Kathmandu : As we have been given to understand, Norway is an acclaimed mediator in the conflict between Tamils and Singhalese in Sri Lanka. However the fact is that the Tamils in Norway get to collect millions to the armed guerrilla organization the Tamil Tigers, LTTE.

In Great Britain the Tamil Tigers were this week put on the list of 21 banned terror organizations. In USA, the LTTE has been banned for more than five years. To collect funds for them is prohibited in both these countries writes Tor Arne Anderson for the Aftenposten,a weekly newspaper dated 05.04.01. The details of which are printed below.

The same organization gets huge money-gifts in Norway every year, and no one does any thing to stop it. Here this has been considered perfectly legal.

“One million NOK are collected in every year and sent to LTTE in Sri Lanka” Rajah Chelliah estimated in 1995. At that time he was spokesman for the Tamil Coordination Committee (TCC) in Norway. Now he is a journalist in NRK’s Mirgrapolis program. In 1995 he had no scruples about supporting the armed fight is Sri Lanka financially. Now he won’t give an interview about the LTTE,”because he is no longer a spokesman for the Tamil Coordination Committee”.