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British Tamils Forum or BTF, is a largest organisation representing the Tamil Community in the United Kingdom. The BTF intends to be the voice of the Tamil Community in the UK by raising the issues on Tamils in UK and to bring awareness to the issues affecting Tamil people in the island of Sri Lanka and around the world. The BTF's work is focused on addressing the root cause to the conflict through an international justice mechanism to bring truth and justice to all victims of war and to bring end to the entrenched culture of impunity in Sri Lanka.
The BTF's vision for a lasting peace and security through a negotiated political settlement to the Tamil national question by recognising the Tamil people’s right in the North-East of the island of Sri Lanka and hope to bridge the voice between the British Tamil Community and the Tamil people in the island of Sri Lanka.
The Sri Lankan government banned the organization as a front for the LTTE. However the lack of evidence to link the BTF and with the LTTE and terror activities resulted in the ban eventually getting lifted in 2015 as a bid to achieve reconciliation.[1][2] BTF was banned again in 2021 by the Sri Lankan government.[3][4] The ban was again lifted in 2022.[5]
- ^ "Govt lifts ban on several banned LTTE outfits". www.dailymirror.lk. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ "Sri Lanka Slashes List of 'Terrorists' in Reconciliation Bid". NDTV.com. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ "7 entities & 389 individuals banned in Sri Lanka's updated proscribe list". NewsWire. 29 March 2021.
- ^ "Amendment to the List of Designated Persons and Entities" (PDF).
- ^ "Selfish and cynical – Sri Lanka lifts ban on some Tamils but many more remain barred". Tamil Guardian. 17 August 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
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