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Sea Tigers threat to security: Indian Home Ministry
From Neville de Silva in London
The LTTE's Sea Tigers pose "yet another threat to Indian security", states the Indian Home Ministry in its latest annual report released recently. Moreover the LTTE is still using Tamil Nadu as a base for smuggling essential items such as petrol and diesel besides drugs, the ministry says.

The LTTE's insistence on recognition of Sea Tigers as a separate unit by the Sri Lanka Government threatens Indian security, the report states. The Home Ministry states that despite the current peace process, the LTTE is yet to give up violence as a means to achieve its goal of establishing a separate homeland for Tamils.

In its Annual Report 2004-2005 released recently, the Home Ministry says that "it is well known that the LTTE Intelligence Wing maintains exhaustive data on personalities who are opposed to the outfit's ideology for engineering their assassinations, if considered necessary."

The report however does not state whether the personalities referred to are Indian citizens or Sri Lankan or both. Under the section titled "Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam", the Home Ministry report made available to this correspondent by diplomatic sources in London, says that "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 terrorist organisations in the world which has sympathisers, supporters and agents on Indian soil."

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