Normally, in the business world, if you are a CEO of a publicly trading company and lied to boost your stock you will end up in jail. But in the Tamil Tiger industry it is different; they will treat you like a hero. Not only that you will gain lots of wealth as well.
Just take a look at and see how much money they have earned from the recent wave of Sri Lanka bashing. Forget about all the foreign trips and speech requests; received by the director of the Channel 4 film. How about Channel 4 earnings from it? How about all of a sudden, NGO reports on Sri Lanka such as recent ICG report; timed to be published into to this occasion. How much do you think they earned from the report?
It seems that Sri Lanka is an unforgettable moneymaking machine for some international and local NGOs seems to be acting as franchises of the main “Tamil Tiger” Industry. Because they also depend on propaganda pictures and videos and speeches made public by the “Industry”. Shamefully, some NGOs use this Tamil Tiger propaganda material without even testing or verifying the accuracy of the item. They publish these reports and make money.
According to “The Island” (News paper) Three (3) Sri Lankan NGOs namely Centre for Policy Alternatives, National Peace Council and Transparency International Sri Lanka, all of whom are franchised partners of the “Tamil Tiger” industry, received Rs.618.33 Million between 2008 and 2010.
These donations came, according to “The Island”, Meyers Norris Penny Ltd RM (Canada), Canadian International Development Agency, Berghof Foundation (Germany), Facilitating Local Initiatives for Conflict Transformation (Germany), Stichting Cordaid (The Netherlands), Norwegian Embassy, Commission Des Communautes (Norway), ICT for Peace Foundation (Switzerland), Dep. F. Auswaert, Angelegenheiten (Switzerland), Swedish Embassy, Swedish International Development Agency, Goldman Sachs Grant (UK), Minority Rights GRP Ltd BCA (UK), European Commission, Transparency International Division (UK), Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (UK), European Union, Diakonia (US), Forum of Federations/Forum Des (US), International Media Support (US), the Ford Foundation (US), Fredskorpset Bergen (US), National Endowment for Democracy (US), Partnership for Transparency Fund (US) and Academy for Educational Development (US).
In Canada, as I remember in 2010, one of our friends at a Canadian Parliamentary Committee hearing challenged the Canadian Government to show if a penny has gone to the suffering people in Sri Lanka from the money the government of Canada donated in the previous year (2009) on Sri Lanka. Canadian government didn’t take the challenge, had tight lips as they knew the money supposed to be spent in Sri Lanka were spent on administration work of Ottawa office in one of the big Canadian NGOs.
Just take a look at and see how much money they have earned from the recent wave of Sri Lanka bashing. Forget about all the foreign trips and speech requests; received by the director of the Channel 4 film. How about Channel 4 earnings from it? How about all of a sudden, NGO reports on Sri Lanka such as recent ICG report; timed to be published into to this occasion. How much do you think they earned from the report?
It seems that Sri Lanka is an unforgettable moneymaking machine for some international and local NGOs seems to be acting as franchises of the main “Tamil Tiger” Industry. Because they also depend on propaganda pictures and videos and speeches made public by the “Industry”. Shamefully, some NGOs use this Tamil Tiger propaganda material without even testing or verifying the accuracy of the item. They publish these reports and make money.
According to “The Island” (News paper) Three (3) Sri Lankan NGOs namely Centre for Policy Alternatives, National Peace Council and Transparency International Sri Lanka, all of whom are franchised partners of the “Tamil Tiger” industry, received Rs.618.33 Million between 2008 and 2010.
These donations came, according to “The Island”, Meyers Norris Penny Ltd RM (Canada), Canadian International Development Agency, Berghof Foundation (Germany), Facilitating Local Initiatives for Conflict Transformation (Germany), Stichting Cordaid (The Netherlands), Norwegian Embassy, Commission Des Communautes (Norway), ICT for Peace Foundation (Switzerland), Dep. F. Auswaert, Angelegenheiten (Switzerland), Swedish Embassy, Swedish International Development Agency, Goldman Sachs Grant (UK), Minority Rights GRP Ltd BCA (UK), European Commission, Transparency International Division (UK), Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (UK), European Union, Diakonia (US), Forum of Federations/Forum Des (US), International Media Support (US), the Ford Foundation (US), Fredskorpset Bergen (US), National Endowment for Democracy (US), Partnership for Transparency Fund (US) and Academy for Educational Development (US).
In Canada, as I remember in 2010, one of our friends at a Canadian Parliamentary Committee hearing challenged the Canadian Government to show if a penny has gone to the suffering people in Sri Lanka from the money the government of Canada donated in the previous year (2009) on Sri Lanka. Canadian government didn’t take the challenge, had tight lips as they knew the money supposed to be spent in Sri Lanka were spent on administration work of Ottawa office in one of the big Canadian NGOs.
Did anyone thought about timely arrival of refugee ship to Indonesia, heading either towards Australia or Canada? How much do you think the human smuggling branch of the “Tamil Tiger” industry charged for each person in that ship? With regards to Canada There are set of lawyers and some local Tamil organizations happen to know beforehand and they happened to be in Vancouver each time these ships arrived in Vancouver, British Colombia. These are just some the major events but there are more franchised events happening every corners of the world where ever the Tamil Tiger Diaspora exists. It almost becomes a pattern.
This is how it works. First, the industry manipulates the media (and the industry and media both earn money), then NGOs come in and issue reports (and make money), then comes “industry” back again and bring the ship (make money again).
As long as this “Tamil Tiger industry; exists Sri Lankans can expect more and more smear campaigns coming out from affiliated media and timely support from different “Tamil Tiger” franchises. It’s time to fight all these, for the sake of all Sri Lankans who suffered from the clutches of terrorism for thirty long years.
