LTTE’s strong anti-India posture continues; Govt extends ban
Government has extended the ban on LTTE declaring that
it continues to adopt a strong anti- India posture and pose a grave
threat to the security of its citizens.
In a
notification, the Home Ministry said the activities of LTTE are
detrimental to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India and
there is a continuing strong need to control all such separatist
activities by all possible means.
“LTTE continues to
adopt a strong anti-India posture as also continues to pose a grave
threat to the security of Indian nationals, it is necessary to declare
LTTE as an ‘unlawful association’ with immediate effect,” the Home
Ministry notification issued by joint secretary Dharmendra Sharma said.
LTTE was banned in India in the aftermath of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.
The
organisation was also defeated and virtually decimated by the Sri
Lankan forces in 2009 when its supremo V. Prabhakaran was also
eliminated.
The Home Ministry said separatist Tamil
chauvinist and pro-LTTE groups continue to foster a separatist tendency
among the masses and trying to enhance the support base for LTTE in
India, particularly in Tamil Nadu, which will ultimately have a strong
disintegrating influence over the territorial integrity of India.
“The
diaspora continue to spread through articles in the Internet portals,
anti-India feeling amongst the Sri Lankan Tamils by holding the top
Indian political leaders and bureaucrats responsible for the defeat of
the LTTE,” it said.
“Such propaganda through
Internet, which remains continued, is likely to impact VVIP security
adversely in India,” the notification said.
The Home
Ministry said the activities of the LTTE remnant cadres, dropouts,
sympathisers, supporters who have been traced out recently in Tamil Nadu
suggest that the cadres sent to Tamil Nadu would ultimately be utilised
by the LTTE for unlawful activities.
The activities
of pro-LTTE organisations and individuals have come to notice of the
government that despite of the ban in force, attempts have been made by
these forces to extend their support to the LTTE.
“The
LTTE leaders, operatives and supporters have been inimically opposed to
India’s policy on their organisation and action of the state machinery
in curbing their activities,” it said.
The Home
Ministry also said the LTTE’s objective for a separate homeland (Tamil
Eelam) for all Tamils threatens the sovereignty and territorial
integrity of India and amounts to cession from the Union and thus falls
the ambit of unlawful activities.
The LTTE, even
after its military defeat in May 2009 in Sri Lanka, has not abandoned
the concept of ‘Eelam’ and has been clandestinely working towards the
‘Eelam’ cause by undertaking fund raising and propaganda activities in
Europe.
The remnant LTTE leaders or cadres have also
initiated efforts to regroup the scattered activities and resurrect the
outfit locally and internationally, it said.
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