The leaflets, publicity in the LTTE media and campaign by the LTTE cadres now confirm that LTTE will be celebrating its Hero’s Day in London without fear of the law. Last ditch effort has been made in desperation to pull more crowds to the venue.
Vague leaflets circulated previously without the venue details have now been superseded with new leaflets giving the particulars. The leaflet still mislead the public by stating the organisers of the event as previously unknown ‘Tamil National Memorial Organisation’ when facts are available that LTTE front British Tamil Forum (BTA) based in Harrow had book the venue and are making the organisational arrangements.The LTTE front tamileditors.com did not shy away from giving some information about event. In their two news items they were very outspoken to claim it is a proscribed LTTE function.
One news said: ‘Tamil Diaspora community in the UK is preparing to remember thousands of their fellow men and women who died in the ethnic conflict in the island of Sri Lanka. Remembrance ceremonies are expected to be held world-wide on Tuesday, 27 November. Tamils are thought to number over 100, 000 in the former colonial ruler. This year the organisers, a consortium of Tamil community groups, have hired London's largest indoor-venue, the Excel Centre for the main event. Excel Centre has a capacity of 25, 000 people at anyone time. Organisers expect that around 75, 000 people will garland the photos of fallen heroes, throughout the day. The logistics involved in getting so many people in and out of the venue is ground breaking. Speaking to TamilEditors.com a volunteer involved in the logistical operations said: "Our main difficulty is that we can not let everyone stay inside the venue, because of the venue's capacity. At the same time we have to be sensitive not to force people out of the venue straight after the photos have been garlanded. We have to remember that many of the people in attendance would have lost at least a loved one in the war. It is a major logistical challenge, but we have the necessary highly capable volunteers to successfully embrace the event." In 2006, an estimated 50, 000 people attended the funeral of the Tamil's Chief Negotiator Anton Balasingham, held at London's Alexandra Palace’.
The second news titled ‘Tamil to honour 20,000 fallen heroes’ claimed to be filed from LTTE head quarters in Killinochchi in Sri Lanka went on to say:
‘ Sri Lanka's minority Tamil community has begun commemorating nearly 20,000 of their men and women who were killed fighting for an independent homeland. Five days of traditional remembrance events began on Friday and are set to conclude on Tuesday evening when the Leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) lights the "flame of sacrifice". Documents released by the LTTE show that 19,887 fighters have been killed since 27 November1982. The total includes 15, 691 males and 4, 196 females. Amongst the dead were 343 members of the elite Black Tigers unit that launches devastating attacks deep within enemy territory. The LTTE said 950 of their cadres have been killed this year as fighting with troops escalated while a Norwegian-brokered truce unraveled. The truce went into effect beginning in February 2002 -- and still is in place, at least on paper -- but the fighting began to worsen in December 2005, soon after the election victory President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is viewed as by the Sinhala community as a reincarnation of ancient king Dutugemunu who defeated the Tamils at war. There was no immediate reaction from the military to the Tiger losses’.
The news that 75,000 people are going to garland the LTTE dead men must be worrying story for the Excel management. Leaving aside they allowing a known proscribed terrorist function to take place in their venue questions will be asked what arrangements have been made to deal with the enormous security, traffic and health and safety concerns arising as a result of such large volume of people attending.
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