Media Release : Wednesday, 07 February 2007

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Hon Dr Manmohan Singh                                                                                          

The Prime Minister of India

South Block

Saising Hill

India - 110011

Dear Prime Minister,

The use of Indian Soil to propagate LTTE Terror in Sri Lanka

The Society for Peace Unity and Human Rights of Sri Lanka operating from Australia, learnt from most recent media reports that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrrorising the Sri Lankan government and its people is getting arms and ammunition smuggled from the Tamil Nadu State in India.

Whilst we applaud the prompt action taken by the Tamil Nadu police to apprehend some culprits, we urge them to redouble their efforts to capture the perpetrators, as the international community believes that the police have so far only scratched the surface of this deep-rooted cancer.

Inaction or indifference can lead to a separatist war in India lead by Tamil Nadu. This will threaten the whole fabric of the united Indian Nation risking Balkanization of the South Asian continent.

The incidences and matters of concern reported in brief are as follows:

1. November first week, 2006: Tamil Nadu police seize a lathe machine (useful for making bomb shells) attached to a boat that goes fishing in the sea between Rameswaram and Sri Lanka. November 29, 2006: The police recover 30 boxes of gelex boosters (used for increasing the velocity of bomb shrapnel) after a vehicle carrying them from Andhra Pradesh met with an accident in Manamadurai, 45 km from Madurai.

2. December 5 and 11, 2006: Two batches of Rameswaram fishermen find in their fishing nets three live rockets with a striking range of more than 10 km. January 24, 2007: Tamil Nadu police arrest eight people including five Sri Lankan Tamils trying to transport two tonnes of ball-bearings (useful for making bombs and mines) from Chennai to Thoothukudi. The consignment, sourced from an automobile spare-parts shop in Dadar, Mumbai, was to leave Thoothukudi in southern Tamil Nadufor Sri Lanka. No doubt the consignment of ball bearings were bound for Jaffna,

3. Several seizures of contraband along the Tamil Nadu coast as well as from inland have the fingerprints of the LTTE and the sources familiar with the LTTE operations feel Mullathivu in north-east Sri Lanka is the prime landing point. Consignments from across the Palk Strait may be offloaded from vessels to smaller boats off the coast north of Mullatheevu and south of Elephant pass to be ferried to Tiger-controlled areas.

4. There are only 60 coast check points along the 1, 076-km the Tamil Nadu state coastline despite there are 400 identified landing points (for boats to and from Sri Lanka). The situation related to smuggling of weapons of destruction is almost out of control since there are no mid-sea seizures or landing-point seizures in Sri Lanka. This needs to be rectified.

5. There are reports of LTTE recruiting combatants from Sri Lankan Tamils housed in refugee camps in the state of Tamil Nadu.

We believe, there is no necessity for any introduction or to record here the atrocities committed by the LTTE since its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is a criminal wanted by India and the Interpol for committing crimes against humanity. We are of the view that as a friendly nation and a member of SARC committed to peace in Sri Lanka, India is obligated to take all possible steps to prevent terrorist organisations like the LTTE operating freely across the Palk Straight.

We appeal to you to take immediate steps to investigate the above revelations, commence joint patrolling of the Palk Strait and implement any other actions necessary to stop further smuggling of arms and ammunitions from Indian soil destabilising Sri Lanka.

We also urge the Central Government of India to take proactive action to rectify the misinformation denigrating Sri Lanka spread by political leaders in the Tamil Nadu state empathising with the LTTE. There is an urgent need to educate the Tamil Nadu community as well as its at time over exuberant politicians who are cleverly manipulated by the LTTE (and its sympathisers) to refrain from unjustly attacking President Rajapaksha's government in Sri Lanka.

Often there virulent attacks have been proved baseless.

We look forward to hearing from your honour or your representative in Australia, the Indian Ambassador, His Excellency P.P Shukla.

Thanking you, Yours faithfully,

Dr Dasarath Jayasuriya

President (SPUR Victoria)

Society for Peace, Unity & Human Rights in Sri Lanka (SPUR)
Reg No. A 003 07777 M
P.O. Box 4066
Mulgrave, Victoria, VIC 3170
Australia.

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