NATIONAL POST OF CANADA REPORTS!!!

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Tamil Tigers trying to influence politicians

The Tamil Tigers have been waging an intensive "propaganda campaign" in Canada to win the backing of politicians, says a newly declassified intelligence report.

"The main targets of the campaign in Canada have been the expatriate Tamil population, politicians and the general public," says the report by the federal government's threat-assessment centre.

The lobby campaign aims to portray the Tigers' independence struggle as legitimate, the intelligence report says. But it calls violence "central" to the guerrillas' strategy. "As well as conventional guerrilla warfare in Sri Lanka, the LTTE uses terrorist activities to achieve its goals."

The report also says that in addition to political lobbying, behind the scenes the Tigers use more unsavory methods to advance their cause in Canada.

"The LTTE's responses to external criticism and internal dissent have included beatings, death threats and smear campaigns in Canada and elsewhere, and specific and non-specific threats of harm against Canadian citizens and residents, their businesses and possessions, and their relatives in Sri Lanka," the report says.

"Murders have occurred in other Western countries, but are not known to have occurred in Canada. Tamils who fail to support the LTTE have been labelled as 'traitors.' ... Tamil victims have been reluctant to come forward to the police with regard to these activities due to their fear of retribution."

"In Canada, the major activity of the LTTE and associated organizations has been fundraising in support of their efforts in Sri Lanka. It is estimated that 95% of the LTTE's operational revenue is generated outside Sri Lanka,"

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