Tuesday, December 25, 2012

WikiLeaks:1988 Indian Payoff To LTTE Revealed – 520 Million Indian Rupees To Tigers



December 25, 2012 | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

“Major Sri Lankan Papers April 15 have head lined a report (First published in the April 3 London Observer) which quotes both Indian High Commissioner J.N. Dixit and an LTTE spokesman in Madras that Indian Prime Minister Gandhi agreed in late July to pay the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam a monthly stipend to compensate for lost Tax revenues following the signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka accord.” the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington.
Gandhi and Prabhakaran
A Leaked US diplomatic cable, dated April 5, 1988,  updated the Secretary of State regarding the the Indo-Sri Lanka accord and the Indian – LTTE secret  package.The Colombo Telegraph found the related leaked cable from the WikiLeaks database. The cable subject was “Indian payoff to LTTE revealed”.
The Embassy wrote; “The monthly payment, reports say, was to have been five million Indian Rupees (or nearly $400,000). An Indian HICOM officer has confirmed that some money was given the Tigers in late July. Apparently only its pledge to participate in Interim Administrative Council In late September and the deal fell through.”
“An unnamed LTTE spokesman in Madras in quoted as saying that the payment was part of a larger secret package of guarantees which Gandhi offered LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran in July to get him to agree to the bilateral accord.” the Embassy further wrote.