Tamil doctors in the forefront of Tiger terrorism
Melbourne, 06 July, (Asiantribune.com): After the latest arrests of doctors in UK and Australia the international media spotlight has fallen on Muslim doctors. They are now seen as agents of Islamic terrorism. The focus of investigations has shifted to these respectable faces of terrorism which has taken the counter-terrorist agencies of the West by surprise. In UK Mohammed Asha, a Jordanian doctor, was arrested. In Australia Dr. Mohammed Haneef was arrested at the airport just as he about to board the plane to India.
But long before these Muslim doctors were arrested the Tamil doctors have been in the forefront of Tamil Tiger terrorist outfit, financing, lobbying and legitimizing the violence unleashed by Velupillai Prabhakaran, the sole representative of the one-man fascist regime in the jungles of Sri Lanka,
In Australia, Federal Police have questioned Dr. Rajan Rasiah, a gynecologist in Melbourne. He is the head of the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) which is banned in some countries because it is a front for raising funds for the Tamil Tigers. The TRO funds are frozen in Sri Lanka.
Another doctor questioned by Federal Police is Dr. Easwaram Kanapathipillai, a general practitioner, also in Melbourne. According to the 2005 report filed with Australian Securities and Investment Commission he is the Executive Director. Chairman, Dr. Rajan Rasiah is Chairman, Dr R Tharman Saverimuttu, Executive Director of Board of Directors TRO and Dr. Kanapathipillai is a board member, who ran a Sri Lankan restaurant in Glen Waverley.
This is seen as another business front of the Tamil Tigers to raise funds. Arooran Vignanamorthy, who is now held in custody by the Australian government, was one of the key operatives working at this restaurant. He and Yadhavan were refused bail last week by the Supreme Court. But they have lodged another appeal in the Appeals Court.
In Sydney, Dr. T. Manamohan, a heart surgeon, has been one of the main financial backers of the Tamil Tigers. He lobbies for them behind-the-scene and lends his professional status and name to pressure other Tamils to make contributions. Dr. Manmohan is reported to have written a $100,000.00 cheque recently.
Rohan Gunaratne in his book, International and Regional Security-Implications of the SL Tamil insurgency(1997) identified the Australian Federation of Tamil Association (AFTA) as a front of the Tamil Tigers and among the representatives in the various states, the following docs are mentioned:1. Dr R. Ravindran, Adelaide, South Australia; 2. Dr Nadanchandran, Canberra, ACT; 3 Dr Bertie Sebastianpillai, Darwin, Northern Territory; 4 Dr .N. Rasalingam, Auckland, New Zealand 5 Dr V.Sundaralingam, Sydney, New South Wales. In Dr D.R.L Fernando’s book Big Bluff -1985, he mentions Dr R. Sivagurunathan and Dr John St George-both from NSW- as vociferous campaigners for Tamil Tigers.
In America Dr. A. Ranjan, a nephrologist, functioned as the head of the TRO. He too was questioned by the FBI.
This is only the tip of the iceberg of the Tamil doctors who are some of the major financiers of Tamil Tiger terrorism.....(snip)
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PRISTINA, Serbia-Authorities in Kosovo stepped up security Wednesday after police detained a man claiming to have been threatened into acting against "the interests of a foreign state," police said. The man, whose claim is being investigated, told police masked and armed men approached him "demanding he act in their service and fights the interests of a foreign state and collect information for them," threatening to harm him and his family, police said in a statement.
The claim, which was made on Tuesday, prompted police to seek additional help from NATO peacekeepers. However, police believe the suspect made a false claim and is being held in detention pending an investigation. Authorities did not reveal which country the threat was directed against. But a security source, who spoke on condition of anonimity because of the lack of authority to speak to the media, told the AP the alleged threat was aimed against US interests in the province.
US officials in Kosovo said they were confident in the local police's ability to control the situation and did not comment further. US peacekeepers serving as part of the 16,000 strong NATO-led force said earlier Wednesday they maintained a "high level of force security" during Independence Day celebrations.
In the largest military installation, Camp Bondsteel, home to some 1,500 US troops, Maj. Robert Isabella said dog teams were being used as an additional measure of security. "On certain days we have the dogs out. This is normal standard operating procedure," Isabella said, adding that no specific threat to the troops was received.
Kosovo's majority ethnic Albanian population is predominantly Muslim although mostly secular. The province remains one of the most pro-American corners of Europe. The province has been administered by the United Nations since 1999 following NATO's air war that halted a Serb crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists.
http://www.serbianna.com/news/2007/01934.shtml
Long but interesting read on jihadis, bribes and allegations in Kosovo: