World Tamil Movement

Sri Lanka's terrorist Tamil Tigers control the Montreal-based World Tamil Movement as one of their "foreign branches," in charge of raising funds for the war effort and spreading propaganda, according to documents seized by the RCMP.

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In Ottawa, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney declined to confirm receipt of a letter claiming associates of the outlawed World Tamil Movement had infiltrated the Conservative party - which banned the movement as the Tigers' Canadian front in 2008 - but said all such complaints are investigated.

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The new body was steered by Nehru Gunaratnam, a former spokesman from the World Tamil Movement, which the federal government banned as a Tiger front in 2008.

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The Tigers were outlawed in 2006, and the World Tamil Movement's offices were raided by the RCMP shortly after that.

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The Globe earlier reported that Toronto-area Tory contender Shan Thayaparan has ties to a group built from remnants of the World Tamil Movement, which was banned as a Canadian front for the Tamil Tigers, a violent separatist group in Sri Lanka.

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The programs Mr. Paranchothy has hosted on Canadian Multicultural Radio and Tamil Vision International are known for uncritical coverage of the Tigers, and for their promotion of the National Council of Canadian Tamils NCCT, a new group guided into being by Nehru Gunaratnam, a former World Tamil Movement spokesman and prominent speaker at events honouring dead Tiger insurgents.

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The Globe earlier reported that Toronto-area Tory contender Shan Thayaparan has ties to a group built from remnants of the World Tamil Movement, which was banned as a Canadian front for the Tamil Tigers, a violent separatist group in Sri Lanka.

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When Mr. Thambithurai was charged two years ago, his lawyer, Richard Peck, said his client was actually raising funds for the World Tamil Movement, which was not banned in Canada.

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Sri Lankan immigrant Prapaharan Thambithurai, who is now a Canadian Canadian citizen, acknowledged raising money from Tamil immigrants for the World Tamil Movement, but admitted knowing that some of the money would end up funding the Tamil Tigers.

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Canada put the World Tamil Movement on its list of terrorist organizations in June 2008 after Thambithurai was arrested.

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