{"id":74586,"date":"2018-02-09T17:42:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T23:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=74586"},"modified":"2018-02-09T06:04:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:04:57","slug":"ltte-demonstration-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/09\/ltte-demonstration-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"LTTE \u00a0demonstration in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

P.A.Samaraweera<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

It has become the common practice for LTTE supporters to brandish Tiger flags whenever they demonstrate against Sri Lanka. The LTTE is banned in the UK as a terrorist organisation. Despite this, British authorities and the Police permit LTTE \u00a0sympathisers to display terrorist\u00a0flags during their parades.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the recent incident,\u00a0where Brigadier Fernando, Defence Attache, was involved, those who demonstrated in front of the Sri Lankan High Commission in London, had not only carried LTTE flags but also shouted slogans supporting the LTTE. In the past as well, there had been comments that these LTTE demonstrations displaying Tiger flags had \u00a0been provocative. Therefore, the Sri Lankan govt should protest to the British authorities against LTTE supporters demonstrating with terrrorist flags. Apart from this, Britain has also given refugee status to terrorist leaders who disappeared after the war from Sri Lanka. A prominent figure among them is Adele Balasingham, who was the leader in distributing cyanide capsules to young boys and girls, and who is now living comfortably in the UK. British govt because of their double standards is silent over these.<\/span><\/p>\n

There had been two British MP’s leading the Tiger demonstration. Obviously, they are manoeuvring for Tamil diaspora votes. During the last days of the war, the LTTE terrorists were shielding Tamil civilians and all those who tried to flee from them were shot dead. Where were all those British MP’s who had come to the forefront now ? It is these British MP’s vying for diaspora votes who are fuelling the flames of hatred between the Sinhalese and the Tamils . What is also surprising is the attitude of the Foreign Ministry which is under a UNP Minister. The UNP leaders lost no time in suspending Brigadier Priyanka Fernando, Defence Attache, most probably to please Tamil politicians, who were one time henchmen of the terrorists. By the quick intervention of the President and revoking the suspension, UNP politicians had to bite the bullet. May be, the President took this step to score some points because of the Local Govt elections. Otherwise, he too would have been silent, in the name of so called ‘reconciliation”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During the ceasefire agreement under the\u00a0UNP govt in 2001-2004, LTTE leaders were given VIP treatment, and stooped so low as to host them in five star hotels. UNP leaders have not changed.\u00a0From this incident we hope UNP leaders and the UNP lackeys in the Foreign Ministry\u00a0saw the\u00a0patriotism shown by Brigadier Fernando, to the LTTE rump.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sri Lankans should support and stand with Brigadier Fernando for his patriotism and the courage shown to the Tiger demonstrators who were slandering Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

P.A.Samaraweera It has become the common practice for LTTE supporters to brandish Tiger flags whenever they demonstrate against Sri Lanka. The LTTE is banned in the UK as a terrorist organisation. Despite this, British authorities and the Police permit LTTE \u00a0sympathisers to display terrorist\u00a0flags during their parades. During the recent incident,\u00a0where Brigadier Fernando, Defence Attache, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drpasamaraweera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74586","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=74586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}