Thousands of Diaspora Tamils Protested against Sri Lankan President in front of U.N HQ in New York

New York - Thousands of Tamil Diaspora from US and Canada gathered in front of the United Nation Head Quarters in New York on Wednesday (September 24, 2008) and protested against the Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapaksa who addressed the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Protesters chanted many slogans in front of the UN HQ such as Rajapaksa Mass Killer of Tamils, We Want Freedom, We Want Thamizh Eezham Now, which attracted the hosts of visual, print and audio media as well as the general public in United Nation Head Quarters in New York.

This mass protest was organized by the Tamils against Genocide (TAG) in very short notice and the TAG officials concluded the protest was successful and said the protesters urged immediate attention of the world’s highest body to the serious plights of Tamils in Sri Lanka, especially 230,000 people in Vanni due to the state military operations against them.

Also the protest sent very strong message to the international community that free Tamil Eelam is the only solution will bring permanent end to this six decades old conflict in Sri Lanka, they added.

There were hundreds of placards were carried by the participants of the protest march describing the state atrocities committed against, Tamil aid workers, journalists, women, children, elected officials and religious leaders.

The Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapaksa when he was speaking at U.N said he would not, and could not, let the LTTE hold the Tamils of the north hostage to terror.

 

Meanwhile, Sri Lankan Army commander, Sarath Fonseka gave an interview to a reporter for the National Post, a Canadian mainstream news paper, where he said, "I strongly believe that this country belongs to the Sinhalese but there are minority communities and we treat them like our people," he says. "We being the majority of the country, 75%, we will never give in and we have the right to protect this country.”We are also a strong nation ... They can live in this country with us. But they must not try to, under the pretext of being a minority, demand undue things."

Sri Lanka government boasting Sri Lanka as a democratic nation, is blatantly violating the most fundamental obligation of any democratic government “that is to safeguard and protect the security of its people, regardless of race, religion, and ethnicity. Sri Lanka intentionally and on a pre-programmed agenda is deliberately targeting innocent Tamil civilian population in Vanni daily from sea, land and air and killing Tamils and creating a humanitarian tragedy in Vanni to call them into submission, a protester who participated in told TNS in New York yesterday.

Over 230 000 Internally displaced Tamil people who are being forced to displace multiple times within past two and half months now living in subhuman conditions in and around Killinochchi area are being targeted with state’s heavy guns’ shelling and aircrafts bombing. Sadly, the wider international community wittingly or unwittingly is helping the Sri Lankan agenda of Tamil Genocides this must be stopped and U.N and wider world community must intervene on behalf of the long oppressed Tamils in Sri Lanka and free the Tamil Eelam from the clutches of the genocidal regime of Sri Lanka, she added

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Sri Lanka boasting that, they have carried out over 6000 bombing sorties against its Tamil citizens in Vanni for the past two years while Sri Lankan president says that his military operations are undertaken to free the Tamils and liberate them. What a hypocrisy of a state president, he told TNS in New York.

Source: Tamil Eealam News