SL bans 16 overseas groups functioning as LTTE-fronts

April 1, 2014 

The Sri Lankan Government on Tuesday banned 16 groups operating overseas over their alleged links with terrorism, the Ministry of Defence said.

Defence Ministry and military spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya said that the ban was enforced under a UN Security Council resolution 1373 which was implemented following the September 2001 terrorist attack in the United States. 

He said that apart from the Tamil Tiger rebels, the government has listed 15 other groups operating overseas who are keen on having a separate in Sri Lanka.

Among those listed are the Global Tamil Forum, the British Tamils ​​Forum and the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, two influential Tamil Diaspora groups operating in Britain and the United States. "Under the ban legal action will be taken against anyone having links with those groups," he said.

The ban also lists four influential Tamil Diaspora activists, Perinbanayagam Sivaparan alias Nediyavan, Reverend Father SJ Emmanuel, Visuvanathan Ruthirakumaran and Sekarampillai Vinayakamoorthy.

The move comes after most of these groups had been successful in their heavily funded campaigns to convince foreign countries to back a US-sponsored resolution at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week.

Meanwhile the UN Human Rights Council was Informed by the Sri Lankan Government that the Tamil Tigers were regrouping in the North of Sri Lanka following the end of the a 30 year War in May 2009 with the defeat of the Rebels.  (Xinhua)

List of groups banned by Sri Lanka

01. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam aka LTTE

02. Tamil Rehabilitation Organization aka TRO

03. Tamil Coordinating Committee aka TCC

04. British Tamil Forum aka BTF

05. World Tamil Movement aka WTM

06. Canadian Tamil Congress aka CTC

07. Australian Tamil Congress aka ATC

08. Global Tamil Forum aka GTF

09. National Council Of Canadian Tamils ​​aka NCCT

10. Tamil National Council aka TNC

11.Tamil Youth Organization aka TYO

12. World Tamil Coordinating Committee aka WTCC.

13. Transnational Government Of Tamil Eelam aka TGTE

14. Tamil Eelam Peoples Assembly aka TEPA

15. World Tamil Relief Fund aka WTRF

16. Headquarters Group aka HQ ​​Group