Sri Lanka calls on West to crack down on Tiger funding

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.
Prime MinisterD. 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