A response to Shanaka Jayasekera's allegations against TRO, K Reggi in UK and others.

This interview was given to the Sri Lankan Government controlled Sunday Observer newspaper. There is no media freedom in Sri Lanka and many journalists have been killed or have fled the country due to persecution by the Sri Lankan government.

Mr Jayasekara is an ethnic Sinhalese which is the majority and ruling race in Sri Lanka. In the interview, Mr Jayasekara, makes statements which seem to be baseless and biased towards his former homeland. I would be very interested in finding out the basis for the following quote: “The only figure that I have come across is that TRO leader Regi, now living in the UK has over US$50 million of TRO funds under his control. The LTTE is still having six single engine aircraft packed in crates in a warehouse in Asmara, Eretria. It is also believed that one sea plane allegedly purchased with LTTE funds is running charter flights in the Fiji Islands”.

Mr Jayasekara further states, “….. all Tamil boat people should be sent back” despite the UNHCR report stating that certain groups of Tamils are still at risk. It is disappointing that he makes comment on a report that he obviously has not read thoroughly. The Edmund Rice Centre director Phil Glendenning, who returned from Sri Lanka in April, said at least nine asylum seekers returned to the country by Australia's previous government were killed while those sent back in the past year have been detained and some assaulted.
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Tamillatest.com comment as follows.

The response is valid.
But TRO people like Regi, Chandru Pararajasingam, Naren, Sreethran of TRO USA, (owner of Tamil Net and
Tamils Against Genocide, Representative of TECH Vanni in USA together with Manoranjan have not accounted
for funds collected by TRO for many years from at least 30 countries.
TRO and the newly found ITRO continues to collect funds even after the end of the war in May 2009.
There are other details of TRO accounting and expenditure flaws which best kept unpublished for the
time being. So are so many failed business investments of TRO, purchases of  vehicles between 2005 and 2006,
exceeding millions of dollars.
Shanaka Jayasekera is an academic looking to compete with the other academic from Singapore Rohan Gunaratna
peddling their falsely claimed expertise in "terrorism" for financial gain and acclaim. This is the newest industry
related to Sri Lanka after the NGO business. There are no poor NGO's in Sri Lanka which the Tsunami in 2004,
and the civil war gave them a huge boost. They also portray themselves as "Think Tanks" for peace and reconciliation.
Unfortunately, they are totally out of touch with the people.
It has become a lucrative business!


http://www.catholicleader.com.au/news.php/top-stories/sri-lankans-facing-dangerous-return_57310.



August 30, 2010 1:34 PM