19 May 2006

Action Against LTTE's Maritime Terrorism
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
Extract: "India and the other members of the international community should be even more concerned than in the past over the medium and long-term implications of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) acquiring a capability for conventional and unconventional (terrorism-related) maritime action. [...] The time has come for India to be more proactive in this matter with a policy and action initiative at the following two levels: * LEVEL ONE: Mobilising action in the UN Security Council and other appropriate fora for freezing under the UN Security Council Resolution No.1373 against terrorism the bank accounts of all those associated with the LTTE's commercial fleet, seizure of the ships as assets of a terrorist organisation banned in many countries and arrests and prosecution of the members of the crew for working for a banned terrorist organisation. * LEVEL TWO: To constitute an international coalition against maritime terrorism in order to force the LTTE to dismantle its maritime capability through diplomatic pressure if possible and through naval action, if necessary. - b. raman."
[The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers19/paper1802.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde--at--vsnl.com)
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