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TORONTO -- A Toronto-based non-profit organization has been outlawed by Cabinet under the Anti-Terrorism Act, in what may signal an aggressive new approach to combating terrorist financing in Canada. The decision to add the World Tamil Movement to Canada's list of outlawed terrorist groups marks the first time Ottawa has used the anti-terrorism law to shut down a Canadian community group for ties to terrorists. Stockwell Day, the Minister of Public Safety, was expected to make the announcement in Toronto today at 1 p.m. but financial institutions were officially notified at 9 a.m. this morning by Canada's banking regulator. The directive issued by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions advised banks and insurance companies to notify the RCMP or CSIS if they hold any accounts linked to the WTM. The announcement may mark the end of the road for the WTM, which has operated in Canada since the 1980s. Earlier this year, the RCMP seized dozens of bank accounts linked to the group's officers and shut down its Montreal branch office. The Anti-Terrorism Act, passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, allows federal Cabinet to prepare a list of "entitites" whose activities are proscribed by Canadian law due to their involvement in terrorist violence. Until today's announcement, there were 40 listed entities, all of them groups directly engaged in violence, such as al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas. Although the law allows for the listing of front or support groups, Cabinet had so far refrained from doing so. Because this is a first, it is unclear what will happen next. The listing makes it illegal to financially support the group. Presumably, the WTM offices in Canada would be forced to close and cease operations. The group could also appeal the ruling. The WTM has been under close police scrutiny. Headquartered in Scarborough, Ont., the group is accused by Canadian police and intelligence of being the leading front organization for the Tigers, a separatist guerrilla group responsible for scores of terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka. RCMP national security teams have been conducting a criminal probe of the WTM since 2003, and raided its offices in Toronto and Montreal in April 2006, seizing a truckload of documents and Tigers paraphernalia. In court, RCMP officers claimed to have found evidence indicating the WTM serves as a Tigers front and has been aggressively fundraising in Canada in close concert with Tigers headquarters in Sri Lanka. Many Tamil-Canadians support the Tamil Tigers, considering them freedom fighters, but other have complained to police about the heavy-handed fundraising tactics of the WTM, which some have likened to extortion, but the group, while it admits it is sympathetic to the Tigers, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. Isolated on a small island, the Tigers are heavily dependent on outside sources of financing, which they use in part to purchase the weapons needed to prosecute a civil war that has been reignited by the collapse of a ceasefire agreement and the withdrawal of international monitors. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, have been fighting since 1983 for a separate state for Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil minority but in addition to traditional guerrilla tactics, the group has resorted to such terror tactics as suicide bombings, targeted political assassinations of leading government figures as well as the bombing of buses, trains and commercial buildings. As home to the world's largest ethnic Tamil populations, Canada has also become an important offshore base for the rebels, which control several front groups in Toronto that harness political and financial support to finance the ethnic insurgency half-a-world away. Canada outlawed the Tigers under the Anti-Terrorism Act in 2006 but fundraising and other forms of support have continued. Late last year, thousands of Tamil-Canadians converged at the Markham Fairgrounds north of Toronto to attend funeral services for S.P. Thamilselvan, the second-in- command of the LTTE, who was killed in a government air strike. Several Toronto-area Liberal MPs also attended and later defended their actions. sbell@nationalpost.com Tamil nuts.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Updated Mon. Jun. 16 2008 2:51 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff Canada has added the World Tamil Movement to its list of terrorist groups, the federal public safety minister announced Monday. The organization is accused of facilitating or participating in a terrorist activity. Government officials say the group is a front organization for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Canada, otherwise known as the Tamil Tigers. "We have to send a clear message that we do not condone this type of activity," said Stockwell Day at a press conference in Toronto. "We're partnering with other people and agencies to make sure that a group like this is not able to raise funds. "Innocent civilians in other countries have been killed by terrorist activities and those terrorist activities have been funded in part by dollars that come from Canada and we want to put a stop to that whenever we can and make sure it comes to an end," he said. The WTM was formed to support Canada's Tamil community, says the public safety minister but adds the community needs to be shielded from this organization. A news release put out by Day's office says that members of WTM canvas Tamil communities in the country asking for large donations. "Refusals to contribute often lead to threats and intimidation," the release says. Funds collected by the WTM are transferred to Sri Lankan bank accounts operated by the Tamil Tigers. "The leadership of the WTM acts at the direction of leaders of the LTTE," says the release. By putting the organization on the list, the minister says Canada helps put a dent in the finances that terrorist groups receive. The list also prevents all Canadians, either living in the country or abroad, from knowingly dealing with assets, owned or controlled by the WTM. The rule also applies to other Canadian organizations, including student groups, associated with the WTM. The minister said it's not only money that the group was funneling to the Tamil Tigers but equipment and information as well. John Thompson, a terrorism security expert, said that the WTM is well known in the Tamil community for supporting LTTE. "They often say we're here to provide relief or support to the Tamil community but everyone knows who's behind them," he told CTVs Newsnet. Thompson said many Tamils are broadly sympathetic with the idea behind the Tigers, but that the group's tactics make it difficult for others to express a difference of opinion. "As long as the WTM exists, people can't express themselves," said Thompson. Day told reporters Monday afternoon the move only emphasizes the country's position on the conflict in Sri Lanka. "We've been very clear we want to see a long-term and a durable solution to the conflict in Sri Lanka. We've been very clear to all people involved in the conflict, whether its government forces in Sri Lanka or the anti-government terrorist forces that its our position to see human rights respected and to see long-term peace established. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kd;idagf;fk; |
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