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Legal action against commemorating LTTE – State Minister
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Legal action against commemorating LTTE – State Minister

Legal action will be taken against anyone commemorating a proscribed organization, Defence State Minister Ruwan Wijewardene said. If any person or persons have held ceremonies in the North to commemorate the LTTE organization or any of its past leaders they will be prosecuted, Wijewardene said. Wijewardene said that Prabhakaran was the leader of the LTTE which was a proscribed organization. His assistants were also terrorists who had died after being members of the proscribed LTTE. The LTTE was a brutal terrorist organization which fought to create a separate state. Many other foreign countries too had proscribed it, as a brutal terrorist organization. Supporting such an organization or commemorating its leadership or membership was also proscribed by the law in this coun...