If the Sinhala nation and those countries which support it consider that the Tamil peoples’ freedom struggle has been defeated through the capture..!

KP appointed as head of LTTE

Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias Kumaran Pathmanathan, alias ‘KP’ who has had a long career as an international arms procurer and fund raiser for the LTTE has been officially appointed the head of the LTTE, the Indian media quoted the LTTE as saying.
A statement from the ‘headquarters’ of the LTTE, located in an unidentified place, said on Tuesday, that the Executive Committee wished to ‘officially’ announce that Pathmanathan, who had earlier been nominated as Head of International Relations by the late Prabhakaran, would from now on lead the Tamils’ `freedom struggle’ as per the vision of the `esteemed national leader’.

Pathmanathan was the chief funds and arms procurer of the LTTE before he was appointed the LTTE’s international diplomatic plenipotentiary by Prabhakaran.

He was mostly abroad travelling under a variety of fake passports. INTERPOL had issued five notices against him.

The Indian Central Bureau of Investigation has been wanting to question him on his role in the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

The Sri Lankan government has been pressing governments overseas to arrest KP when cited, and hand him over to it for legal action.

“The Eelam Tamil people are in the midst of a critical and sorrowful period in the history of the struggle for freedom of our nation, Tamil Eelam.

No one can deny the fact that we have experienced massive and irreparable losses, losses we would not accept even in our worst dreams,” the LTTE’s statement said.

It was the Tamils’ ‘historic duty’ to rise up and fight for their `legitimate’ rights, it said. But like all liberation struggles, the LTTE had decided to `modify’ the form and strategies of the struggle according to the times and the exigencies of the situation.

However, the ‘Honourable Mr. Veluppillai Prabhakaran shall remain forever, the leader of Tamil Nationhood’, the statement said.

The decision to change track was taken after a `long, elaborate and deep’ process consultation among the members of the LTTE, the fighting cadre, and representatives of the Tamil Diaspora.

The statement said that the LTTE had set up a headquarters, but did not disclose the place. It had also set up sector-based working groups and an executive committee to take the struggle forward `vigorously’. The LTTE, it went on, was also looking for `wise counsel’ from the general Tamil public.

In conclusion, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said: “ If the Sinhala nation and those countries which support it consider that the Tamil peoples’ freedom struggle has been defeated through the capture of the historical homeland areas of the Tamil people and the massacre of thousands of Tamil civilians, we shall consider that an illusion.”

“Let is demonstrate to the world through our actions, that the fire of freedom awakened by our great leader V. Pirabakaran continues to burn in the hearts of all Tamils, and only a free Tamil nation has the power to extinguish it.”

(Express Buzz)