Protest in Colombo
over indiscriminate
arrests of Tamils
Hundreds of protesters
demonstrated Friday afternoon
3 p.m.at the Grandpass junction
in Colombo city against
indiscriminate arrests and
harassment of Tamil people in
Colombo under the Emergency
Regulations.
Western Province People's Front Leader
Mano Ganesan
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Several organizations and Sinhala and Tamil political party leaders
participated in this jointly organized event, sources said.
Protesters carried placards and shouted the slogan "stop the police
arrestments as well as remove the emergency law." After an hour of
protest the political party leaders addressed the gathering.
Tamil National Alliance parliamentarians, N.Raviraj and Suresh
Premachandran, Western Province People's Front Leader Mano
Ganesan, New Leftist Movement leader Vikramabhu Karunarathna and
other leaders of leftist movement attended the demonstration.
[Photo Courtesy: TamilNet]
