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Trapped in an illusion...
By Shanika

A few months after exposing the true identities of Meena
Navarangi Krishnamoorthy, Arunachalam Jegatheeswaran and Dr. Parimala Nathan
Sampavi, who tried to camouflage their Tiger stripes with 'diplomatic coats',
military intelligence has unearthed the true face of the Deputy Speaker of the
self-proclaimed 'Trans-national Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE)' - a purely
pro-LTTE front formed by sections of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora forwards
creating Tamil Eelam, a separate State in the North and the East of the country.
The TGTE 'Constitution states': "Whereas the TGTE has guided us
towards a democratic system of government, in order to establish an independent
State of Tamil Eelam based on the principles of peace, non-violence, tolerance,
pluralism, transparency and accountability".
Though it has no recognition locally or internationally, the
TGTE which has wings in the USA, Canada, Norway and the UK, with the US-based
lawyer Visvanathan Rudrakumaran as its chairman, had held global elections among
Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora communities in May 2010 to elect members to the first
Transnational Constituent Assembly of Tamil Eelam, the first step towards the
formation of the TGTE.Puthirasigamani Suganya was elected Deputy Speaker of this
unrecognised pro-LTTE 'government'. The 22-year-old, who is a prominent figure
in Tamil circles in Switzerland, had contested the TGTE election in May 2010
from Berne, Solothurn in Switzerland. She had obtained 1,880 votes. Very few
knew that this young girl had links with the LTTE; it remained a secret until
military intelligence scanned her details in the database of the LTTE about its
membership and also about Tamil youth who were given a brief military training
in the North.
Deeply motivated and sometimes forced to contribute towards the
creation of 'Eelam', Suganya, who was born and bred in Switzerland and resided
in Ostermundi Gen, had participated in a Heroes Day event as a dancer in 2003
during her maiden visit to the North of Sri Lanka.
The second in the family, Sugunya's father was a cook and her
mother a cleaner in Switzerland. She has relatives in Thirunelveli, Jaffna while
close relatives also live in France, Zurich, Switzerland and Canada.
Consent to contribute
With no ability of speaking Tamil, Sugunya, who is fluent in
Dutch, in her membership application to the LTTE's International Co-ordination
Unit, had given her consent to contribute to the LTTE's so-called 'freedom
struggle' during the study period and also to contribute money to the LTTE.
She wanted to serve in the medical unit of the outfit."Our
heroes sacrificed their lives on behalf of us, let us work towards their
effort", she mentioned in the form, which was submitted in August, 2003.She was
among the many youth who returned to Sri Lanka in 2004 to join the Tamil Youth
Organisation (TYO), which was formed by the LTTE to appoint youth leaders to
carry out their propaganda and fund-raising abroad.
Using the ceasefire between the then Sri Lankan Government and
the LTTE, many youth who were studying
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and working abroad arrived in Sri Lanka in 2004 to join the
LTTE to represent the outfit in their countries.
They met the Head of the LTTE's international propaganda unit
Veerakulasingham Manivannan alias Castro who formed the TYO to recruit youth
between the ages of 18 and 30 years.
As the LTTE leader wanted every member of the TYO to be given
weapons training, they underwent military training and were educated on how to
raise funds.
After the training session, they flew back to their countries to
carry out their missions. Like Meena, Dr. Sampavi and Suganya, thousands of
Tamil youth who had never experienced life in the North of Sri Lanka and living
abroad, are still trapped in the illusion created in their minds by LTTE leaders
who tapped their unspoilt hearts to create sympathy over Tamils living in the
North.
The pathetic stories and fake pictures shown to them by the LTTE
about the Sinhalese and the Sri Lankan military made these youth join the LTTE
to "have a homeland for them".
Sri Lanka has a proud and remarkable record in rehabilitating
former LTTE terrorists. Isn't it time to take measures to 'rehabilitate' youth
such as Suganya who were misled by the LTTE and to give them the true picture of
the peaceful Sri Lanka?
Membership forms
Can't those who cry for human rights convince these youth to
join the reconciliation process in a more productive way, to support Tamils in
the North by raising funds instead of pumping more money to the remaining Tiger
front organisations to destabilise the hard-earned peace?
Suganya's hand-written membership application form was among
heaps of LTTE membership forms recovered from a Tiger hideout in Vanni during
the humanitarian operation in 2009.
Though the LTTE remnants try to 'adopt' a political approach to
hide their blood-strained past, these true faces of the members of the TGTE or
pro-LTTE Tamil diaspora exposes their motive to carry forward the LTTE's terror
ideologies.With the repeated exposure of the true identities of the members of
the pro-LTTE diaspora, it clearly shows the TGTE's intention to whitewash the
heinous crimes committed against humanity by the LTTE.
Their hidden agenda to continue to live comfortably in foreign
soils while their people went through nightmarish lives under the LTTE terrorist
are also exposed.
It is time for the international community, who clamour for
'justice' for crimes against humanity and lobbying for human rights, stood
against organisations such as the TGTE which still pose with the Tiger
flag.Peace-loving Sri Lankans including Tamils who experienced the agony of the
three-decades long battle against terrorism have one big question to ask from
the vociferous Human Rights champions such as Amnesty International who proved
their links with pro-LTTE front organisations such as the TGTE and Canadian
Tamil Congress, which was proved its links to the LTTE despite their denial.
"Why do they still promote shadows of LTTE terrorists harbouring separatism,
while people who suffered terror at their doorsteps are trying to stand on their
own feet in a united country?"
Courtesy : Sunday Observer