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'Ensure against channelling aid through LTTE'

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, DEC. 30 . The Janata Party president, Subramanian Swamy, has urged the Centre to ensure that the aid agencies in Sri Lanka do not channel the aid given in the wake of the tsunami disaster through the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam or its outfit, the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO).

In a statement issued here, Dr. Swamy said the United Nations had to be warned of this possibility considering what happened in the oil-for-food project in Iraq during the Saddam Hussein regime.

According to Dr. Swamy's information, 80 per cent of the LTTE's `Sea Tiger' naval flotilla, which had been harboured in Mullaitheevu area, had been destroyed in the tsunami.

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