The Perikatan Nasional government should press charges against the alleged supporters of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) "if they feel that they have enough evidence", said former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

According to Mahathir, when he was in power, the then attorney-general Tommy Thomas had informed him that there was no sufficient proof to charge the suspects under our terrorism law which denied them bail.

He said that was why he had written a letter to Muhyiddin Yassin, who was the home minister, stating that LTTE should be taken out of the country's list of...