Tamil Tiger Rebels Training In India: Sri Lanka PM

[Devil Soul]

Tamil Tiger Rebels Training In India: Sri Lanka PM

COLOMBO, March 10, 2011 (AFP) -Remnants of Sri Lanka's defeated Tamil rebels are undergoing military training in India in a bid to revive their separatist campaign at home, the island's prime minister said Thursday.

D.M. Jayaratne said an unknown number of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters were based at secret camps in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

"We have intelligence reports of three clandestine training centres operated by the LTTE in Tamil Nadu," the prime minister said in a statement on Thursday.

He said the rebels, who were defeated by Sri Lankan government troops in May 2009, were hoping to relaunch their decades-long fight for an independent homeland in the island.

"Their next target is to create small-scale attacks," Jayaratne said. "The entire nation must be ready to face this threat."

No rebel attacks have been launched since the Tigers were wiped out, but the premier told parliament on Wednesday that the country needed to maintain tough emergency laws to deal with their possible resurgence.

Sri Lanka has resisted international calls to end emergency laws, which are routinely approved by parliament.

The United Nations estimates that up to 100,000 people died in the ethnic conflict which lasted from 1972 until 2009.

The opposition accuses the government of using emergency laws to stifle political dissent and the media, charges denied by the authorities.

 

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Tamil Tiger Rebels Training In India: Sri Lanka PM

COLOMBO, March 10, 2011 (AFP) -Remnants of Sri Lanka's defeated Tamil rebels are undergoing military training in India in a bid to revive their separatist campaign at home, the island's prime minister said Thursday.

D.M. Jayaratne said an unknown number of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters were based at secret camps in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

"We have intelligence reports of three clandestine training centres operated by the LTTE in Tamil Nadu," the prime minister said in a statement on Thursday.

He said the rebels, who were defeated by Sri Lankan government troops in May 2009, were hoping to relaunch their decades-long fight for an independent homeland in the island.

"Their next target is to create small-scale attacks," Jayaratne said. "The entire nation must be ready to face this threat."

No rebel attacks have been launched since the Tigers were wiped out, but the premier told parliament on Wednesday that the country needed to maintain tough emergency laws to deal with their possible resurgence.

Sri Lanka has resisted international calls to end emergency laws, which are routinely approved by parliament.

The United Nations estimates that up to 100,000 people died in the ethnic conflict which lasted from 1972 until 2009.

The opposition accuses the government of using emergency laws to stifle political dissent and the media, charges denied by the authorities.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/LTTE-being-trained-in-India/H1-Article1-671430.aspx
Where is the source?
Because you provided an adulterated news.
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The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday argued that there was a need to extend Emergency laws in Sri Lanka as the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were trying to remerge after training in camps in Tamil Nadu. Prime Minister DM Jayaratne, quoting intelligence reports, told Parliament that t
hree training camps for LTTE cadres were being run. In one of the camps, the cadres were being trained to target VIPs.

Jayaratne, 81, who was appointed Prime Minister by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2010, said three remnants of diaspora LTTE were involved in providing logistics to the camps: US-based Rudrakumaran, Nediyavan from Norway and a certain Vinayagam who allegedly fled to India during the last stages of the civil conflict in 2009.

Lankan Tamil rebels were known to have been trained in several parts of India from late '70s to mid '80s. However, the policy was gradually reversed before the Indian Peace Keeping Force’s arrival in Sri Lanka. After former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, LTTE was banned in India; the ban continues till on Wednesday.

The Prime Minister's remarks, as quoted by Daily Mirror online, were interpreted as a move by the government to extend emergency laws in Sri Lanka nearly two years after the end of the war. Human rights agencies have been campaigning that with the war ending, Emergency laws should be withdrawn.

Asked about the PM's statement, a foreign ministry official said, he needed to check the facts before commenting.

The continuation of Emergency comes up for renewal every month in Parliament. It is inevitably passed by the government which has a huge majority in the house.

Diplomats in Colombo were cautious in reacting to Jayaratne’s unexpected assertion. "The allegation is without foundation. If the camps were mentioned to bolster the argument to extend emergency, then the argument is very fragile; like the last straw," a diplomat said.

During the debate, Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe put up the query whether the information with Jayaratne was shared with Indian officials during recent talks. The government was yet to reply to it till late Tuesday evening.


Looks like their PM is drunk!!

 

[Devil Soul]

http://www.hindustantimes.com/LTTE-being-trained-in-India/H1-Article1-671430.aspx
Where is the source?
Because you provided an adulterated news.
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The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday argued that there was a need to extend Emergency laws in Sri Lanka as the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were trying to remerge after training in camps in Tamil Nadu. Prime Minister DM Jayaratne, quoting intelligence reports, told Parliament that t
hree training camps for LTTE cadres were being run. In one of the camps, the cadres were being trained to target VIPs.

Jayaratne, 81, who was appointed Prime Minister by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2010, said three remnants of diaspora LTTE were involved in providing logistics to the camps: US-based Rudrakumaran, Nediyavan from Norway and a certain Vinayagam who allegedly fled to India during the last stages of the civil conflict in 2009.

Lankan Tamil rebels were known to have been trained in several parts of India from late '70s to mid '80s. However, the policy was gradually reversed before the Indian Peace Keeping Force’s arrival in Sri Lanka. After former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, LTTE was banned in India; the ban continues till on Wednesday.

The Prime Minister's remarks, as quoted by Daily Mirror online, were interpreted as a move by the government to extend emergency laws in Sri Lanka nearly two years after the end of the war. Human rights agencies have been campaigning that with the war ending, Emergency laws should be withdrawn.

Asked about the PM's statement, a foreign ministry official said, he needed to check the facts before commenting.

The continuation of Emergency comes up for renewal every month in Parliament. It is inevitably passed by the government which has a huge majority in the house.

Diplomats in Colombo were cautious in reacting to Jayaratne’s unexpected assertion. "The allegation is without foundation. If the camps were mentioned to bolster the argument to extend emergency, then the argument is very fragile; like the last straw," a diplomat said.

During the debate, Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe put up the query whether the information with Jayaratne was shared with Indian officials during recent talks. The government was yet to reply to it till late Tuesday evening.


Looks like their PM is drunk!!

Source?? lemme help u again: Tamil Tiger rebels training in India: Sri Lanka PM
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/Tamil-Tiger-rebels-training-in-India-Sri-Lanka-PM/articleshow/7669912.cms
http://www.emirates247.com/tamil-tiger-rebels-training-in-india-sri-lanka-pm-2011-03-10-1.366413

 

[notsuperstitious]

Already posted. This is worth debating when the SL govt provides details to India, US and Norway. Until then, its just internal fear politics by a war cabinet.

 

[ChinaToday]

Indian two faces foreign policies at work here,on one hand they will tell you they are yr friend but on the other they will habour and support your enermy at home just like tibet and the dalailama .A stable srilankra will be serious threat to india to project its influence in south asia and therefore it will never allow it to happen.

 

[Hafizzz]

Indian two faces foreign policies at work here,on one hand they will tell you they are yr friend but on the other they will habour and support your enermy at home just like tibet and the dalailama .A stable srilankra will be serious threat to india to project its influence in south asia and therefore it will never allow it to happen.

Tamil Tigers are Indians and India is using them to annex a chunk of Sri Lankan kand mass.

 

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Devil Soul,

A very good & interesting post.

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Indian two faces foreign policies at work here,on one hand they will tell you they are yr friend but on the other they will habour and support your enermy at home just like tibet and the dalailama .A stable srilankra will be serious threat to india to project its influence in south asia and therefore it will never allow it to happen.

Well said!