HOW
COULD A BRITISH GOVERNMENT CABINET MINISTER ADDRESS MEETINGS ORGANISED
BY LTTE FRONT ORGANISATIONS
Dr.Tilak
S.Fernando
HOW
COULD A BRITISH GOVERNMENT CABINET MINISTER ADDRESS MEETINGS ORGANISED
BY LTTE FRONT ORGANISATIONS WHEN THE UK GOVERNMENT HAS BANNED THIS TERRORIST
OUT FIT ? OVER TO YOU PRIME MINISTER RT.HON. GORDON BROWN
From: dwickramaratne@hotmail.co
Subject: Meeting
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:12:40 +0000
A meeting organised by the British Tamil Forum
held on 15th September 2008 at Zorastrian Centre, 440 Alexander Avenue,
Harrow Middx, UK.
Although this was billed as a public meeting,
almost all anti LTTE people were excluded but I, together with two other
Sinhalese, managed to slip into the meeting. It was a stage- managed
LTTE event.
After Lord Malloch Brown ended his speech criticising both GOSL and
Tigers for the present situation in Sri Lanka, we saw Gareth Thomas
reading out email questions to Malloch Brown. All questions were anti
GOSL whereas our members and many others had submitted hundreds of questions
against LTTE terror but none was raised by the MP!
All questions had been vetted by the organisers to exclude unfavourable
ones. The questions from the audience were also only from LTTE supporters.
When Lord Malloch Brown said that LTTE had never contested an election
and, therefore, it was not possible to judge the support among Tamils,
the audience including some of the organisers chanted 'we are all LTTE'.
Some of the questions from the audience like 'why don't you hold a referendum
among Tamils in UK bordered on sheer lunacy. They jeered him when he
said anything critical of the LTTE.
Robert Evans MEP made a completely pro LTTE speech. Known LTTE thugs
were seen walking around in a threatening manner. Half way through the
meeting Keith Vaz MP made an appearance. He was conducted to the stage
and they all clapped wildly as if Prabakaran had appeared on the stage!
Tamils opposed to LTTE were not allowed to raise any questions and one
Tamil activist Jayadevan was assaulted by some goons. The meeting ended
abruptly and even Keith Vaz was not called to speak.
The question is how could British Labour government
minister address meetings organised by LTTE front organisations when
the government had banned this terrorist outfit.
Douglas Wickramaratne
President Sinhala Association of Sri Lankans in UK
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