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May 18, 2009
LTTE headquarters
As Sri Lankan special forces deal with the last Tamil Tiger redoubt (outside Toronto) and dispose of the remains of Tamil Tiger leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran, outraged Sri Lankans gave the British diplomatic mission to Colombo a well deserved redecorating.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared victory on Saturday and the Tigers admitted defeat the day after, even as the last battle in a civil war that erupted in 1983 was being fought inside less than a square kilometre.
In Colombo, demonstrators threw rocks at the British High Commmission, tossed a burning effigy of Foreign Secretary David Miliband inside and spray-painted its heavily fortified wall with epithets and a message: 'LTTE headquarters'.
Miliband has been critical of the Sri Lankan government's prosecution of the war, and is seen here as sympathetic to the vocal pro-LTTE lobby that has protested outside parliament for weeks in Britain. London has said it backs a war crimes probe.
In Colombo, demonstrators threw rocks at the British High Commmission, tossed a burning effigy of Foreign Secretary David Miliband inside and spray-painted its heavily fortified wall with epithets and a message: 'LTTE headquarters'.
Miliband has been critical of the Sri Lankan government's prosecution of the war, and is seen here as sympathetic to the vocal pro-LTTE lobby that has protested outside parliament for weeks in Britain. London has said it backs a war crimes probe.
Don't forget the Canadian High Commission!
A direct consequence of leftist racism and Canadian indifference: Tamil Tiger allies set fire to a Toronto Buddhist vihara in their continuing campaign of terror and intimidation against Sri Lanka, Sinahlese Canadians and Canadian Tamils who came here thinking they had escaped Tamil fascism (via Blazing Cat Fur).
The LTTE is notorious for attacking Buddhist Temples in Sri Lanka. They attacked and partially destroyed the Sri Dalada Maligawa, the Temple of the Tooth, where a tooth relic of the Lord Buddha is enshrined. They also went in a bus, fully dressed in uniform to Sri Maha Bodhiya and indiscriminately killed over 150 laymen and monks who had gone there to worship.
Both these places of worship are revered by Buddhists all over the world. LTTE's counterpart supporters attacking Temples in foreign countries can't be anything new to their agenda.
Both these places of worship are revered by Buddhists all over the world. LTTE's counterpart supporters attacking Temples in foreign countries can't be anything new to their agenda.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 18, 2009 08:28 AM
