Global Terror Infrastructure and Implications for India continues...

A Financial Intelligence Unit-India is already in operation and will be the nodal agency responsible for receiving, processing, analysing and disseminating information relating to suspect financial transactions to intelligence and enforcement agencies.

The importance of international cooperation in combating global terrorism, in all its dimensions, cannot be over-stressed. Only by demonstrating zero tolerance to acts of terrorism committed anywhere in the world, and by working together, including sharing of intelligence on terrorist activities, can we effectively counter the terrorist threat. States must refrain from organizing, instigating, facilitating, participating in, financing, encouraging or tolerating terrorist activities. They must take appropriate measures to ensure that their territories are not used for setting up terrorist infrastructures or training camps ends. India must set an example by giving priority to smashing the terror-financing and clandestine business empire of the LTTE which is anchored in Tamil Nadu, Bangalore and Mumbai. We should no more take a non-chalant attitude to the LTTE, if we want to dent the Terror Incorporated that has emerged within the country.


Facts about the LTTE

The Liberation Tigers of the Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was founded by Vellupillai Prabhakaran on 5 March 1976, the day he conducted a successful bank robbery in Puttur. After a few years of militancy, there was a split thus was created the People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) by Uma Maheswaran; thereafter many splinter groups emerged. At one time, thirty-seven groups were existing; five were prominent—LTTE, TELO, EPRLF, PLOT and EROS. In due course, LTTE by betrayal and internecine assassinations emerged as the most powerful terrorist organization in Sri Lanka. The ideology of violence of the LTTE is drawn from the Dravidian “National” Movement in Tamil Nadu in the 1950s and 1960s. The cult of martyrdom and the ideology of vengeance are based on appeals to a misinterpreted heroic past. Its leader, V. Prabhakaran, is a character of deep suspicion, fanatic outlook, relentless pursuit of vengeance and utter disregard for human life.


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