President of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) V Anandasangaree has warned Sri Lankan government by saying that the European Union Court’s annulment of the EU’s ban on the LTTE will be a push to revive the separatist and terrorist outfit in Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority of the Northern Province.

“Pro-LTTE groups both within the island and overseas have received a shot in the arm, and will now openly propagate the LTTE’s cause of separatism and terrorism. The TNA will now up its ante reflecting the LTTE’s demands,” Anandasangaree  has told The New Indian Express on Friday.

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Dr Rohan Gunaratna, who heads the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism  Research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore has also said: “The court did not conduct a substantive assessment of classification of the LTTE as a terrorist group.”

Earlier the General Court of the European Union (CVRIA) annulled on procedural grounds, the Council measures maintaining the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on the European list of terrorist organizations.

However,  in a reply the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry also released a statement which said that it was mindful that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision may have an impact, including from a security perspective, on the large majority of Sri Lankans living in EU territory, as well as EU citizens of Sri Lankan origin, who are likely to come under pressure once again by pro-LTTE activists.