt as being
responsible for violating international human rights law & practices which evolved
into other western capitals parroting the same & UN & other bodies attempting to
take Sri Lanka to international court totally ignoring all the terrorists acts by the
LTTE over the years. Can there be a saner explanation for why western
governments would chide a democratically elected Government for eliminating a
terrorist movement that struck terror to all the citizens of Sri Lanka while carrying
out various clandestine operations internationally under the very eyes of these
western nations? If international human rights laws are being used to chide Sri
Lanka for annihilating the LTTE why has the west not applied the IHLs against
the LTTE? The general assumption was that all signatories to the covenants of
humanitarian laws would be bound to follow them but the ambiguity lies in
western nations attempting to disregard armed non-state actors who are not
signatories to such covenants nor follow any international laws whatsoever. If the
west treats armed non-state actors by letting them off without putting them on the
dock for years of killing innocent civilians, politicians, suicides & damaging state
& private property is there any need to have international laws in place at all?
Is it because pro-LTTE units have successfully lobbied & won foreign
lawmakers? Is it because pro-LTTE units have put millions towards foreign
election campaigns?
UK MPs supporting call for an international investigations for war crimes
by the Sri Lankan Government.
1. Lee Scott (Chair)
2. Virendra Sharma (Vice Chair)
3. Siobhain McDonagh (Vice Chair)
4. Simon Hughes (Vice Chair)
5. Heidi Alexander
6. Ian Austin
7. Hazel Blears
8. Peter Bottomley
9. Russell Brown
10. David Cairns
11. Martin Caton
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9. 12. Katy Clark
13. Jeremy Corbyn
14. Stella Creasy
15. Jon Cruddas
16. Jim Cunningham
17. John Cryer
18. Jim Dowd
19. Clive Efford
20. Mike Gapes
21. Barry Gardiner
22. Mary Glindon
23. Robert Halfon
24. Tom Harris
25. Margaret Hodge
26. Sharon Hodgson
27. George Howarth
28. David Lammy
29. Andy Love
30. John Mann
31. Stephen McCabe
32. John McDonnell
33. Teresa Pearce
34. Steve Pound
35. Nick Raynsford
36. Chris Ruane=
37. Joan Ruddock
38. Stephen Timms
39. Emily Thornberry
40. Gareth Thomas
41. Keith Vaz
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