Zurich City Councillor, Urs Egger said that he was shocked that he had been duped and informed one-sidedly by the Swiss-CET (Swiss Council of Eelam Tamils) who invited Egger to be patron to Swiss-CET elections which he later found to have been initiated and organized by the Global Tamil Forum (GTF).
He stated this when he met with Sri Lankan expatriates in Switzerland.
Zürich City Councillor acknowledged that the founding of the Swiss-CET was a new trial of the LTTE to find a new stand under a new name or to promote the financing of the LTTE and to demand Western states to further meddle in the interior politics of Sri Lanka in the sense of the LTTE, a media release by the Sri Lanka Diaspora Switzerland stated.
Mr. Egger promised to evaluate the information provided to him by Sri Lanka Diaspora Switzerland and to contact Sri Lanka Diaspora Switzerland in case of further questions. He also promised to avoid contact with the Swiss-CET and other cover organizations of the LTTE in future. He said he would in no way promote violence and terrorism, the media release further stated.
Following is the full text of the media release :
Sri Lanka Diaspora Switzerland meets Zürich City Councillor
On 18th April 2010, members of Sri Lanka Diaspora Switzerland met Mr. Urs Egger, member of the City Council of the City of Zürich, for an information talk.
Mr. Egger had, like other Swiss politicians, had taken over the patronage for the elections of a representation of the Tamils in Switzerland, the Swiss-CET (Swiss Council of Eelam Tamils), on 28.03.2010, which was published by Tamilelection.ch. According to his own information, Mr. Egger was not aware of the elections to the Swiss-CET being initiated and organized by the Global Tamil Forum, a cover organization of the Sri Lankan Terror Organization.As he had been told, the “here mentioned organization of the Swiss Tamils has nothing to do with the LTTE. It is being built up by young Swiss Tamils, which will have their future in Switzerland. It is about their own organization for a better participation in the public life in Switzerland…”
Sri Lanka Diaspora Switzerland had then wanted to begin a dialog with Mr. Egger in order to explain to him the whole facts as well as the networking of the LTTE and their sub-organizations with the organizers of Swiss-CET. The Swiss-CET was not only organized by Tamils of the second generation in Switzerland, but known representatives of the cover organizations of the LTTE, and were steering the fate of the organization. They were also not focused primarily on the public life in Switzerland, but on the commencement of the fight of the LTTE in Sri Lanka.
During the discussion, Mr. Egger showed himself surprised about the constitution of the Swiss-CET, which had been brought to his attention and in which, among others, in article 3, where the “reconstruction of the independent and sovereign State of Tamil Eelam” is demanded. The present members of the Sri Lanka Diaspora explained to Mr. Egger the functioning of the networks of the LTTE in Switzerland as well as their investment strategies and future plans.
Mr. Egger thanked the representatives of the Sri Lanka Diaspora Switzerland for the information provided to him. He said that he had been asked to take on patronage for the elections to Swiss-CET by Tamil employees of his wife and Thayatharan Deivendran of TPAS. He was shocked that he had been duped and informed one-sidedly.
He acknowledged that the founding of the Swiss-CET was a new trial of the LTTE to find a new stand under a new name or to promote the financing of the LTTE and to demand Western states to further meddle in the interior politics of Sri Lanka in the sense of the LTTE.
Mr. Egger promised to evaluate the information provided to him by Sri Lanka Diaspora Switzerland and to contact Sri Lanka Diaspora Switzerland in case of further questions. He also promised to avoid contact with the Swiss-CET and other cover organizations of the LTTE in future. He would in no way promote violence and terrorism.
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