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UNDP involved in bogus project
sites to funnel money into terrorists in Sri Lanka
The Sri Lankan government claimed today they found evidence to suggest
that the International Organisations like UNDP are involved in fraudulent
development scheme in the terrorist held territories to fund the terrorist
outfit.
Recently Sri Lankan Troops came across this UNDP project site that
supposed to have initiated for development of Wanni civilians at Kiranchchi,
but it is only a primitive cattle shed, a name sake project office where
the actual funds may have been used by the LTTE for its own purposes.
"Can such construction projects bring development to any community
in the world?" Security forces have come across many similar projects
that may have hoodwinked its main donors, funding a terrorist outfit.
Concerns arise about the mode of operandi of such organisations as authorities
responsible are bond to justify themselves.
When UNDP initiates a project for development of Wanni civilians, terrorist
organisation decides who works for the project, and these aid organisations
are persuaded, or coerced, to do what the terrorists want.
The families of those who get UNDP jobs via the LTTE, are obliged to
provide one or more teenage or adult men or women for the terrorist
combat units, and these "volunteers" are expected to be diligent
soldiers, or else their families will suffer, the respected military
website Strategy Page said yesterday(Nov 20).
Major concerns have arisen among defence and humanitarian aid circles
following a startling revelation made by the security forces now operating
deep inside LTTE territory in Kilinochchi. The findings have given cause
for reasonable suspicions of the sort of 'humanitarian' activities conducted
by some famed INGOs for years in the non-liberated Wanni region.
According to available evidence, it appears that the local propaganda
newspapers published by the LTTE carried advertisements from international
aid and relief organizations such as the ICRC, Save the Children and
the Danish Refugee Council for vacancies in their organizations, alongside
LTTE obituaries for its terrorist cadres, in the Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu
districts.
"We are greatly concerned with this as the LTTE might have used
the INGOs to shield its recruitment drive and lure youth for interviews
and later to be abducted in due course" a defence observer said.
The positions advertised by the ICRC, Save the Children and Danish
Refugee Council are for: Field officer, Project officer and Radio operators
in Kilinochchi.
Defence analysts are not ruling out the possibility that some agents
or individual members of these organizations, that are supportive of
the LTTE, having these advertisements placed, in order to both attract
youth to the dwindling LTTE cadres, and also funding the terrorist outfit
either locally or abroad through for these advertisements.
One such analyst and observer of current developments and activities
of INGOs and NGOs said this matter required a thorough investigation
by the authorities concerned, and explanations from these organizations.
"What may unravel as troops surge further into LTTE territory
might be more interesting, he said adding, no wonder the terrorists
are furious with the military domination in fear of more revelations
that would surely put these agencies on the spotlight and wanted for
'explanations", and "clarifications" he further said.
Recently the government took pro-active measures to relocate INGOs
and many aid agencies in safe quarters in Vavuniya, following clear
assessments obtained of the possible danger to workers of these organizations
by the LTTE. The government decision has minimized collateral damage
and denied LTTE 'aid canopies' which it had used on many an occasions
to divert aerial attacks.
Earlier, it was found that LTTE terrorists have taken heavy earth moving
vehicles, trucks, tractors and several land cruiser jeeps from the Norwegian
Peoples Aid (NPA) in Kilinochchi, which was reported to the defence
authorities much later, when it was said these were taken forcibly.
The LTTE obituary notices for its cadres and the INGO advertisements
for vacancies are published below.
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