LTTE terrorists plan a new TV satellite channel in France
Following the decision of Intelstat to close down the
National Television of Tamil Eelam (NTT) "within days" Tamil Tiger
agents are planning to launch its second channel through Globecast which
is at present said to be up-linking of the TTN television on the Hotbird
satellite, reliable information sources said.
Sources following a revelation made by the 'Asian
Tribune ' news reportash comfirmed the latest LTTE strategy to beam a
second channel replacing the existing NTT broadcast.
The TTN, a satellite Television operating out of
Paris, is owned by the Taiml Tigers, formally known as Liberation Tigers
of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), an internationally banned terrorist organization.
Kailayapathy Vagan Ponniah, Managing Director of the TTN France with
branch office in London, is a cousin of Mathivathani, wife of Velupillai
Prbhakaran, Leader of the LTTE.
GlobeCast ( www.globecast.com) is a leading global
content management and delivery company. It is the subsidiary of France
Telecom. This company manages and transports, through its worldwide
satellite and fibre network, 10 million hours of video and other rich
media yearly for its core customer base of broadcasters, as well as
corporate, government and retail clients.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were quick to
rejected the notion of the Washington based Intelsat Corporation's press
statement that they were using the Intelsat 12 satellite illegally.
Rasiah Ilantheriyan , a spokesman for the LTTE told
agency services in Sri Lanka , "We are accessing it legally and there is
no signal piracy." An Intelsat executive and Legal Counsel for the
Intelsat, the world's biggest commercial satellite provider, Phillip
Spector told this correspondent that the LTTE was a pirate in an earlier
telephone interview but was quite reluctant to indicate an exact date it
would terminate the services. He said satellite technology was so
complex and it was not possible to turn off the services immediately but
it would be done as soon as possible.
If the switching off the services would not happen
within a reasonable time the matter could easily become a subject dealt
at the diplomatic level , informed sources said.
Ilantheriyan declined to discuss the terms and
contract with the service provider but would only insist that nothing
illegal had been done. The Intelsat issued the press statement calling
the terrorist outfit, listed as a foreign terrorist group by the State
Department was using their Intelsat 12 satellite illegally to broadcast
radio and television programs.
Intelsat, in its press statement said it had agreed
with the Sri Lankan ambassador in Washington D..C., Bernard Goonetileke
that the LTTE was a listed terrorist group in the United States and it
was illegally using its services.
The LTTE is up-linking its radio and television
programs , mainly for the consumption of expatriate Tamils as a tool to
collect funds to procure arms mainly in the Western Europe from a secret
location , believed close to Vavuniya, in Northern Sri Lanka.
Courtesy: Asian Tribune
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