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13.10.2008
Walter Jayawardhana
More
than 350 vociferous protestors , both the Sinhalese and
the Tamils, strongly demanded that Prabhakarn should down
his arms and surrender to the Sri Lanka Army and the Nederlands
should immediately put an end to the fund raising of the
LTTE in the Hague that increases the agony of the Tamils
in the Mullaittivu and Kilinochchi Districts who are subjected
to the worst human rights violations in the world.
"Fund
raising in the Hague helps LTTE to run one of the worst
Fascist organisation in the modern world that keeps an army
of child soldiers kidnapped from their homes and schools,
well recorded by the United Nations," one of the protestors
said.
Many
placards written in Dutch said the funds from Nederlands
help Prabhakaran run one of the most dangerous terrorist
groups in the world as described by the Federal Bureau of
Investigations (FBI) in the United States.
"Expatriates
of Sri Lanka, living in The Netherlands and other European
cities gathered in front of the Parliament of The Netherlands
in The Hague on 11th October 2008 to protest against terrorism
in general and the LibeSri Lankans belonging to all communities
ration Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)'s atrocities against
humanity in particular. The demonstration was preceded by
a Peace March towards the Parliament," a statement
issued by the organizers said.
This
was the first time an anti- LTTE demonstration was held
in the Nederlands although the European organizers of the
terrorist group has made the country's capital, the Hague
a hub for their fund raising activities. Demonstrators alleged
the funds are being raised for the most anti-human rights
activities in Sri Lanka under bogus human rights organizations
in the Hague. They alleged the funds are then taken across
borders to France, the United Kingdom and Canada to be smuggled
out to banks to weapons for terrorist activities.
The
organizers said in the statement: "At the end of the
demonstration, a memorandum on the objectives of the event
namely to highlight the increasing LTTE killings of innocent
people in Sri Lanka, to solicit the Dutch authorities' solidarity
towards the Peace efforts of the Government of Sri Lanka
and to completely ban all LTTE activities in The Netherlands,
was submitted to the government authorities. Copies of the
memorandum were also sent to the Prime Minister and other
political personalities."
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