Thus in India, a person cannot support or even speak on behalf of a terrorist organisation. We can visualise how LTTE sympathisers, International Media, NGOs, etc., would have reacted if Sri Lanka had passed an Act in Parliament like the NSA. Compared to the reaction in India, some countries, Peace Agencies and Human Rights Authorities, hold the view that Sri Lanka should allow safe passage to the terrorists who are waging war on a legitimate government.

In contrast to the Indian approach to terrorism and the LTTE, there have been reports of Malaysia becoming a breeding ground for the LTTE. The main ethnic groups in Malaysia are Malay (50.4%), Chinese (23.7%), Indigenous (11%) and Indian (8.1%). The common spoken languages are Bhasa Malay, Chinese and Tamil. Thus among the 8.1 per cent Tamil speaking Indians, there is no doubt there are LTTE sympathisers.

According to current movements of the LTTE and its supporters, there is a strong suspicion that the LTTE is already having a foothold in Malaysia. The Island on 16th March, reported of a LTTE build up in Malaysia and that it had become a gathering point for LTTE operatives. According to this, the base had been set up by a LTTE leader named K. Pathmanathan who had been involved in procuring arms for the LTTE and smuggling them to Sri Lanka. So while India and some countries are tightening the screws on the Tigers, it appears that Malaysia is opening the doors to the LTTE, banned in several countries.

With the Tigers sandwiched between the security forces and the coast line and India being out of bounds for the LTTE there is every possibility that the Tigers are casting their net over new territory for clandestine operations.

The news about the LTTE perched in Malaysia is worrying because Malaysia could become the escape route for Prabakaran and LTTE leaders now taking cover behind the old and the feeble civilians as the young had been made to combat the war. The beleaguered Tigers are now not sparing even the UN workers as some have already been forcibly conscripted to fight for the Tigers. The irony is that with all this brutal terror brought to civilians, the Human Rights Custodians, Peace Activists and the International media paint the Tigers as ‘angels’ and depend on the Tamil Web for information and for writing reports!