LTTE a threat to India's national security - Home Ministry
 

FROM UPALI Rupasinghe in New Delhi

THE first annual report of India's Home Ministry under Shivraj Patil has drawn attention to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a threat to India's national security.

"The Asian Age" quoting the annual report of the Home Ministry (2004-2005), tabled in Parliament during the current Budget Session said the LTTE continues to be an extremely potent, most lethal and well organised terrorist force in Sri Lanka and has strong connections in Tamil Nadu and certain pockets of southern India.

"The organisation assiduously cultivates the Tamil chauvinist elements who are inspired by the Tamil Eelam concept of a separate Tamil Nadu, i.e. secession from India.

The LTTE, by carrying out several successful suicide killing missions in Sri Lanka and one in India, has emerged as one of the deadliest organisations in the world, which has sympathisers, supporters and agents on Indian soil," the new report states.

According to the newspaper, the current report says: "The LTTE's insistence on recognition of "Sea Tigers" as separate unit by the Sri Lankan government poses yet another threat to Indian security".

The last report (2003-2004) presented by former Home Minister, Lal Krishna Advani had only devoted a section on the rehabilitation of Sri Lankan refugees.