Defending the Sri Lankan government's proscription of 15 Tamil diaspora organisations, Sri Lanka's High commissioner to Australia, Thisara Samarasinghe, said that "any organisation that acknowledges separatism or do not reject separatism in Sri Lanka is supporting terrorist ideology.”
Speaking to SBS Australia, Samarasinghe said,
“I’m not here to share my information with you, that is important. And certain action which we have shared with relevant authorities is there to justify that Sri Lankan government has enough credible evidence to suggest that,”“I will give you an example: the Australian government prosecuted one of the LTTE members in Australia with people giving evidence from Sri Lanka. So there is a mechanism available from the two governments and as for the bilateral agreements as a responsible government Australia has done that in the past. And he has been convicted and Sri Lanka support it. So a similar situation in a case-by-case basis we have cooperated very well.”
“What did the LTTE finally want to achieve? Separatism. Any organisation that acknowledges separatism or do not reject separatism in Sri Lanka is supporting terrorist ideology.”
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