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Time
to Act:
The LTTE, its Front Organizations, and the
Challenge to Europe
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By
Ravinatha P. Aryasinha
Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the EU,
Belgium and Luxembourg
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8. Danger of not taking
action
Sri Lanka’s efforts to defeat terrorism
could be wasted
At a time Sri Lanka is engaged in the
difficult task of putting an end to
terrorism in the North of the country, it is
vital to also end the capacity of the LTTE
and its front organizations to raise funds
and engage in propaganda in western
countries. Else the sacrifices being made on
the ground would be wasted and the capacity
to sustain the conflict will be revived.
No community insulated from the LTTE and its
Front Organization activity
Countries of high intensity LTTE activities
– their law enforcement and monitoring
agencies, need to interdict the networks of
the LTTE and its front organizations. They
should do so not merely in terms of its
international obligations to help in the
fight against terrorism wherever it takes
place, but also because today these
terrorist front organizations are getting
engrained into and are exploiting the body
politic of many of these countries, abusing
their grant of asylum and corrupting and
criminalizing their respective societies.
Ramifications abroad of an LTTE defeat in
Sri Lanka
Abroad, the situation is likely to get worse
in a scenario where the conventional
fighting capacity of the LTTE is defeated.
In such a case, the pressure on the diaspora
would be intensified by the LTTE. Networked
and trained as they are, in order to
survive, members of the LTTE are likely to
be forced into engaging/prolonging
clandestine businesses or engage in criminal
activities as mercenaries.
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