Vinayagam emerges in Europe as new Chief of LTTE
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Writing in these columns last week about the state of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) overseas network I noted that "the Tiger and pro-tiger structures abroad can be broadly classified into two categories". The first category is the group consisting of organizations that are either fronts or sympathetic to the LTTE. This category about which I wrote extensively last week, consists of organizations such as the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) headed by New York lawyer Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, Global Tamil Forum(GTF) umbrella group under Germany based Catholic clergyman Fr. SJ Emmanuel and the network consisting of LTTE branches/fronts controlled by Perinbanayagam Sivaparan alias Nediyavan living in Norway.Continue