Australian won't become Tamil Tigers' spokeswoman

news.com.au, February 06, 200.
ADELE Balasingham, the Australian widow of a senior leader of the Tamil Tigers terrorist group, has announced that she will not replace her husband within the organisation.
"There's absolutely no truth in the story that I am to assume my husband's role in the LTTE (the Tamil Tigers)," she said in an email to The Australian, which was her first comment on persistent reports that she was to be the new international "voice" of the Tigers.

Sri Lankan diplomats have urged Britain to arrest the London-based former Victorian country nurse if she does replace husband Anton as the Tigers' chief negotiator and spokesman, following his death from cancer in December.

Close observers of the Tigers and their three-decade fight for an autonomous Tamil state in northeast Sri Lanka say Ms Balasingham, 57, is still likely to have a significant role as one of the few Tiger activists with long international experience and the confidence of the group's leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran.read more