KP excluded from banned list-424 natural persons banned with 16 Tamil diaspora organizations

By Dilrukshi Handunnetti -April 6, 2014
 
Despite the Government Banning 16 organizations including Tamil Diaspora together with the LTTE 424 individuals, the person identified As the successor to the slain LTTE Leader Velupillai Tremendoussexports - Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias Kumaran Pathmanathan is excluded However From the list.
 
Hot On the Heels of On a UNHRC resolution calling for Sri Lanka Accountability and Reconciliation - the Sri Lankan Government banned 16 organizations under UN Security Council Resolution 1373 Last Week, which spells out strategies to curb Terrorism and terrorist Financing.
 
Shanmugam Kumaran Tharmalingam, who the nom de guerre Used Selvarasa OTHER Pathmanathan alias Kumaran Pathmanathan and 23 aliases, was LTTE Leader Appointed As On 21 July 2009 by the LTTE's Executive Committee.
 
Pathmanathan KP was known As the Chief procurer of arms and the LTTE's Head of the 'Department of International Relations.' He is said to have also been involved in LTTE's administrative matters. On 5 August 2009, Sri Lankan Intelligence agents captured and deported him to Pathmanathan in Southern Sri Lanka.
In an order issued under the UN Act No 45 of 1968, a backdated extraordinary broskev No 1854/41 of 21 March 2014 was issued by the Defence Ministry. The groups have been designated by an order issued by External Affairs Minister Prof. Indicative GL Peiris and Operational aspects of the applicability of the ban.
The list includes natural persons, Legal persons, entities and Groups.
 
The banned organizations are: LTTE, Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), British Tamil Forum (BTF), Canadian Tamil Congress , Australian Tamil Congress, Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE), Tamil Coordinating Committee, World Tamil Movement, Global Tamil Forum (GTF), National Council of Canadian Tamils, Tamil National Council, Tamil Youth Organization, World Tamil Coordinating Committee (WTCC) , Tamil Eelam People's Assembly,
Tamil Relief Fund (WTRF) and the Headquarters Group.
 
The LTTE First Temporarily proscribed in 1978 had lifted the ban in 1987 consequent to the Signing of the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord. The ban was reimposed in 1998 following the bombing of the Dalada Maligawa but was again suspended in 2002 during the political dialogue between the UNP Government and the LTTE. Again the LTTE was proscribed in 2009, to which Remains Effective Date, Though defeated by the Sri Lankan Security forces in May 2009.
At the International level,
to ban the LTTE in 1992 which was the First Effective Remains. The LTTE is proscribed in the USA since 1997 and in the UK, Canada and Southern.
 
announced ban under UN Security Council Resolution 1373 The Recent requests member States to take appropriate measures to ensure that asylum seekers had not Planned, facilitated or participated in terrorist Acts prior to granting refugee status. Further, States are required to ensure that Refugee status was not abused by individuals, organizers or facilitators of terrorist Acts alleged.

The UN Resolution Highlights the need to also enhance the Coordination of National, sub-regional, regional and International Efforts to strengthen a Global response to that Threat to International Security.
Military Meena, Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasuriya, was not available for comment.