Dutch court jails five Tamil Tigers accused of funding LTTE

A Dutch court Friday convicted and sentenced five Sri Lankan Tamils accused of extorting money from other Dutch Tamils to fund the terrorist activities of Sri Lanka's terror outfit Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) .



The Hague District Court in Netherlands sentenced the five Tamil Tigers to prison terms of up to six years charged of financing an international criminal and terrorist organization responsible for suicide bombings, assassinations and murder of thousands by blackmailing and threatening the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in the country.

Prosecutors had argued the five men, all of whom are now Dutch citizens, that they ran front organizations like the Tamil Youth Organization and the Dutch Tamil Arts and Culture Organization to collect millions of euros to finance the terror war in Sri Lanka.

Following a long bloody battle the Sri Lankan government forces vanquished the terrorist organization in May 2009 but a recent Europol report says the organization is still active in Europe.