The recent attempts by the LTTE remnants, to get the once-most-feared terror outfit off the UK’s proscribed organisations list is not the first attempt by the LTTE. With the proscription of the LTTE in the EU and elsewhere the group lost millions of dollars’ worth of assets raised in those countries to fuel a bloody conflict back in Sri Lanka. These assets remain frozen to date, including within the EU. A senior terrorism expert, Professor Rohan Gunaratna at RSIS told the Sunday Observer, the LTTE remnants are looking to breakup Sri Lanka politically, since its terrorist movement failed to win their separatist demands.