Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers will expand their daily satellite television broadcasts to South and Southeast Asia from Monday night to brief expatriate Tamils and fellow Asians about life on their patch, the rebels said.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who run their own de facto state in Sri Lanka's war-scarred north-east, began broadcasting to Europe in March and now want to target the Tamil audience closer to home.
"Our main purpose is to let South Asians, including Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan, know what is happening in the Tamil homeland," rebel media co-ordinator Daya Master said from the northern rebel stronghold of Kilinochchi.
The rebel-run National Television of Tamil Eelam will broadcast footage of regular visits by foreign diplomats and politicians who fly in to meet their political wing leaders to discuss the island's protracted peace process.
They will also broadcast ceremonies and cultural events organised in their northern power-base, as well as in areas of eastern Sri Lanka that they also control, seven days a week for a total of three hours a day - two hours to Asia and one hour to Europe.
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