{"id":140617,"date":"2015-03-07T19:13:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T13:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=140617"},"modified":"2015-03-13T19:52:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:22:38","slug":"british-tamils-to-stage-spontaneous-protest-against-war-criminal-sirisena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/british-tamils-to-stage-spontaneous-protest-against-war-criminal-sirisena\/","title":{"rendered":"British Tamils To Stage Spontaneous Protest Against &#8216;War Criminal&#8217; Sirisena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diaspora groups are planning to rally against President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Maithripala+Sirisena&amp;x=11&amp;y=1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Maithripala Sirisena<\/span><\/a> who is due to arrive in London this evening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Maithripala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-140616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Maithripala.jpg\" alt=\"Maithripala\" width=\"223\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a>The President, who is due to land at the Heathrow airport this evening at 20:00 GMT to initiate his three-day visit in the UK, will be faced with spontaneous protestors who will be expressing their solidarity with the protestors in Jaffna who took to the streets demanding justice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;British Tamils from all over the country are due to gather before the Airport this evening, to note that although there is a change in the Sri Lankan government, the oppressive conditions in Eelam yet continue unabated.&#8221; one Tamil activist told Colombo Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>The organisers of this protest state the only diaspora group that would not be participating is the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=GTF&amp;x=8&amp;y=4\">Global Tamil Forum<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Sirisena was the acting Minister of Defence during the final two weeks of the war in Sri Lanka and therefore is bound by a command responsibility with concern to the war crimes allegations leveled at Sri Lanka including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=White+Flag+case&amp;x=9&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">white-flag issue<\/span><\/a>. &#8220;He is a war criminal&#8221; a Tamil diaspora activist told Colombo Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>President visited UK to attend the Commonwealth Day Observances on March 9 and during his visit, he is also due to meet British Prime Minister David Cameron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":140616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>British Tamils To Stage Spontaneous Protest Against &#039;War Criminal&#039; 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