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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7150150" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://www.dailymirror.lk/images/nadarajah.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A political party in London is under investigation over its links with  the LTTE and has been removed from the register by the Electoral  Commission, a London online newspaper reported today.The Electoral Commission has removed the People’s Front of Liberation  Tigers (PFLT) from its register while it investigates its links to the  Sri Lankan terrorist group the Tamil Tigers, the Croydon Guardian  reported. Group leader Nadarajah Balasubramaniam, 69, plans to field candidates  from his party in upcoming council and national elections, despite the  Tigers being listed as a proscribed party under the Terrorism Act. In an exclusive interview with the Croydon Guardian Mr Balasubramaniam,  who calls himself Bala, defended the Tigers’ use of suicide bombing. The former post office clerk from Thornton Heath said he chose Lombard  Business Park in Purley Way for his party’s base as it had 24-hour  security. Mr Balasubramaniam hopes holding debates will raise awareness about the  genocide he said occurred when Sri Lankan troops wiped out the Tamil  Tiger army last year. He said: “The arguments are all in our favour – the Tigers are real  freedom fighters and it is wrong to brand them as terrorists.” The Tamil Tigers became notorious for suicide bombings, recruiting child  soldiers and massacring civilians during more than 30 years of civil  war, until they were defeated by the Sri Lankan army last May. Mr Balasubramaniam said he had been involved with the Tamil struggle for  a separate state in the north and east of Sri Lanka since he was 15,  but said he had never thrown a bomb or taken part in violence. He said: “I don’t know if we will win any seats but we are in a good  position to get our message across. “The Tamil Tigers were accepted by the people. Even the suicide bombings  were accepted by the public. Those pictures of children with guns were  just propaganda. “Boys voluntarily came and joined the Tigers, but they were just given  an education.” A spokesman for the Electoral Commission, which is in charge of  registering political parties in the UK said: “The group was registered  with us as a political party on February 10 this year. “On March 19 we were made aware of comments in the press attributed to  the party leader, saying it was a continuation of the Liberation Tigers  of Tamil Eelam, a proscribed organisation. “We have temporarily removed them from the register while we investigate  this.”dailymirror</blockquote>

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