LTTE's international network of financial support has survived despite the end of Sri Lanka's war, US report says

Although Sri Lanka's Tamil terrorist group, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) lost the war on the ground in the Indian Ocean island in 2009, its international financial network survived largely intact, a report issued by the United States said Thursday.



The Country Reports on Terrorism 2009 released by the U.S. State Department on Thursday said that the arrest of the LTTE's principle financier and arms supplier Selvarajah (Kumaram) Patmanathan, alias KP, a year ago by the Sri Lankan authorities has dealt a blow to the LTTE's international network.
The report says that the network continued to collect contributions from the Tamil diaspora in North America, Europe, and Australia, and reportedly locally-based LTTE sympathizers have coerced some of these contributions.
The LTTE also used Tamil charitable organizations as fronts for fundraising, the report added.