Tamil Tigers acquitted in Switzerland | SwissInfo | Dec 03 2019
The lower court ruled a year back, Swiss prosecutors appealed to the Supreme Court and lost !!
This is such a mind boggling verdict. How could it be said that an org that served as inspiration to Al Qaida by virtue of its lethality, killed TWO heads of Govt, in India (ex-PM Rajiv Gandhi in '91) & Sri Lanka (Serving President Premadasa in '93) in the space of two years be termed not a terror org.
Judgement in German here
It's just two pages long and the news article above pretty much covers it.
The lower court ruled a year back, Swiss prosecutors appealed to the Supreme Court and lost !!
This is such a mind boggling verdict. How could it be said that an org that served as inspiration to Al Qaida by virtue of its lethality, killed TWO heads of Govt, in India (ex-PM Rajiv Gandhi in '91) & Sri Lanka (Serving President Premadasa in '93) in the space of two years be termed not a terror org.
Judgement in German here
It's just two pages long and the news article above pretty much covers it.
In its indictment, the OAG had accused the people of violating the Swiss Penal Code by raising funds for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) between 1999 and 2009. After its nine-year investigation, the OAG suspected the accused of financially supporting the World Tamil Coordinating Committee (WTCC).
But in June 2018 the Federal Criminal Court found that the hierarchical link between the LTTE and WTCC could not be sufficiently established. The judges also felt there was not enough proof to consider the LTTE a criminal group.
According to the court, those who procured money for the LTTE in Switzerland at that time could not assume that they would later violate the law. Even if it had carried out terrorist attacks, the LTTE’s primary objective was to be recognised as an independent ethnic community.
But in June 2018 the Federal Criminal Court found that the hierarchical link between the LTTE and WTCC could not be sufficiently established. The judges also felt there was not enough proof to consider the LTTE a criminal group.
According to the court, those who procured money for the LTTE in Switzerland at that time could not assume that they would later violate the law. Even if it had carried out terrorist attacks, the LTTE’s primary objective was to be recognised as an independent ethnic community.
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