Tuesday, 28 February 2006

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UN, the Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Community must Condemn Tamil Tiger Terrorist Death Threats to Leaders in the Norwegian Tamil community

SPUR Urges Immediate Action from the Norwegian Government

The Society Peace Unity and Human Rights of Sri Lanka (SPUR), an 11-year-old human rights organization operating from Australia learnt from media reports that the Tamil Tiger Terrorists in Norway are doing their utmost to suppress the freedom of expression and democratic rights of the Norwegian Tamil citizens by threatening them with violence and some even with death. 

It has been widely reported that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE terrorists) had issued the second and last warning to Mr Rajan Sivarajah, leader of the Liberal Democratic Tamils in Norway, an organisation dedicated to embracing democracy and the protection of human rights of Tamils North and East in Sri Lanka.

Although the Norwegian authorities have been informed about the death threats and the extortion of money from the Norwegian Tamils, apparently, no action has been taken by them up to now to safeguard the democratic rights of the Tamil residents in Norway disagreeing with the LTTE’s despotic, violent and sadistic ways.

As detailed in the reports, the most common problem faced by the Tamils living in Norway is extortion, the pressure to pay for the war chest of the terrorist outfit. Rajan Sivarajah is one of the very few Tamils who refused to pay the LTTE. Sivarajah’s account of his death threat reflects what the vast majority of Tamils living in Norway experience in silence under the Tamil Tigers’ terrorist grip. They are tortured on a daily basis.

The LTTE has a proven record of killing ethnic Tamils civilians who disagree with their ideology and famous for their racist hatred of non Tamils. They have an unenviable recode of killing Tamil political opponents, and the killing of a well respected global figure such as the Foreign Minister Mr. Laxshman Kadirgamar is a case in point of LTTE’s desperation and psychopathic lust for violence. Although LTTE is an outlawed terrorist organization in US, UK, Australia, India, Malaysia and many other countries, Norway is universally regarded as a sanctuary for this terror group.

As an organization committed to peace, unity and human rights, SPUR appeals to the United Nation, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Community to condemn:

(1) Tamil Tiger’s recent issuing of death threats to Tamil leaders in Norway who oppose the LTTE; and

(2) Extorting money from the Norwegian Tamil community at large to purchase arms and pay recruited child soldiers.

We also urge the Norwegian Governments to take decisive steps to stop the LTTE extortions, stop the allocation of government and municipal funding to the LTTE front organisations in Norway and to take immediate action to assure that the democratic rights of the Tamil community living in Norway are by no means compromised by the actions of LTTE terrorists.

Thanking you,

Yours sincerely,

Dr Dasarath Jayasuriya

President

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

Reg No. A 003 07777 M

PO Box 4066

Mulgrave    VIC 3170

Australia

The URL of this Media Release is http://www.spur.asn.au/SPUR_20060228_SPUR_Urges_Immediate_Action_from_the_Norway_Government.htm