Insight By Sunil Kumar For LankaWeb

June 28th 2009 –Very understandably Sri Lanka has to be furious over the Lord’s cricket ground attacks in London England by pro LTTE thugs on innocent Sri Lankan spectators. The British Law Enforcement Agencies including the British Government should first hang their heads in shame and then launch a full inquiry into what transpired at the T-20 Cricket Final between Sri Lanka and Pakistan and what prevented the local Police from intervening, apprehending and arresting these thugs!

Ironically there were many warning sent out that these very type of incidents could transpire at this event which seem to have gone unheeded by the authorities

It has been reported that The Sri Lankan High Commission in Britain has formally lodged a protest with the Home Office in London over what it termed ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”lethargy’ by the local police in dealing with pro-LTTE thugs who physically attacked more than two dozen Sri Lankan cricket fans , including women, wearing Sri Lanka supportive T Shirts after the T20 World Cup final at Lords last Sunday.They were brutalised,abused and intimidated where some of them need hospitalisation while the Brit Bobbby truncheons remained inactive and the Bobbies looked on perhaps enjoying the show, refusing to intervene using some cockamanie excuse whereas there should have been a few cracked heads and clicking of handcuffs in the pro terrorist camp and a dragging off in Black and Whites to the nearest lock up!!

So what has the United Kingdom been transformed into today? ~ the latest enclave of the vanquished and eliminated Tamil Tigers back in Sri Lanka so as to be tolerant of this kind of attrocity in the home of cricket itself? Where the police have looked on and turned a blind eye to the attacks using the excuse that these thugs had carte blanche to carry out their attacks in the guise of approved protests according to a Police spokesman, so whom are they trying to kid?

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Britain already has a notoriety for a pro LTTE Tamil spokesperson amongst elected Parlimentarians who constantly raises his voice towards the LTTE cause but goes scot free despite a ban on the organization deemed terrorists in England.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Then there was the extended tolerance of terrorist idealogue Anton Balasingham ( now deceased)and his wife Adele who were given safe haven in England for many years despite their blatant support and involved participation with the Tamil Tigers where even the BBC chipped in to broadcast what appeared to be their condescending views at times over the Tamil Tiger issue which further adds to the chagrin of freedom loving Sri Lankan expatriates living in Britain?

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Is Britain also being transformed into another overseas enclave of the LTTE inasmuch as Toronto and other major cities in Canada? where the double standard of banning the LTTE yet tolerating their pro-active protesters seems commonplace despite its incomprehensible nature which is bound to have dire ramifications in every location these protesters surface through their continued tolerance by the related authorities and has to stop !

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ There are reportedly many underground cells of the LTTE still in circulation in Britain which need to be sought out, disbanded and their participants dealt with severely as there can be no proviso for the world’s once most dreaded terrorist group towards ever springing up again as it could spill out into a problem with much greater ramifications in a world where terrorism still threatens to raise its ugly head and engulf areas where they could base themselves and expand towards their objectives.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ The sooner the British Authorities take this issue by the scruff of its neck the better it will be for global safety where perhaps a precedent needs to be set for others to follow!!

Meanwhile, the organizers planning a cricket carnival on July 12 in London have also expressed concern for safety following the Lords attacks where it is simply not cricket on the part of the British Authorities to leave the issue of tracking down these thugs on the back burner as it could come back to haunt them!