The news is old but this is how things went down in SL and how the BIF was directly supporting the separatists
As it did then, and as it does even today, it has deep implications for the Indian security apparatus and the Indian state
this is also how the separatist movement in TN is being run by the dravidians and the BIF behind them
Sri Lanka accuses Oslo envoy Erik Solheim of financing Tamil Tigers (2014) https://scmp.com/news/asia/article/1641 ... ce=Twitter
Is this you, @ErikSolheim? Looks like you were a very naughty boy
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/ ... ce=Twitter
Published: 5:15am, 17 Nov, 2014
Sri Lanka's president has accused a top Norwegian envoy of covertly financing the island's separatist Tamil Tigers during peace talks ahead of a military campaign that crushed the rebels in 2009.
President Mahinda Rajapakse told a public rally on Saturday that he wanted Oslo to probe the role of Erik Solheim, a former Norwegian international development minister and a peace envoy to Sri Lanka.
Solheim failed to secure a peace deal despite arranging a truce which broke down in April 2006. Three years later, Sri Lankan forces extinguished the separatist campaign in a controversial military campaign.
Rajapakse in his address, a copy of which was obtained from his office, said Solheim gave money to the Tigers even while peace moves were under way.
Solheim, a key figure who led Norwegian peace efforts between 1999 and 2006, recently announced his willingness to give evidence before any international tribunal investigating Sri Lanka's war record.
Sri Lanka crushed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by May 2009 in a massive military operation that also triggered allegations that troops killed up to 40,000 Tamil civilians, a charge Colombo denies.
"Solheim told me that our forces will never be able to defeat the LTTE. He said [leader Velupillai] Prabhakaran is a very very clear man. A military genius," Rajapakse said. "Today Solheim is trying to jump up and give evidence against us. The Norwegian government should investigate his conduct. We have evidence of him giving money to the LTTE. We are ready to share that evidence."
Solheim was not immediately available for comment.