Sri Lankan High Commission UK to ensure ban on LTTE as Terrorists

Sri Lanka’s High Commission in London is lobbying the British government vigorously  to keep the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) proscribed as a terrorist organization after a ruling on that the Home Office decision.

Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner Saroja Sirisena reportedly held a Zoom meeting with Fergus Auld, Director South Asian Department of the Foreign Office warning of the supposed dangers of delisting the LTTE, shortly after the judgment by Britain’s Proscribed Organizations Appeal Commission in favour of LTTE Tamil terrorists. .

The day after the meeting, High Commissioner Sirisena wrote to the Secretary to the Home Office saying that the Sri Lankan Government is ready to help the Home Office “with any information pertaining to LTTE activities available to it and the dangers inherent to the international community in de-proscribing the LTTE which had caused much violence here and elsewhere in the world”.

The High Commissioner went on to claim that “delisting the LTTE could cause the revival of divisive activity”.

The High Commissioner’s comments come days after Foreign Ministry statement  saying, “The Government of Sri Lanka will continue to closely monitor the progress of the case in the UK.”

Sri Lanka’s prime minister also called on British authorities to ensure a ban was kept on the organisation, claiming the LTTE was “very active” as a global terrorist organization.

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