24 July 1998

Chairman

Charity Commission

St Albans House

57-60 Haymarket

London

SW1Y 4QX

We are writing this letter to complain to you in the strongest possible terms about the way in which a UK registered charity is working with terrorist and rebel groups to overthrow democratically elected governments in third world countries. Standing international forum on ethnic conflict genocide human rights (International Alert, Registration Number 327553) recently sacked its representative in Sri Lanka for writing an article in a Sri Lankan news paper about the fund raising activities of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam terrorist group in Norway. The LTTE have been waging a terrorist campaign against successive democratically elected governments of Sri Lanka for over twenty years, killing over 50,000 innocent civilians to-date. A representative of the International Alert has confirmed its Sri Lankan representative was sacked, almost certainly breaking employment laws in Sri Lanka, due to the article she wrote in the paper and under the advice of the LTTE terrorist group. This and other close links between this so called charitable organisation and the LTTE terrorist group have prompted even the Sri Lankan foreign minister to accuse International Alert of being a possible front organisation of the LTTE terrorist group, and initiate an investigation.

This is not the first time International Alert has been accused of trying to help a rebel group overthrow a democratic government. Sierra Leone government openly accuses International Alert of helping a rebel group overthrow this democratically elected government for a brief period. The Sierra Leone government is currently planing to bring to justice some senior representatives of International Alert, including Mr. Kumar Rupasinghe who faces a possible death penalty for helping the rebels.

We urge you to investigate this organisation which we believe are engaged in political activities with an unhealthy relationship with international terrorist groups. They are engaging in these activities while fully utilising the benefits of being a UK registered charity and at the expense of British taxpayers. We further ask you cancel their charitable status immediately should you find they are in breach of any charity commission regulations. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need any further information on this matter.

Aruna Christopher

UK Representative