Sunday, 08th June 2014
By Camelia Nathaniel
TNA/LTTE’s Current Five Phased Strategy for Eelam
First Stage - use separatist propaganda to radicalize the Tamil community
Second Stage - organize demonstrations and protests
Third Stage - provoke security forces retaliation
Fourth Stage - seek international intervention
Fifth Stage - hold a referendum and secede
The defeat of the LTTE in Sri Lanka did not end the Tamil National Alliance’s (TNA) tryst with extremism, separatism and terrorism. Despite the great tragedy inflicted on the Tamil community, the TNA could not part from the shadow of the LTTE. As their ideologies are arguably identical, the TNA leadership led by R. Sampanthan continues to engage with the LTTE’s remaining leaders overseas and a segment of the TNA works with overseas LTTE factions which are determined to revive separatism in Sri Lanka.
Created in 2000 and guided by the political and intelligence wings of the LTTE, elements in the TNA tried to legitimize the unlawful killings, maiming and injuring of civilians by the LTTE. Although not all, a number of TNA leaders remain influenced by the LTTE’s international network. Most Sri Lankans as such perceive the TNA as a proxy of the LTTE and a racist party representing and advancing the LTTE’s political and diplomatic interests. While covertly promoting separatist ideals at home, elements in the TNA work both overtly and covertly with the LTTE fronts. Together they call for an international investigation into the final phase of the war where their common leadership was eliminated.
The TNA’s campaign to delist the LTTE fronts has once again highlighted the TNA-LTTE relationship. Having lost the terrorist campaign, when the LTTE held 300,000 Tamils hostage, the TNA did not call for their release. To prompt international intervention, the LTTE tried to engineer a humanitarian catastrophe.
Ananthi Sasitharan
The TNA is a mixture of terrorists, supporters of terrorists, advocates for terrorists and victims of terrorism. The TNA MP Ananthi Sasitharan is the widow of Sinnathurai Sasitharan alias Elilan, the terrorist leader, who was in charge of LTTE’s conscription of children. Ananthi never apologized to the Sri Lankan public for the crimes committed by her husband, but she appears at the UNHRC in Geneva to perform for the international community! For Ananthi politics means – racist politics! Called the ‘drama queen’ by mainstream Tamils and many in the TNA, Ananthi has mastered the ability to whip up the emotions of the Tamils who suffered during the war.
Sivagnanam Srikugan
TNA MP Sivagnanam Sreetharan’s brother Sivagnanam Srikugan born in Kilinochchi, in 1970 now lives in Switzerland. Srikugan is running the largest collection of websites keeping the LTTE alive. The sites, based on misinformation and disinformation, has made him a millionaire. Sreetharan’s sister was married to Theepan, the LTTE leader who killed several thousands of soldiers. Sreetharan’s links to both LTTE cadres and activists overseas includes Rathika Sitsabaiesan, a Canadian who is of Sri Lankan Tamil origin. During a regional visit to meet LTTE leaders in Tamil Nadu, Rathika Sitsabaiesan, the New Democratic Party parliamentarian who promotes LTTE interests in Canada met with Sreetharan.
Funding for TNA and TNPF by LTTE
Investigations by The Sunday Leader reveal that elements within the TNA did not abandon the relationship with the LTTE primarily for financial reasons. As a result of LTTE funding, the TNA leaders were obliged to tow the LTTE line. Beholden to the LTTE, TNA leaders such as Sreetharan glorified Prabhakaran and his cult and M.K. Sivajilingam celebrated the dead terrorists referring to them as Martyrs.
Furthermore, a breakaway group of the TNA, the Tamil National Peoples Alliance (TNPF) received significant support from overseas LTTE fronts. When the TNPF split from the TNA, the LTTE fronts including its umbrella organization, the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) tried to bring them together. The deep influence of the GTF is seen in a letter by Father S.J. Emmanuel to TNA and TNPF leaders.
Continued next week
From : http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2014/06/08/the-politics-of-terror/
