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U.S. financially clamps down on Sri Lankan charity accused of bankrolling LTTE
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Berty
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Berty,
ru calling Tamils as coolies..UR a Racist!!
I think he is a COOLIST!!
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PERA SIR..so your in Hong Kong and not in SRI LANKA..
Very Interesting..!
so your not lecturing in Peradeniya University!
May be the time you went missing you were actually moving to Hong Kong..U want to explain that to me..!
Thank You!!
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US supports Israel and Sri Lanka on political agenda not on human rights or rule of law. Both countries bomb and kill civilians which is terrorism the horrors committed by former Yugoslav leader Milosovic did to Bosnians and Kosovons. Because Milosovic was a Marxist-racist he was deposed and brought to account for his human rights abuses.
Israel and Sri Lanka are America's friends, so, their criminality is no barrier for giving unconditional help with aid and military hardware. The end results is more bombing, more sufferings and more killings.
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Jana..
so your in Sweden..
Tigress thangatchi in UK
and my good friend SINTHAKA...ur in North America..
very interesting..lolz
I am having fun on Saturday early morning..what a sunny nice day in HK. Isn't it PERA!
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yes Tmilchelvan killing is a loss for LTTE but have given a major boot for their pulicity all over the world including in India
Nedumaran and Vaiko got a 'major boot' alright..so much for publicity!
so Machang..ur not in SRI LANKA...Hilarious..lolz..!!
is it snowing in NORTH AMERICA..lolz |
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Berty Ayya,
so Machang..ur not in SRI LANKA...Hilarious..lolz
Dont panic..some of members country coming as NA or NP..according to Mark it is becasue of there proxy or intranet..
NA is not North America..:):)
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Berty,
How many times I told you that I am in HK in the past??
You did not believe me :(
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Some information which I thought of sharing with the forum members.
U.S. clamps down on Sri Lankan charity
By JEANNINE AVERSA AP Economics Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press
WASHINGTON. The Bush administration took action Thursday against a Sri Lankan charity with branches in the United States and in other countries for allegedly raising money to help bankroll terrorist activities.
The Treasury Department moved against the Tamils Rehabilitation Organization, with the acronym TRO, with headquarters in Sri Lanka and offices in 17 countries worldwide. Any bank accounts or other financial assets found in the United States that belong to the charity must be frozen. Americans are prohibited from making donations or otherwise doing business with the group.
The department accused the charity of acting 'as a front to facilitate fundraising' and other support for the Tamil Tigers, known formally as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The United States has deemed the Tamil Tigers a terrorist group.
The charity's U.S. branch is in Cumberland, Md., the Treasury Department says.
The rebel group in Sri Lanka has been fighting for an independent homeland since 1983. The 3 million mainly Hindu Tamils have long faced discrimination from the predominantly Buddhist Sinhalese majority in the nation of 19 million people. The conflict has killed thousands of people on the island, which lies off India's southern tip.
'TRO passed off its operations as charitable, when in fact it was raising money for a designated terrorist group responsible for heinous acts of terrorism,' said Adam Szubin, director of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control. The agency administers and enforces the United States' financial sanctions programs.
The United States contends the Tamil Tigers oversee the TRO's activities.
The department alleges that in the United States, the charity has raised funds on behalf of the Tamil Tigers through a network of individual representatives. 'According to sources within the organization, TRO is the preferred conduit of funds from the United States to the (Tamil Tigers) in Sri Lanka,' the department said.
TRO also was involved in the purchase of 'munitions, equipment, communications devices and other technology' for the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, the department alleged. It did not say how much money, if any, the charitable group has in the United States.
'TRO's efforts worldwide reportedly have allowed the (Tamil Tigers) to use humanitarian aid, which TRO collected from the international community after the December 2004 tsunami, to launch new campaigns to strengthen the (Tamil Tigers) military capacity,' the department alleged.
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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!!
The Bush administration has, at last, realized the dangers of CHARITY organizations which feed terrorist outfits worldwide with billions of $, £ & ? ! |
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