COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has urged Norway to immediately handover a leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) so that he can be tried for carrying out terrorist activities in the South Asian country.
“We urge Norway to immediately handover Nediyavan to Sri Lankan authorities so that he can be tried for all his many crimes against the state of Sri Lanka and the people of Sri Lanka,” reads a letter written by the Sri Lankan nationalist party the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) chief Champika Ranawaka to the Norwegian ambassador in Colombo.
The JHU chief accused the Oslo-based LTTE’s top military leader Perinpanayagam Sivaparan alias Nediyavan of conducting terrorist activities against Sri Lanka.
Ranawaka said that the LTTE’s top military leader lives freely in Oslo, the capital of Norway. He said that recent investigations have confirmed Nediyavan’s involvement in attempts to revive the LTTE.
In April, the Sri Lankan government designated around 16 organisations and 422 individuals as terrorists and some of them were Norway based.
