CONTENTS OF
THIS SECTION
04/06/09 |
Raw at War-Genesis of Secret Agencies in
Ancient India - Group Capt SM Hali
examines the historical capacity of Research & Analysis Wing
(RAW) of India to conduct clandestine operations |
RAW - CIA Liasion "It sounds a little like the
improbable factoids that appear on the back of breakfast
cereal packets: in the summer of 2002, the Government of
India actually paid the Central Intelligence Agency
mole in its ranks to meet his handlers in the United
States..." |
Is RAW baiting the Tamil Tigers? - Vinoj Kumar, Principal
Correspondent - 5 June 2006 |
India clawing back to Sri
Lanka's North East - M.R Narayan Swamy, 22 March 2006
"... India is slowly, patiently and with a
clear agenda finding its
way back into Sri Lanka's North East..."
more |
Pigs are Flying in Batticaloa!- Sachi Sri
Kantha , 28 July 2005 ".... the entire puppet show is being run by
the Indians (UNP, SLFP, JVP- on the Sinhalese side; Karuna,
Anandasangaree and other Tamil paramilitaries, on the Tamil
side). This is an open secret to all in Sri Lanka. |
Tsunami & the Killing of Pirapaharan! - New Delhi's RAW & its Running Dogs..
Karuna, Ram's Hindu, Lanka Truth, Asian Tribune, B.Raman, & Chandrika
Kumaratunga - a RAW commitment to truth |
The RAW Factor in Col.Karuna's Revolt - Sachi Sri Kantha, 1 April
2004 |
Keep RAW Agents out of the Tamil
Homeland in Sri Lanka
1 July 2004 |
யாழ்ப்பாணத்தில் 'றோ'வின்
கண்கள்
- New Delhi's RAW in Jaffna, 1 April 2005
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Rajiv
Gandhi's War Crimes -
நெற்றிக்கண் திறப்பினும் குற்றம் குற்றமே...
"..the Indian Army came here,
massacred innocent
Tamil civilians, raped our women and
plundered our valuables. The
acronym IPKF will always stand for Indian People Killing Force where we
are concerned.We will one day erect a memorial in the
heart of Jaffna town, in the centre of Hospital Road, in
memory of all the innocent civilians – ranging in age
from the very old past 80 to young children massacred by
the IPKF and to the women who were raped."
IPKF - Innocent People
Killing Force, Dr. T. Somasekaram ] |
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India & the Struggle for Tamil Eelam
RAW aiding paramilitary recruitment in India
[TamilNet, June 25, 2006 ]
"Inter-state relations are not governed by the
logic of morality. They were and they remain an amoral phenomenon.."
Jyotindra Nath Dixit
Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka 1985 /89, Foreign Secretary in
1991/94 and National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister of India
2004/05,
speaking in Switzerland,
February 1998
Sri
Lanka’s Army-backed Tamil paramilitaries are seeking recruits
amongst Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu, offering hefty salaries,
an
Indian news agency reported this week. The Eelam National Democratic
Liberation Front (ENDLF), an India-based paramilitary group now
operating in an anti-LTTE grouping under the Karuna Group, is
seeking recruits from refugee camps and orphanages in southern
India, an Indian website reported, citing local press reports.
The recruitment is being conducted with the
knowledge of India’s external intelligence agency, RAW (Research and
Analysis Wing), the report added. The ENDLF, reportedly headed by
Paranthan Rajan, has been recruiting cadres for the Karuna Group
(named after the renegade LTTE commander who heads it) from refugee
camps in Tamil Nadu, the website quoted local press reports as
saying.
New recruits were being offered Rs 10,000 on joining, with more
promised when they reached Sri Lanka. Rajan, a veteran paramilitary
operating in India since 1990, has also been associated with an
orphanage for Tamil refugees based in Bangalore, the website
reported. One of the charges against him is that he sent some boys
from the orphanage to participate in militant activities in Sri
Lanka.
Rajan has contacts with several anti-LTTE groups, and he himself has
been associated with several outfits, the report said.
Originally a member of the People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil
Eelam (PLOTE), Rajan left it to form Three Stars, along with
dissidents from two other groups — Tamil Eelam Liberation
Organisation (TELO) and Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation
Front (EPRLF).
In 1987, when the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was in Sri
Lanka, Rajan came into contact with RAW officials, who created ENDLF
by merging Three Stars and splinter groups of PLOTE and EPRLF. In
1990, soon after the IPKF left Sri Lanka, Rajan, along with cadres
of many other pro-Indian groups, shifted base to India. Rajan
operated out of Chennai and Bangalore.
Rajan came to Indian intelligence officials’ attention when he
joined Karuna’s group and formed a political outfit — Tamileela
Iykkia Viduthalai Munnani. Given his background, observers feel
Rajan’s alliance with Karuna might be RAW’s handiwork.
“Rajan’s unusually lengthy stay in India — he first arrived in India
in 1990 — and his unrestricted movement here, coupled with his
anti-LTTE activities on Indian soil, are seen as concrete proof that
he is a RAW agent,” the website said.
The recently defeated Jayalalithaa government had arrested Rajan in
2004 – observers feel that he misread signals following
Jayalalithaa’s crackdown on pro-LTTE groups in Tamil Nadu and felt
he could have a free run with his anti-LTTE propaganda.
But he was released at the behest of RAW, the report said.
And Rajan was said to be once again active in Tamil Nadu, even
though he had been deported last year on the condition that he would
not return to India.
Rajan landed in Bangalore a few weeks before the May 2006 Assembly
elections and shifted to Tamil Nadu after the DMK came to power in
May.
Police are not sure about Rajan’s present location. Asked if he
might be holed up in some other Indian state like Orissa, where
several pro-Indian militant leaders are believed to be hiding, an
official told the website he could comment only on the situation in
Tamil Nadu.
According to another Indian official, Rajan is currently in
Batticaloa in Sri Lanka, which happens to be Karuna Group’s main
area of operation.
The ENDLF is being used by RAW to as a rallying point of anti-LTTE
groups, the report said.
Rajan’s actions could have had RAW’s blessings as it might have had
an interest in promoting Karuna and neutralising LTTE leader
Vellupillai Pirapaharan’s appeal in Tamil Nadu, the report said.
In the wake of the April 2004 crushing of Karuna’s rebellion against
the LTTE, Sri Lanka’s military has brought a number of paramilitary
groups, including the ENDLF under one grouping to wage a campaign
against the LTTE and its supporters.
ENDLF cadres based in India have been rotating into Sri Lanka’s
Northeast on one-year visas issued by the Sri Lankan government to
bolster the ‘shadow war.’
The covert war of attrition that has now escalated into a
low-intensity war between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the LTTE –
which has sent over three thousand people fleeing to southern India
in the past few months.
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Is RAW baiting the Tamil Tigers - Vinoj Kumar, Principal
Correspondent- 1 July 2006
As Sri Lanka slides into war
again, PC Vinoj Kumar examines allegations that Indian intelligence
agency RAW is propping up an anti-LTTE outfit to neutralise Tiger
supremo V. Prabhakaran’s influence
War clouds are gathering over Sri Lanka — both the Sri Lankan army
and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres are mounting
attacks on each other with increasing frequency. In Tamil Nadu, the
Karunanidhi government is beginning to feel the pinch. The elite ‘Q
Branch’ of Chennai police and the Coastal Security Group personnel
have stepped up vigil to prevent infiltration of Tamil militants
sneaking into the state in the garb of refugees.
But there is trouble from unexpected quarters. A group which
supports the cause of an independent Tamil Eelam homeland in Sri
Lanka, created by India’s external intelligence agency, the Research
and Analysis Wing (RAW), has been accused of recruiting cadres for
the renegade LTTE leader Karuna from the refugee camps in Tamil
Nadu.
The group in question is the Eelam National Democratic Liberation
Front [ENDLF], headed by Paranthan Rajan, who is allegedly being
used by RAW to neutralise LTTE's influence in Tamil Nadu and serve
as a rallying point of anti-LTTE groups. Though Lankan Tamil
separatist groups in the state like Pazha Nedumaran's Tamil
Nationalist Movement (TNM) have been sounding the alarm about
ENDLF's activities for quite some time, it was a report on a Tamil
website that has prompted the Tamil Nadu government to act.
In a hard-hitting commentary, titled 'Kalaignar (Karunanidhi)
meendum thamizh inathirku throgam' (Kalaiganar betrays Tamils
again), the report said that Rajan was recruiting cadres for the
Karuna Group from refugee camps in Tamil Nadu, and that the
Karuanidhi government was a mute spectator to his activities.
According to the report, new recruits were paid Rs. 10,000 on
joining. with more promised when they reached Sri Lanka. The
Jayalithaa government had arrested Rajan in 2004 but, according to
the report, he was released at behest of RAW.
TNM sources confirmed that Rajan was active in the state, even
though he had been deported last year on the condition that he would
not return to India. In a lead article in the party's official organ
Then Seidi, published in February this year, it questioned Indian
intelligence officials' rationale in allowing Rajan to return to
India and set up base in Bangalore. "It is clear that they (Rajan
and his associates) have returned with some evil designs," the
article noted. RAW had intercepted pro-LTTE Sri Lankan MP Elaventhan
at the Chennai airport in 2004 and sent hi8m back to Sri Lanka, the
report said, because he had been deported from India earlier.
Rajan's unusually lengthy stay in India - he first arrived in India
in 1990 - and his unrestricted movement here, coupled with his
anti-LTTE groups, and he himself has been associated with several
outfits. Originally a member of the People's Liberation Organisation
of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), he left it to form Tree Stars, along with
dissidents from two other groups - Tamil Eelam Liberation
Organisation (TELO) and Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation
Front (EPRLF). In 1987, when the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF)
was in Sri Lanka, he came into contact with RAW officials, who
created ENDLF by mrerging Trhee Stars and splinter groups of PLOTE
and EPRLF. ENDLF contested the North East Prvincial Council Electins
in Sri Lanka in 1988. which was conducted under Indian supervision.
In 1990. soon after the IPKF left Sri Lanka, Rajan, along with
cadres of many other pro-Indian groups. shifted base to India. Rajan
operated out of Chennai and Bangalore.
More recently, he has been associated with an orphanage for Tamil
refugees based in Bangalore. One of the charges against him is that
he sent some boys from the orphanage to particpate in militant
activities in Sri Lanka.
Rajan came under intelligence officials' scanner when he joined
Karuna's group after the split in the LTTE, and formed a political
outfit - Tamileela Iyakkia Viduthatlai Munnani. Given his back
ground, observers feel Rajan's alliance with Karuna might be RAW's
handiwork. However, Rajan made the mistake of indulging in anti-LTTE
propaganda in Tamil Nadu, not anticipating that this would land him
behind bars. Observers feel that he misread signals following
Jayalalithaa's crackdown on pro-LTTE groups in Tamil Nadu and felt
he could have a free run with his anti-LTTE propaganda.
"His group distributed anti-LTTE pamphlets in Chennai at a pro-Eelam
meeting and pasted posters depicted (LTTE chief) Prabhakaran as
Hitler,"says the member of a Chennai-based Sri Lankan Tamil
organisation. Rajan also distribued copies of Karuna's speeches at
meetings. Rajan's actions could have had RAW's blessings, as it
might have had an interest in promoting Karuna as the mascot of
Eelam and neutralising Prabhakaran's appeal in Tamil Nadu. But the
experiment fizzled out when Tamil Nadu Police took Rajan under
custody in December 2004, fearing a repeat of a Padmanabha-type
action in the state by the LTTE. In 1990, an assassination squad,
allegedly consisting of LTTE cadres, killed EPRLF leader padmanabha
and many of his associates in Chennai.
The Jayalalithaa government took Rajan and seven other leaders under
'protective custody' supposedly apprehending danger to his life from
LTTE. Then DGP AX Alexander personally questioned all of them. Rajan
reportedly dropped names of some RAW officials, but he was sent to
the Chengalpattu special camp where Sri Lankan militants are kept.
Rajan was released in August 2005 after he promised to go back to
Sri Lanka and never return to India. But sources say that Rajan
landed in Bangalore a few weeks before the May 2006 Assembly
elections and shifted to Tamil Nadu after the DMK came to power.
State intelligence agencies however deny that Rajan is in Tamil
nadu, recruiting cadres for Karuna. "We will not allow anybody to
indulge in such activities in the state. We do not want any repeat
of the past unfortunate incidents in the state," a senior official
told TEHELKA. Besides the Rajiv Gandhi assassination, Tamil Nadu has
witnessed several other incidents involving different militant
groups. in the past. Doulas Devananda who leads the Eelam Peoples
Democratic Party (EPDP) and is currently the social services and
social welfare minister in the Rajpakse government in Sri Lanka, was
involved in a murder case in Chennai. (See Box - will be uploaded
later)
Police are not sure about Rajan's present location. Asked if he
might be holded up in some other Indian state like Orissa, where
several pro-Indian militant leaders are believed to be hiding, an
official said he could comment only on the situation in Tamil Nadu.
According to another official, Rajan is currently in Batticaloa in
Sri Lanka, which happens to be Karuna's base.
Officials insist that they will deal with all militant groups with
an even hand and not show leniency to non-LTTE groups. The Q Branch
of Chennai police is screening all Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka
before admitting them in camps. Those connected to militant groups
are detained and sent to special camps. According to an official, in
the last month, three people. including two who had undergone
training in an LTTE camp, and one former EPRLF cadre, have been sent
to the special camp.
With the situation in Sri Lanka worsening, the inflex of refugees is
likely to increase in the coming days. A senior journalist speaking
from Colombo told TEHELKA,"The low intensity war between the Tighers
and the government troops is showing signs of escalating into a
full-scale war. Unlike in the past, the current violence continues
unabated and every day one incident or another is being reported.
Over 700 people, including LTTE cadres, government soldiers, and
civilians have been killed since January. Violence at such a scale
has not been reported since the 2002 ceasefire."
The Sri Lankan government feels encouraged following the European
Union's ban on LTTE and the hawks in the Rajapakse government are
confident that a military solution is possible. The mood in the LTTE
camp is not any different. Recent speeches by top LTTE leaders
indicate the outfit's combative stance. The Tigers are now talking
about the strategies they would adopt in the event of a war, a
departure from the past when top leaders refrained from belligerent
talk. Addressing a passing-out parade of Makkal Padai (People's
Army) - the LTTE's civilian defence force - earlier this month at
Puthukudiyiruppu in Mullaitheevu, Colonel Soosai, special commander
of the Sea Tigers (LTTE's naval wing) said, "It (the war) will be a
blitzkrieg, a sudden and swift simultaneous attack to redeem out
entire Tamil homeland in the north and east. We would not adopt the
earlier method of fighting to redeem it inch by inch."
The LTTE has built up its strength during the ceasefire period. The
present strength of the outfit is estimated at around 20,000. In
2004, then Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga admitted that
the LTTE had grown from about 7,000 cadres to 18,000 since the
ceasefire in 2002.
Meanwhile, in Tamil Nadu, political parties are watching
developments in Sri Lanka with concern. A meeting of the Democratic
Progressive Alliance on June 19 led by Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi
called upon the Centre to take necessary steps to restore peace in
Sri Lanka. the outbreak of a full-fledged war would trigger a
massive exodus of Tamil refugees into the state - something the
Karunanidhi government could do without. [THE END] |
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