The authorities on Tuesday have asked the police to investigate the shipment from Chennai and detained the Canada-bound container with a consignment of promotional material for the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
"There were 45 cartons of LTTE books to an address in Canada," an AFP report quoting a police official said.
Sri Lankan security forces vanquished the LTTE organization within the island two years ago but the rebels are active and continuing their struggle for a separate homeland overseas among the Tamil diaspora and in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu which is home to 80 million Tamils.
The Sri Lankan government has repeatedly warned that although the rebels are no longer a threat in the country they are secretly trying to re-group and operating camps in Tamil Nadu.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne has said that the Tamil Tiger leaders in the United States and Norway are trying to review the separatist movement again.
No comments:
Post a Comment