LTTE could regroup: Ranil to face the reality

Sri Lanka’s new government today warned that there is a real danger that the LTTE could regroup and wage another war for an independent Tamil homeland, six years after they were militarily defeated. Earlier pro- LTTE Ranil pretend that no threat from LTTE Tamil terrorists and released hundreds of LTTE terrorists from prisons and dismantled army defense lines and withdraw security installations from North and East two provinces.

Deputy Foreign Minister Ajith Perera said LTTE’s front organisations operate businesses overseas to generate funds in an attempt to revive the outfit. “Their front organisations operate businesses abroad, they run petrol stations, supermarkets and have shipping companies,” Perera said.

“Even though they have been defeated on the ground, there is a real danger of their trying to regroup,” he said.

His comments came after the Sri Lankan government pushed the European Union to again blacklist the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Perera said the EU last week agreed to maintain the ban on the LTTE, despite an earlier European court decision to lift some sanctions.

In October last year, the EU on procedural grounds had lifted the ban on the LTTE allowing the Sri Lankan government to make fresh submissions on it.

“The government had to make submissions to convince and enlighten the European General Council on the threats that the LTTE has imposed to both world peace as well as in Sri Lanka due to the revoke of the ban,” he said.

Sri Lanka has previously accused the LTTE of generating money abroad through extortion to finance their campaign for an independent homeland in the island’s northeast.

In 2009, government forces defeated the Tamil terrorists in a military campaign in May 2009.

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