Pro LTTE diaspora tried to hoodwink the Australians:

Bare-faced lies exposed

Is Meena Navarangi Krishnamoorthy an unfortunate woman among thousands, who were trapped in the LTTE’s hell-hole in Puthumathalan before the end battle on May 19? Did she lose her unborn baby due to shock triggered by a shell?

Until a few days ago, many Australians and also whoever who watched the documentary featured on the ‘7.30 Report’ program of Australia’s prime television channel - Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) may have had sympathy for pretty Meena when she was narrating her plight in a battle zone and also losing her baby when she was heavily pregnant due to a shell attack, which she alleged was carried out by government troops.

In the program she says she came forward to talk: I always believed in Justice - she said.

The documentary was screened a week prior to President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s visit to Australia to participate at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2011 at Perth. The intention was to fix the government again for alleged war crimes and this was clear through a chain of activities taken by the pro-LTTE groups in Australia.

The Australian media, especially the Sydney Morning Herald and ABC, were in a frenzy, 14 days before the CHOGM lobbying against Sri Lanka. The first was the report handed over by John Dowd, the President of the International Commission of Jurists, Australia (ICJA ) against Sri Lanka to the Australian Police chief to investigate and bring about charges against the Sri Lankan President for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Dowd prepared the report mainly based on evidence given by Meena who lied by saying that she went to Sri Lanka to work in an orphanages in the Wanni.

The case filed on war crimes charges by engineer Arunachalam Jegatheeswaran, who claimed he was in Puthumathalan, the last stretch of land under LTTE domination before the end battle in May 2009, against President Rajapaksa. The case filed by the Melbourne magistrates court was rejected by Attorney General Robert McClelland who said he would be in breach of international laws which provide immunity to heads of diplomatic missions if he allowed the case to go ahead.

The next was the documentary by ABC. Meena was the main character in the program.

Jegatheeshwaran

Kuveran, Meena's husbnnd

With Sri Lankan military intelligence digging into her life in the Wanni, the facts she revealed to the international audience have surfaced as absolute lies. She is not an innocent Tamil woman as she acted in the documentary but has been identified as a hardcore LTTE cadre trying to fix the Sri Lankan military for war crimes.

The true face of those who tell about their ‘pathetic’ experiences in the documentary have been found by intelligence sources and there is credible evidence proving that they are not innocent civilians but well trained LTTE cadres.

‘Eelanadi’, was her LTTE name. Meena, who went to Australia with her parents as an asylum seeker, returned to Sri Lanka during in 2004 to join the Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO), which was formed by the LTTE to appoint their youth leaders to carry out their propaganda and fund raising abroad.

Taking the opportunity of the ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE, many youth studying and working abroad arrived in Sri Lanka in 2004 to join the LTTE to represent the outfit in their countries. They met the Head of the LTTE’s international propaganda unit Veerakulasingham Manivannan alias Castro who formed the TYO to recruit youth between the ages of 18 to 30 years.

Presently she is the coordinator of the TYO in Australia.

As the LTTE leader wanted every member of the TYO to be given weapons training they underwent military training and were educated on how to raise funds. After their training session, some like her had returned to their countries but others like Meena and Vani Kumari, who is in the Channel 4 documentary, were retained in the Wanni to support the LTTE.

Navaratnam Prabhakaran, the Co-ordinator for Castro, since 2001 and until the LTTE was destroyed, had said she was a hardcore LTTE cadre attached to the LTTE’s women’s fighting unit- Malathi Regiment- and later joined the TYO the international youth wing of the LTTE that functioned under Castro.

According to Prabhakaran, Meena was the international co-ordinator of TYO, which was personally supervised by LTTE leader Prabhakaran. She handled LTTE foreign network that include propaganda, fund raising and procurement until end of the war.

Prabhakaran, who joined the LTTE in 2001 and joined Castro’s communication division as he got injured. He said the TYO was formed during d peace talks. The LTTE conducted seminars for Tamil Youth between 18 to 30 years about the international network during the months of July and December every year. Meena was called ‘Meena Akka’ by junior cadres, he said he came to the Wanni in 2004 and was recruited to the LTTE on recommendation of Castro. She was attached to the Malathi Regiment and received three months weapons training at Mulliwellivaikka. She hung a cyanide capsule and underwent battle training in Pallai for six months.

She was appointed as the women’s Affairs Co-ordinator and was sent on a short trip to Europe. Though the ABC video tried to hide her husbands’ identity, the ex-LTTE cadre identified him as Irasurathnam Dayakaran alias Kuveran, who joined the LTTE in 1993. She married him in 2007. Dayakaran joined the Castro Unit in 1994 but later given the chance to study in the Col. Kittu’s Political Science College in Jaffna, where the best hardcore cadres were selected to follow courses. Later the College was shifted to the Wanni and cadres were deployed in combat missions in addition to academic studies.

A hardcore cadre of the Sodiya Regiment, another women’s unit of the LTTE has also identified Meena as a uniformed well trained cadre, who was married to LTTE cadre Kuveran.

Kuveran, whose picture was merged to hide his identity in the ABC program, according to intelligence sources remains as a wanted terrorist. He had worked under Castro and Prabhakaran.

She had worked under Nediyavan, who also worked as an intelligence operative before he was sent abroad.

Though Meena was claiming that her unborn baby died of shock due to shelling, the doctor who treated her referring to her medical records said she was admitted to the Dr. Ponnambalam Memorial Hospital, where only LTTE cadres were treated, in September 2008. According to military intelligence, the village in which Meena was residing and the hospital that she was treated were outside the fighting areas. The doctor said she underwent surgery for still birth in October 2008 in the LTTE hospital reserved for LTTE fighters.

According to the doctor, Meena came to the hospital in October 2008 complaining that there were no movements of her baby and the doctor had advised her to remove the baby as there were no movements at all. But as she refused it she was given two weeks to decide but within a week she returned saying she wanted the baby removed. With her consent the baby was removed.

She tried to twist the story saying her baby died because of the shelling.

The LTTE Abandoned Kilinochchi in early 2009 and there were no problem in Wanni Puthumathalan, Puthukudiriyappu and Vishuamadu in December 2008 .

Meena, who was with the LTTE until the final days in Puthumathalan, sought refugee as a displaced person and lived in a welfare centre in Vavuniya but according to intelligence sources there was no trace of her going back to Australia. With no travel document of Meena Krishnamoorthy, it is believed that she had used a fake passport and identity to make her way to Australia.

Kuveran surrendered to the Sri Lanka Army in May 2009 and subsequently escaped from the Rehabilitation Centre fearing investigations of his criminal involvements with the LTTE.

Who is the so-called displaced civilian Arunachalam Jegatheeshwaran who claims that he saw how the military bombed civilian populated areas including hospitals in Puthumathalan? Is he too an ‘innocent’ civilian? The truth surfaced stronger than his lies.

Popular among his pro-LTTE circles here and abroad as ‘Jeganwaran’, according to intelligence sources, Jegatheeshwaran, was the one who built the key military infrastructure of the LTTE and also all sophisticated bunkers and well fortified mansions for Prabhakaran. Simply he was a major technical advisor tot he most ruthless terrorist in the world. The construction work for the LTTE was carried out by the General Engineering Company established by Jegadeeshwaran on the advice of LTTE leadership.

He also a technical consultant by profession and now living in Sydney had close involvement with the LTTE hierarchy since 2001. According to intelligence sources, Jegatheeshwaran was born in Sri Lanka and obtained Australian citizenship in year 1987.

He visited Sri Lanka in 2004, had first met Castro during a visit to Sri Lanka and in 2005 arrived here with an Australian based Tamil swimming coach.

Being a close aide of Castro and Prabhakaran, he finally returned to Sri Lanka in 2007 as a volunteer and remained in Kilinochchi with his relatives in LTTE administrative capital, Kilinochchi.

During the final days of the end battle, Prabhakaran had instructed Jegatheeshwaran to surrender to the military with his aged parents. It was Jegatheeshwaran who had handed over Prabhakaran’s parents at the IDP receiving centre in Vavuniya.

Not only Jegatheeshwaran but his family was close aides of the LTTE leader. Arunachalam Crishnakumar alias London Shanthan who was arrested in London on charges of arms procurement and fund raising for the LTTE terrorist outfit is said to be the younger brother of Jegatheeshwaran.

In a special operation conducted in 2007 UK Metropolitan Police from the counter Terrorism Command arrested Shanthan. He was the LTTE leader in the UK who operated under the title of President of the British Tamil Association (BTA). Twenty nine year old Goldan Lambert, Head of Finance of the BTA was also arrested with Shanthan under the UK Terrorism Act of 2000 under which bail is not allowed.

It was revealed that his daughter Brahami and son Arun are also prominent activists of the TYO of Australia.

Brami Jegatheeswaran, also known as Brami Jegan, who was a Greens Senate candidate.

Brami Jegatheeshwaran, Brami lived in the UK between 2004 and 2007 before returning to Australia as a radicalised Tamil Eelam lobbyist. She has worked for the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) and Union Aid Abroad (APHEDA) [3] . She is also linked with the Australian Tamil Congress which is a member of the Global Tamil Forum.

The next who hid her true face was Dr. Parimala Nathan Sampavi. According to intelligence sources, she is the live wire in Australian to collect fund and held the task of linking pro-LTTE Tamils there with the LTTE through the TYO.

Dr. Sampavi alias Sham is a Sri Lankan born is now a Australian citizen had obtained her citizenship on bogus asylum status. She, a medical practitioner, is a member of the Australian Tamil Congress, the strongest LTTE organisation in Australia.

The formed filled by Sampavi to join the LTTE’s TYO with her signature attesting her details is a clear evidence that she is a LTTEer whom assigned for international propaganda work.

The documents recovered from a LTTE hideout in the Wanni by the Army about those who joined the LTTE, had found Sampavi’s membership form titled ‘International Coordination Centre of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’ was issued by the LTTE International Secretariat. In the form she has declared her consent to work for the LTTE terrorist outfit and agreed to raise funds for this terrorist outfit through TYO.

Sampavi had participated in the LTTE Mahaveera (Heros) Day held on November 27, 2004 and mentioned that the freedom struggle : “ should definitely go ahead and demanding Eelam is right”.

The entire ‘drama’ in the documentary shows how pro-LTTE elements still very much alive in their ‘dream’ have twisted reality to draw international sympathy, to charge Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes.

The two reasons that the LTTE survived and grew strong for nearly three decades - one was its strong leadership and the second was the support of the pro-LTTE Tamil diaspora and LTTE’s well designed international network. There is no doubt, that the LTTE cannot revive in Sri Lanka in the future as it was completely annihilated and the Tamils, including the youth just do not want Eelam and destruction anymore.

The LTTE now operates internationally through the GTF, British Tamil Forum, World Tamil Movement, International Council for Canadian Tamils, Canadian Tamil Congress. TGTE, Tamil Eelam People’s Assembly and International Tamil Network.

The LTTE’s financial arm and propaganda divided among them and Fr. S.J. Emmanuel, the German-based Catholic priest wanted to form the Global Tamil Forum to work for their cause together and started attacking the government while based in their stronghold UK.

According to intelligence sources, he was behind the Channel 4 documentaries that accuse the government for allege war crimes and urging an international probe.

The 77-year-old Fr. Emmanuel, who was a very close aide of Prabhakaran, started his campaign against the government in Canada. Engaged in a global campaign against Sri Lanka, Fr. Emmanuel was refused entry on arrival at the Chennai International Airport, India on October 11. He was having a valid visa issued by Indian high commission in Germany but the Indian officials in Chennai airport sent him back without any valid explanation.

The sources said two weeks prior to President Rajapaksa’s visit to take part in CHOGM in Perth, Fr. Emmanuel was in Australian and they suspect he was organising the law suit against the President and others.

However, the ABC documentary is a clear evidence how the LTTE international operatives manipulate media with false information through misleading programs. The sources said responsible media like ABC need to double check their sources before tarnishing the image of a government which destroyed ruthless terrorists and rescued thousands of people who suffered under terrorism.

The information got from former LTTE cadres and also photographic evidence about Meena, Sampavi and Jegatheeshwaran has proved that the ABC was misled by the LTTE remnants.

They have missed the real story and the famous TV channel has tarnished the image of a responsible government which fought against three-decades of terror.

However, the law enforcement authorities have been informed by their Australian Counterparts on an inquiry on these Australian citizens and their involvements to propagate a banned terrorist organisation.

Meanwhile, intelligence sources said the Australian legal authorities have confirmed these individuals are sympathetic to the terror outfit.On the other hand it is pathetic that pro-LTTEers like Meena are able to mislead international legal experts like Dowd, President of the ICJA with her concocted stories.