Talking terror beyond Tamil Tigers, IS


Nicholas Chan

A cop hurling a tear gas grenade at protesters in Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong, on Monday. State/police-against-civilian violence is only one kind of brutality the beleaguered city has seen in the last five months. – EPA pic, November 14, 2019.

NEWS on the arrest and prosecution of 12 individuals last month for activities linked to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which Malaysia deems a terrorist organisation, took many by surprise.

As LTTE was defeated close to a decade ago, and the last arrests in Malaysia, before the recent swoop, were five years back, the group had certainly been a far-off memory.


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