Latest media release from the LTTE

Headquarters,
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
21 July 2009
LTTE officially announces restructure process: Selvarasa
Pathmanathan heads the Organisation
"The Executive Committee of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam,
wishes to officially let our beloved Tamil people and the international
community know that Mr Selvarasa Pathmanathan, who had been
appointed as Head of International Relations by our National Leader, will
lead us into the next steps of our freedom struggle according to the vision
of our esteemed leader", said LTTE's Executive Committee in a press
statement released today.
Full text of the statement by the Executive Committee of the Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam is as follows:

"The Eelam Tamil people are in the midst of a critical and
sorrowful period in the history of the struggle for freedom of our Nation,
Tamil Eelam. No one can deny the fact that we have experienced massive
and irreplaceable losses, losses we would not accept even in our worst
dreams.
Against the backdrop of Sri Lanka's boastful propaganda that the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have been annihilated and destroyed, it
is our historic duty to rise up and fight for our legitimate rights ­ a duty
that has been left in our hands by our peerless leader and those martyred
heroes and civilians who have given their lives in defending our soil.
At this historic juncture, cognizant of the new circumstances, we
have set out to take our freedom struggle along new pathways.
Accordingly, we humbly announce to our beloved Tamil people that we
have reformulated the administrative structures of our liberation
movement.

Like all liberation struggles, we will modify the form and strategies
of our struggle according to times and demands. Yet, our ultimate goal of
a free Tamil Eelam does not ever change. In view of this, we, the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, wish to join hands with our people in
order to take forward our freedom struggle to its next phase. Hon Mr
Veluppillai Pirabakaran was then, now, and shall remain forever, the
leader of Tamil Nationhood.

We are determined to overcome all the hurdles ahead of us in order
to strengthen our actions towards our liberation. We have undertaken a
long, elaborate and deep process of consultation among our members,
including our cadres who bravely fought their way out of the battlefield
and our representatives abroad and in the Diaspora, in order to make
some firm decisions. According to this collective decision, we, the
Executive Committee of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, wish to
officially let our beloved Tamil people and the international community
know that Mr Selvarasa Pathmanathan, who had been appointed as Head
of International Relations by our National Leader, will lead us into the
next steps of our freedom struggle according to the vision of our
esteemed leader.

We have set up a head office for our liberation movement, and
formulated various sector-based working groups and an executive
committee, in order to take our struggle vigorously forward. We shall
share the details of these in due course. We look forward to the support
and wise counsel of the Tamil people in realising our future plans.
If the Sinhala nation and those countries that support it consider
that the Tamil people's freedom struggle has been defeated through the
capture of historical homeland areas of the Tamil people and the
massacre of thousands of Tamil civilians, we shall shatter that illusion.
Let us demonstrate to the world through our actions that the fire of
freedom awakened by our great leader V.Pirabakaran continues to burn in
the hearts of all Tamils, and that only a free Tamil Nation has the power
to extinguish it."

Thank you
Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Suresh(Amuthan), Mr.Ram,
On behave of Executive committee,
Headquarters,
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam