All Sri Lankan ethnic communities have suffered from the war but the islands third, and smallest, ethnic community –the Sri Lankan Muslims have become the worst affected and forgotten losers in this vicious struggle.
Since the start of the separatist war Tamil Tigers planed and carried out ruthless attacks against the Muslims living in the north-eastern areas of the country including ethnic cleansing, mass killings, forcefully taking over Muslim properties, imposing various taxes, abducting Muslim youth as Tiger guerrilla cadres and others for ransom.
1990-1991 was a particularly terrible period for Muslims. In October 1990 the Tamil Tigers ordered all Muslims living in Tiger controlled northern Jaffna peninsula to leave within 48 hours or face execution. So nearly 90,000 Jaffna Muslims fled from their homes overnight. Each fleeing person was only allowed to take 300 rupees in cash (around 10 US $ then) and a few cloths and leave behind everything else they had, which subsequently the Tamil Tigers took over. These Muslims fleeing the northern peninsula were gathered in refugee camps in Putlam and Kalpity areas. These Muslim people had lived better lives in Jaffna while some had even been very successful businessmen. Even today after 15 years, around 53,000 of them still live in these refugee camps.
The same year Tamil Tigers massacred 172 Muslims praying in a Mosque in the eastern town of Kathankudy. Not stopping from these, they have since then killed many thousands of north-eastern Muslims by sporadic attacks, not to mention they have taken over Muslim peoples properties in Eastern areas under their control. So the mainly agrarian North-Eastern Muslims have been continuously suffering in the hands of the ruthless Tamil Tigers.
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Foreign and domestic Intelligence services currently indicate a growing LTTE presence and organizational and procurement structure in Malaysia, perhaps with the aim of conducting a long range war against the Sri Lankan state. The LTTE's long time logistics operative known under the name KP is known to have shifted his operations to Malaysia following deportation from Thailand following intense lobbying by Sri Lanka and interception and destruction of the organization's supply ships by the SL Navy.
Sri Lanka has already communicated the relevant intelligence to the Malaysians and their government is said to be looking into LTTE activities with renewed interest. However given the fact that the Tigers were able to operate freely in Thailand for over two decades ostensibly by using their connections in that country, Malaysia's own very influential and LTTE sympathetic tamil community can be depended upon by the terror organization to facilitate their operations without too much government intervention.
Considering this situation, Sri Lanka should reach out to the Malaysian muslim political forces and remind them of the horrendous ethnic cleansing activities carried out by the LTTE against their bretheren in Sri Lanka. By allowing the LTTE free reign on their soil, Malaysian muslims would be guilty of supporting those who committed horrible crimes against fellow muslims. It would be strategically important for the SLG to pursue this connection further.
Since the start of the separatist war Tamil Tigers planed and carried out ruthless attacks against the Muslims living in the north-eastern areas of the country including ethnic cleansing, mass killings, forcefully taking over Muslim properties, imposing various taxes, abducting Muslim youth as Tiger guerrilla cadres and others for ransom.
1990-1991 was a particularly terrible period for Muslims. In October 1990 the Tamil Tigers ordered all Muslims living in Tiger controlled northern Jaffna peninsula to leave within 48 hours or face execution. So nearly 90,000 Jaffna Muslims fled from their homes overnight. Each fleeing person was only allowed to take 300 rupees in cash (around 10 US $ then) and a few cloths and leave behind everything else they had, which subsequently the Tamil Tigers took over. These Muslims fleeing the northern peninsula were gathered in refugee camps in Putlam and Kalpity areas. These Muslim people had lived better lives in Jaffna while some had even been very successful businessmen. Even today after 15 years, around 53,000 of them still live in these refugee camps.
The same year Tamil Tigers massacred 172 Muslims praying in a Mosque in the eastern town of Kathankudy. Not stopping from these, they have since then killed many thousands of north-eastern Muslims by sporadic attacks, not to mention they have taken over Muslim peoples properties in Eastern areas under their control. So the mainly agrarian North-Eastern Muslims have been continuously suffering in the hands of the ruthless Tamil Tigers.
http://1muslimnation.wordpress.com/category/sri-lanka/
Foreign and domestic Intelligence services currently indicate a growing LTTE presence and organizational and procurement structure in Malaysia, perhaps with the aim of conducting a long range war against the Sri Lankan state. The LTTE's long time logistics operative known under the name KP is known to have shifted his operations to Malaysia following deportation from Thailand following intense lobbying by Sri Lanka and interception and destruction of the organization's supply ships by the SL Navy.
Sri Lanka has already communicated the relevant intelligence to the Malaysians and their government is said to be looking into LTTE activities with renewed interest. However given the fact that the Tigers were able to operate freely in Thailand for over two decades ostensibly by using their connections in that country, Malaysia's own very influential and LTTE sympathetic tamil community can be depended upon by the terror organization to facilitate their operations without too much government intervention.
Considering this situation, Sri Lanka should reach out to the Malaysian muslim political forces and remind them of the horrendous ethnic cleansing activities carried out by the LTTE against their bretheren in Sri Lanka. By allowing the LTTE free reign on their soil, Malaysian muslims would be guilty of supporting those who committed horrible crimes against fellow muslims. It would be strategically important for the SLG to pursue this connection further.
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