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| One month jail and one year rehabilitation for friend of Sri Lanka's slain terrorist leader |
| 2013-05-18 |
| A Sri Lankan court yesterday sentenced a childhood friend of slain leader of the Tamil Tiger terrorist outfit Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to a one month rigorous imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to charges against him. The Colombo High Court Judge Preethi Padman Surasena also sentenced the defendant, Gunasundaram Jeyasundaram, a schoolmate of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, to undergo a one year rehabilitation program at the end of the jail term. The judge handed over the sentence after Jeyasundaram, an Irish citizen, pleaded guilty to 15 counts of charges on supplying arms and ammunition to the LTTE. He was given a jail term of one month for each charge to serve concurrently. Jeyasundaram, who was arrested by the Terrorist Investigation Department of Sri Lanka Police in 2007, has been in custody for six years under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Confessing to his crimes the defendant, when he was produced before the court last week, appealed for rehabilitation. He has confessed to procuring arms and ammunitions from several countries for the terrorist organization. Making a statement in the court, the defendant has denounced terrorism and appealed the Tamil Diaspora to give up their Eelam concept. |
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