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EC to step up anti-terrorist efforts against LTTE
COLOMBO. Feb 6: The European Community (EC) will step up anti-terrorist efforts against Tamil rebels, especially surveillance of their offices in Europe, following last week's suicide bombing attack in Colombo, an official said on Tuesday, reports AP.
"The LTTE (rebels) have achieved nothing but discredited themselves and their own cause a lot with this terrorist action." Francine Henrich, the New Delhi-based European Union ambassador to South Asia, toid reporters.
There is some indication that the European mafia Is backing the Tamil tigers and that the separatists are involved in drug-running, she said. Tamil rebel supporters maintain offices in many European cities. Including London. Paris and Geneva.
On Wednesday, a suicide bomber rammed a truck filled with hundreds of kilograms (pounds) of explosives into the Central Bank, killing at least 82 people and destroying several buildings.
The EU is considering providing aid to rebuild the
capital of Colombo's devastated business district, said Mrs. Henrich, who met with President Chandrika Ku-maratunga during her visit to the Sri Lankan capital this week.
"We are reinforcing more and more the linkage between our anti-terrorist efforts, especially surveillance of LTTE offices In Europe," said Mrs. Henrich. This bombing has hurt European interests," including foreign companies that operate in Colombo.
The Tamil rebels are fighting for a homeland in the north and east for minority Tamils who claim discrimination by the majority Sinhalese, who control the government and the military. More than 40.000 people have been killed in the fighting since 1983.
Reuter adds, the European Commission's envoy to South Asia said today there was "some Indication" that organised crime waa backing SnLanka's Tamil Tiger guerillas
Francine Henrich, stress-
ing the European Union's solidarity with Colombo's efforts to stem the rebels' separatist campaign, also said there were indications the guerillas were Involved in drug-running in Europe.
There is some indication of the mafia backing the LTTE," she said, adding that there was also evidence of drug running.
Henrich was speaking to reporters after a meeting with Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadlrgamar. She was due to meet President Chan-
drika Bandaranaike Ku-maratunga later in the day.
She said police forces in member states of the European Union had cells of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) under surveillance but was unable to given details of action.
The rebels, fighting for a homeland in the north and east of this tropical island, has been blamed by the government for a bomb attack on Colombo's financial district last Wednesday which killed more than 80 people and wounded more than 1.300.