:.News Line : India extends ban on LTTE

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Wednesday, November 24, 2010 - 05.05 GMT
India extends ban on LTTE


India has extended its ban on the LTTE as it fears the revival of the outlawed group, a senior Indian official said. "There is still a threat from the LTTE. The ban has been extended by the Indian home ministry,” the official said. There are apprehensions about the revival of the LTTE, he said a couple of days before Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna goes to Sri Lanka for wide-ranging talks with his counterpart G.L. Peiris. Early this month, a special tribunal headed by a Delhi High Court judge upheld the central government's decision to extend the ban on the terror group for two more years, stating that the organisation was regrouping in India to form a base and was thus a threat to the security of the country. The LTTE was banned in 1992 and the Indian government has since extended the ban every two years. The group is also banned in the European Union, Canada and the US, reported IANS.

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