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Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 04.12 GMT |
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LTTE still
anti-India
- former Indian Minister of Law |
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Favouring the continuation of ban on the LTTE, Janata Dal President Subramanian Swamy, also the former Minister of Law in India told a tribunal in India that there was no material change in the "terrorist anti-India attitude" of the outfit.
Swamy made this statement while deposing before the Unlawful Activities (prevention) Act Tribunal on 8 Nov headed by Justice Vikramjit Sen that is examining the 18-year-old ban on the LTTE, PTI reported.
"The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam is an anti-Indian organisation not only for killing former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi but also for their campaigns of threats of violence against Indian personalities opposed to its terrorism," Swamy said. He alleged that pro-LTTE organisations such as MDMK, a political party, have been publicly issuing death threats to those opposing terror activities of the banned outfit and "hence, there is no material change in the terrorist anti-India attitude of the LTTE, and therefore it is eminently just to continue the ban imposed on it by the Union government".
His deposition comes just days after MDMK leader Vaiko submitted before the special tribunal that being a sympathiser of LTTE, he should be heard while deciding the validity of extension of ban on the outfit. Swamy also told the tribunal that the US government had recently rejected a claim made in a pro-LTTE website that a self-styled leader of the remnants of the outfit was operating from American soil.
"Vaiko has publicly claimed that the US supports this formation. But in a mail to me, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake has denied this on behalf of the US government," Swamy told the tribunal.
India named the late V Prabhakaran-led group as a terror outfit and banned it in 1992 after the LTTE assassinated Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. After remaining elusive for decades, 54-year-old Prabhakaran was killed by Sri Lankan forces in May 2009.
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