{"id":64478,"date":"2017-03-23T04:43:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T11:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=64478"},"modified":"2017-03-23T04:43:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T11:43:28","slug":"terror-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/03\/23\/terror-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM, Spokepserson, United Sri Lanka Assn, Wellington NZ<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Our hearts go out to the victims of the terrorist attack at Parliament Square in London today.<\/p>\n<p>However, I cannot but recall how on this same Square in June 2009, I witnessed a vociferous group of supporters of Prabakaran, the leader of the brutal Tamil Tigers who had terrorized Sri Lanka for three decades, who had been deposed a few weeks earlier, chanting loudly &#8221; Who is our leader \u2026 Prabakaran, , What do we want \u2026Tamil Elam&#8221;. When I questioned a nearby Policeman why this was being permitted, &#8221; it is part of freedom of speech&#8221;, was the response, oblivious to it\u2019s hurt for \u00a0Tiger Terror\u2019s victims and potential victims.<\/p>\n<p>A year later , at the same square, then a hot bed for dissident and anarchist protestors , was a placard displaying prominently the slogan , &#8220;In Sri Lanka, what was once a concentration camp ,is now an extermination camp&#8221;, casting a baseless slur on the camps that housed 300,000 Tamil hostages rescued from the Tiger clutches by the SL security forces. Again pointing out the error of permitting such misinformation, drew a similar lame response from the police.<\/p>\n<p>The London based Global Tamil Forum and it\u2019s leader Farther Emanuel ,a major funder of Tiger terror in SL, have regularly \u00a0had their annual celebrations in the rooms of the house of commons , hosted by prominent members of both parties, fearful of loosing the Tamil vote , touted as the deciding vote in many marginal electorates in UK.<\/p>\n<p>Permitting terrorist sympathizers to manipulate democratic freedoms, simply because , such actions did not affect them personally, as has happened in UK for decades was courting disasters like what happened this morning.<\/p>\n<p>It is to Prime Minister John Key\u2019s eternal credit that he protected NZ by preventing such groups from gaining foothold in NZ, as he did with his firm stand against the &#8220;Boat People&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM<\/p>\n<p>Spokepserson,<\/p>\n<p>United Sri Lanka Assn,<\/p>\n<p>Wellington NZ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM, Spokepserson, United Sri Lanka Assn, Wellington NZ Our hearts go out to the victims of the terrorist attack at Parliament Square in London today. However, I cannot but recall how on this same Square in June 2009, I witnessed a vociferous group of supporters of Prabakaran, the leader of the brutal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}