Police in London are searching for P. Nedumaran, head of the World Tamil Movement (WTM), who had slipped into UK to participate in functions organized by the Tamil Tigers. The WTM is a front organisation of the Tamil Tigers and it is learnt that Nedumaran, who had been jailed in India for his pro-Tiger activities, was instructed by Velupillai Prabhakaran to join the Tamil Tiger agents in their separatist campaigns in Europe.
Police in London want him for questioning. But it appears that Nedumaran had slipped out of London. Police sources, however, are of the view he is still in London.
P. Nedumaran, the South Indian Tamil politician who is one of the leading heads of the Tiger movement in Tamil Nadu, is a close political ally of Prabhakaran and is known to be actively engaged in Tiger activities in India. In one of the meetings held in London, he has urged the Tamil diaspora in the west to liberally contribute funds to Tamil Tigers. He has argued that the Tigers are urgently in need of funds to purchase military hardware to fight the final battle against the Sri Lanka Government.
The mission assigned to him by Prabhakaran is to generate more funds for the Tamil Tigers and to propagate the politics of the Tigers. He is known to be a popular agitator and a propagandist with an ability to rouse communal hatred.
According to available information he had participated in a couple of public functions in London and later entered Switzerland to participate in the Tiger protest march in front of the United Nations office building. He had also joined the Tigers’ protest in which the LTTE flag was hoisted in front of the UN building as part of their propaganda campaign.
After that he had returned to London it was initially reported as he was staying with Daya Idaikadar. This was further confirmed when he contacted a representative of the EROS.
According to some sources Nedumaran is residing in London with the Tiger agents in UK in a secret location in London and has met up with N. Seevaratnam, the ousted Chairman of the Sivayogam Trust, Dr. Sathiyamoorthy of White Pigeon, Velupillai Kuhanendran, a Consultant working for Kingston Council and the Ravi Sundaralingam alias Kudambi Ravi (who claims to run EROS) and several others.
Nedumaran has been arrested in Tamil Nadu, India on several occasions over his links with the LTTE. Once he was smuggled into Sri Lanka and Tiger leader V. Prabhakaran personally awarded one of the Tiger honours for services rendered.
UK authorities are investigating as to how he obtained a visa and on what pretext. It is also not known how the Home Office which denied a visa to the leader of TELO, Selvam Adaikalanathan when he tried to visit the UK had agreed to issue a visa to Nedumaran.
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