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Questions raised on Tamil organization in Canada
A former member of a Canadian Tamil organization namely the National Council of Canadian Tamils (NCCT) described as "a peaceful separatist group" by the Ontario Progressive Conservatives is revealed to have attended a weapons training session with the LTTE in Sri Lanka in 2003.
A photograph of the training session, used by U.S. authorities to convict a Toronto man who tried to buy arms for the Tigers in 2006, raises new questions about the NCCT, a group linked to a Tory candidate from the Toronto area, The Globe and Mail revealed.
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A man shown in the weapons-training photo, Thiva Paramsothy, won a seat on the NCCT in an election last June but has since stepped down. The election was supervised by Shan Thayaparan, who was recently named the PC candidate for Markham-Unionville.
Two Tiger fighters in striped camouflage, along with Paramsothy and his rifle-toting Toronto friend, Satha Sarachandran, are clearly visible in U.S. Government Exhibit F2, a photograph used by American prosecutors to send Sarachandran to prison for 26 years in early 2010.
Sarachandran, a one-time national president of the Canadian Tamil Students Association, had travelled to New York with three other men in August of 2006 in a bid to buy about $1-million worth of anti-aircraft missiles and AK-47 assault rifles to be sent to the LTTE in Sri Lanka. The arms dealers he met turned out to be undercover FBI agents, who had conducted a joint investigation with the RCMP.
At the time of his friend's arrest, Paramsothy, a youth worker in Toronto's Tamil community, told The Globe and Mail, "My understanding is he got mixed up with the wrong people at the wrong time."
Paramsothy and Sarachandran had travelled to Sri Lanka in 2003, during the ceasefire, and attended a LTTE shooting range together.
Asked Wednesday about the weapons training, Paramsothy, who is in his early 30s, said he and his friend were among young Tamils from around the world who used the ceasefire as a chance to return to Sri Lanka and learn "what the struggle is about."
Paramsothy, volunteer chairman of the Canadian Tamil Youth Development Centre (CanTYD), described the trip as "a journey ... to go back home and see the country where my parents were born, and experience it," he said.
The NCCT was formed in the wake of the LTTE's defeat in May of 2009. The new body was steered by Nehru Gunaratnam, a former spokesman from the World Tamil Movement, which the federal government banned as a Tiger front in 2008. The Tigers were outlawed in 2006, and the World Tamil Movement's offices were raided by the RCMP shortly after that.