{"id":92160,"date":"2013-06-18T03:49:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T22:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=92160"},"modified":"2013-06-28T21:54:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T16:24:55","slug":"video-boycott-sri-lankan-cricket-activists-attacked-in-oval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/video-boycott-sri-lankan-cricket-activists-attacked-in-oval\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8216;Boycott Sri Lankan Cricket&#8217; Activists Attacked In Oval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At approx. 21:00hrs on Monday 17 June, officers on-duty outside the Oval Cricket Ground became aware of a number of items being thrown by members of the crowd. The crowd had dispersed by 21:35hrs.\u00a0No arrests were made in connection with the incident.&#8221; London Metropolitan Police told Colombo Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;London today saw ugly scenes of violence against democratic protests by Tamil activists at entrance of Oval grounds , as Sri Lankan ethnic Sinhala fan mobs gathered an assaulted Tamils, as they do in Sri Lanka.\u00a0 The fans came out as excited after victory of Sri Lanka over Australia turned angry denying the rights of Tamil\u2019s campaign to bring awareness of atrocities, ethnic Tamils are going through in the island under Sri Lankan military. The violence by Sri Lankan mobs injured few activists while the ugly display of Sri Lankan fans showed the real display of of situation in Sri Lanka.&#8221; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/transtamils.com\/tamils-injured-in-oval-after-sri-lankan-fan-mobs-assault-on-peacful-protest\/\">News of the Transtamils<\/a><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tamilguardian.com\/index.asp\">Tamil Guardian<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Sri Lankan cricket fans throw rocks and bottles at &#8216;Boycott Sri Lankan Cricket&#8217; activists handing out leaflets outside the Oval.<\/p>\n<p>Video and picture courtesy Tamil Guardian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/video-boycott-sri-lankan-cricket-activists-attacked-in-oval\/london-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92174\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-92174\" title=\"London\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/London1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/London1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/London1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/London1-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/video-boycott-sri-lankan-cricket-activists-attacked-in-oval\/london-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92175\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92175\" title=\"London\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/London2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/London2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/London2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/juEMCMgqfz8?rel=0;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"634\" height=\"357\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"WikiLeaks: Sri Lanka Is A Cricket-Mad Country\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-sri-lanka-is-a-cricket-mad-country\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WikiLeaks: Sri Lanka Is A Cricket-Mad Country<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"WikiLeaks: Cricket Is Like A Religion In Sri Lanka\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-cricket-is-like-a-religion-in-sri-lanka\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WikiLeaks: Cricket Is Like A Religion In Sri Lanka<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":92174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","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>Video: &#039;Boycott Sri Lankan Cricket&#039; 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