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Netherlands to probe LTTE front organizations run private schools

Wed, Oct 5, 2011, 11:49 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Oct 05, The Hague: Ivo Opstelten, the Minister of Security and Justice of the Netherlands government has said that the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) is considering to take action against the Saturday schools run by the front organizations of Tamil Tigers in the country.
A Dutch national police report recently revealed that the front organizations of Sri Lanka's defeated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) operate 21 schools in the country and during the weekend classes the Tamil children are taught materials that glorify the LTTE's armed struggle for a separate homeland in Sri Lanka.
Security Minister Opstelten has told the Dutch MPs that the schools are not part of the state education system, but offer children lessons in Tamil culture out of regular school hours, Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) reported.
The schools are located in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Breda, Eindhoven, Arnhem and Leeuwarden.
The Minister has said that the Public Prosecutor were to bring the issue of closing the schools to the attention of the local authorities concerned when the Dutch Magistrate Court delivers the verdict on the trial of the five Dutch Tamil Tigers accused of extorting money to fund the LTTE war machine in Sri Lanka.
The Minister has said that however acting on a plea from the Christian Democrat party, the NCTV would investigate whether it is feasible to take action sooner, RNW reported.
The LTTE is a banned outfit in the European Union