Saturday, 16 April 2005

Mr Tony Blair

The Hon Prime Minister

10, Downing Street, London  

The United Kingdom

A wake up call for the British policy makers and the law enforcing authorities from the incident at the Hindu Kovil in Wembley

We wish to refer to the recent incident where two British citizens of Sri Lankan Tamil origin were held illegally by the Tamil Tiger Terrorist mafia. We appeal to you to take urgent action to punish the culprits who live in the UK and also to take the required steps to stop the Tamil Tiger Terrorists from operating in the UK, from where they are promoting terrorism and human rights violations in Sri Lanka.

The British Government's professed stand on international terrorism and its unabashed facilitation provided to the Tamil Tiger Terrorists in the UK have lead many observers to realize the ease with which the 'powerful' nations choose to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds while paying scant regard to international obligations.

At present, in the UK, Scotland Yard authorities are grilling Anton Balasingham, one of the megalomaniac policy makers of the Tamil Tiger Terrorists and his Australian born wife Adele Balasingham, the trainer of the LTTE women fighters and suicide bombers. Ironically both these terrorist leaders were given British passports due to the political pressure exerted by some Tamil supporters of the British Labor party, who are at the receiving end of the LTTE’s terrorism at present. In spite of the illegal imprisonment of the duo who are former actvists of the LTTE in  Sri Lanka senior leaders of the terrorists the Balasinghams, are treated as VIP politicians in the UK. The Balasingham couple have ample opportunities to carry out their anti-Sri Lanka misinformation campaign while promoting Tamil Tiger Terrorism and ideology.

Now with the stories unfolding from the Shiva Kovil in Wembley and the related High Court case, the British authorities are receiving a late wake up call. The evidence surfacing goes to prove beyond any doubt that the Balasinghams and their clique were engaged in large scale fund collections for the LTTE and were engaged in political and planning activities for this terrorist outfit. It is unfortunate that even they had stooped so low as to convert a religious centre into a place from which the Tamil congregation could be coerced to help fund a killer squad. In short the LTTE has a very high powered operational base in the UK!

A number of Human Rights organizations have made several appeals to the U N and the international community to close funding sources of the LTTE in order to stop human rights violations such as child soldier recruitment, use of suicide bombers etc. which were ignored by the British Government while they turned a Nelsonian eye to the LTTE operatives.

The issues emanating from the Hindu Kovil affair coming before the High Court and the virtual imprisonment of the two British nationals by the LTTE mafia in Sri Lanka to force a transfer of  the Kovil mangement in the UK, in itself is a valid reason for the British authorities to say enough is enough. Time has come to choose whether to run with the hares or to hunt them.

The UN Security Council Resolutions 1267 (1999) of 15 Oct 1999, 1373( 2001) of 28 Sept 2001 and 1566 (2004)of 8 Oct 2004 are clear guidelines for the British Government to act with resolve to help build a world where democracy, pluralism and not terrorism, are accepted as governing principles.

We kindly request you to initiate a policy change without giving into the dreams of reforming the Tamil Tiger Terrorists. Please listen to the harrowing tales of the innocent Tamil civilians killed, political opponents massacred, child soldiers used as cannon fodder and take action to restore the confidence of the Sri Lankan people in the British policy towards terrorism. The LTTE remains as one of the most brutal of the terrorist organizations of our time.

Let the UK policy makers and the authorities have the courage and the wisdom to help stop the LTTE receiving nourishment in the UK.

Ranjith Soysa

Spokesperson

Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights in Sri Lanka (SPUR)

Reg No. A 003 07777 M

PO Box 4066

Mulgrave    VIC 3170

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