By Kannan Padhmanaban in Los Angeles
The US is indirectly applying more pressure to the LTTE to cease its continued terrorism and violence in Sri Lanka against the sovereign state and the Sri Lankan community.
The United States government is also alarmed and concerned of the links between the LTTE and Al Qaeda. The charges against Karunakaran Kandasamy will be sending a strong message to the LTTE leadership that the United States of America will not sit back and tolerate the LTTE, a designated foreign terrorist organisation in their country from raising funds in the United States of America and allowing them to carry acts of terrorism in its country and abroad.
The LTTE agents are being forced to operate even more covertly, however the intelligence agencies and information passed from the intelligence wings of the Tamil Democratic Alliance is helping the western governments tackle the LTTE. Members within the Tamil diaspora are complaining against the activities of LTTE agents and gangsters on a regular basis to the authorities which is resulting in more and more arrests.
The US is trying to tame the LTTE and tame Prabhakaran and force the LTTE to cease all violence and attacks and come to the negotiating table with the SL government without giving any usual excuses. I telephoned Mr Nesan Shankar Raji of the EROS Democratic Front in Zurich and he said "whether Prabhakaran's arrogance will give in is yet to be seen and until then we will be encouraging the US and western governments to actively engage in targeting the LTTE's interests abroad and also encouraging other governments to ban the LTTE as a terrorist organisation and at the same time educating them that the LTTE does not represent a vast majority of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora as they claim".
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