Rohan Gunaratna

Rohan Gunaratna     (academic, “terror expert”)
Born	1961
Member of	International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Middle East Media Research Institute
Advisor Dates unknown Employer International Centre for Counter-Terrorism  International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research/Head Dates unknown

Rohan Gunaratna is an expert in "counter-terrorism". In 2004, New Zealand journalist Martin Bright described him as “the least reliable of the experts on bin Laden” His claim to the New Zealand Herald that "sympathisers and supporters of various terrorist groups were in New Zealand” and claimed to have seen their fundraising leaflets were also dismissed by New Zealand’s Financial Intelligence Unit.

Sri Lanka

In 2013, Sri Lankan member of parliament Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe wrote in op-ed in which said that "he (Gunaratna) insisted the importance of combating terrorism, he did not address on the cause for the emergence of terrorism." In 2017, Inspector General of Bangladesh Police dismissed his claims of ISIS presence in Bangladesh by saying that he had no experience in "real issues."

Ontario Superior Court of Justice's Libel ruling

In a February 2011 article in Lakbima News, Gunaratna claimed that the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) was a front for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The CTC sued Gunaratna, and on 21 January 2014, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled against Gunaratna, ordering home to pay the CTC damages of $37,000, and costs of $16,000. In his ruling judge Stephen E. Firestone stated that Gunaratna's claims were unequivocally and incontrovertibly "false and untrue".

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