US rep for Tamil Tigers faces sentencing
Federal prosecutors in New York City say a man who was the top U.S. representative of outlawed Sri Lankan rebel group, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), deserves a stiff prison sentence while his lawyers say he’s done enough time.
Karunakaran Kandasamy faces a maximum 20-year term at sentencing on Friday.
The 55-year-old Kandasamy was hit with terror financing charges nearly six years ago. His lawyers say he’s already spent enough time in jail and should be released.
He was among several Sri Lankan immigrants rounded up in the mid-2000s and accused of illegally raising money for the Tamil Tigers.
The United States and other Western countries had labeled the Tamil Tigers a terrorist organization before the rebels were defeated in 2009. – AP
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This LTTE terrorist and others of the same ilk in USA should get life sentences just like the Islamic terrorists who attacked USA. The LTTE plotted terror attacks from USA, which is a crime deserving death sentence. At least they should receive life sentence, as a lesson to all terrorists who plot terrorist attacks in other countries, safely from USA and raise money to fund such attacks.
Why not send this tamil terror to the electric chair? This Kandasamy terror is directly responsible for the massacre of innocent sinhala buddhist mothers and children by collecting money that eventually brought guns to Sun God’s army.
Recommend removal of his penis with a box cutter before he is taken to the Elec-Chair.