From: nish@cv1.chem.purdue.edu (Nishantha I.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: EELAM NEWS FROM DENMARK
Date: 30 Sep 92 23:54:03 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

Unread news in soc.culture.sri-lanka                      25 articles +    8 oldUnread news in soc.culture.sri-lanka                      25 articles +    8 oldIn article <BvCKCH.HCL@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, mvishnu@bcr3.uwaterloo.ca (Meenan Vishnu) writes:
|> 
|> In article <1992Sep25.180656.52382@gmuvax.gmu.edu> 2067bh@gmuvax.gmu.edu writes:
|> >
|> >AFP report from STRUER, Denmark
|> >
|> >Danish police charged seven Sri Lankans with blackmailing thousands of follow
|> >refugees in Denmark and extorting hundreds of kroners from them. The seven
|> >members of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) threatened the
|> >families of most of Denmark's 5000 refugees with kidnapping if they did not
|> >financially support the LTTE, investigating Police chief Frede Rosenberg
|> >said. Mr. Rosenberg said Tamils had actually been abducted in SriLanka because
|> >relatives living in Denmark would not pay "a ransom of 30 000 kroners (5000
|> >dollars).
|> >The blackmail was uncovered after Srilankan Tamil refugees complained to the
|> >police. Eighteen people were arrested after a six month investigation. ...
|> >
|> >... TO BE CONTINUED.
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> Some of what Prof. Jeyantha Herath has written above was indeed reported
|> by the international media about an year back.  But unfortuantely the REAL
|> truth is different.  Here is what really happened:
|> 
|> During the IPKF operation, the various Tamil organizations in different 
|> countries had a campaign to collect money from Tamil people all over the
|> world to buy the much needed arms and ammunitions to fight the IPKF.
|> The "volunteers" of these organizations went around collecting money and
|> Tamil people gave generously.  People gave their entire tax returns and
|> more.
|> 
|> It may be due to the fact that LTTE was badly losing the war with the IPKF
|> at some point in time and seemed likely that LTTE would completely
|> be liquidated by the IPKF, some of the "volunteers" thought it was pointless
|> to send the collected money to LTTE and instead decided to keep the money
|> for themselves.  In Canada,  for example, some of these "volunteers" used
|> the money to buy houses and automobiles.  The same happened in Denmark and
|> other European countries.
|> 
|> The members of Tamil Organizations, in whose names the money was collected,
|> investigated these large scale money swindling and approached the "volunteers" 
|> concerned and asked them to repay the money to the donors or give it to
|> the respective organizations.
|> 
|> These "volunteers", in order to stop the repeated requests to pay back,
|> reported to the police that they are being intimidated by some 
|> extortionist organizations.  The police arrested about 18 people in Denmark.
|> 
|> In Canada, however, the World Tamil Movement (WTM), in which name these
|> swindlers collected money, saved a lot of trouble by not requesting these
|> swindlers to pay back.  Instead they simply forgot about it. Currently,
|> the WTM requests potential donors to pay directly to their office. 
|> 
|> Meenan Vishnu


	Awright way to go Meenan,
			That settles it.I sincerely appreciate your explanation
	I mean these Danish cops are a real bunch of bozoos.I mean what the 
	hell did they do during the 6months of investigations!So these innocent
	18 should probably tell their story when the time comes for trial  
	and expose the Danish police.Boy I thought only Sri Lanka had morons
	in their police.Thanks once again for the quite credible explanation.
	Please keep up the good work.
	
				sincerely
				Nishantha
p.s.:
	 I might even consider writing a letter to the  editor or something
	  but I just want to get the facts straight.Now according to 
	 you these "victims"  were infact  the bad guys right?So 
	 what you are saying is that they got the wrong guys right? So 
	 the Danes  in fact should  have arrested the guys who claimed
	 to have been threatned rather than the guys who did the threatning!
	 (People are you folowing the story??)Oh boy what a bunch of geeks
	 these cops can some times be!!By the way just to get every thing 
	 straight why the hell did they ask for only 30000 kroners from 
	 each of these so called volunteers?I mean if the people were 
	 donating their entire tax returns etc why a fixed price of 30000
	 kroners?Surely they should have each collected more than that?
	 Or is it just that  the tamil organizations decided on a blanket
	 payment of 30000.I quite agree with the way things had been done 
	 when it comes to the collectors.I mean if they don't pay up it's
	 always fair to kidnap their relatives back in Sri-lanka right?It
	 makes perfect sense to me.In fact this could be done in other
	 parts of the world too.I mean pay up or get your old grand dad
	  yanked off back in Sri-lanka!! Way to go!!!
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