December 25, 2012 | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH
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.
