Anti-terrorist exhibition in UK highlights Tiger atrocities
COLOMBO: The European Community will get a first hand eye witness
account of LTTE atrocities against innocent civilians in Sri Lanka when
an anti-terrorist exhibition of photographs is launched by the
anti-terrorist Sri Lankan Forum in Britain in several European cities
shortly.
The first leg of this exhibition organised in collaboration with the
Presidential Media Unit, the Foreign Ministry and the Sri Lanka High
Commission in UK will open at the centre one hall at Cheswick Street
London, near Scotland Yard Headquarters at 10 a.m. today.
A Presidential Media Unit release said Lord Nesby, a senior member of
the British House of Lords will be among the main invitees at today’s
opening ceremony.
Among other leading personalities attending as invitees will be,
Conservative Party Shadow Foreign Secretary and former Conservative
Leader William Hague, British Parliamentarians Stephen Cameron and
Andrew Leet and Sri Lanka High Commissioner Nihal Jayasinghe.
A large number of intellectuals, media personalities and Sri Lankans
domiciled in Britain will also be present.
The release said the Exhibition will feature nearly 280 large size
photographs in addition to screening of short video films and
distribution of pamphlets showing the LTTE barbarism.
The photographs will include those of politicians of all communities,
from Jaffna Mayor Alfred Duraiappa to Major General Janaka Perera as
well as intellectuals and other eminent persons killed by the LTTE.
The exhibition will also portray the massacre of civilians,
destruction to property caused by the LTTE terrorists and their suicide
attacks and conscription of child soldiers.Photographs depicting the
development and stabilisation of democracy in the Eastern Province
following its liberation from LTTE clutches will also be included in the
exhibition.
When Sri Lanka is facing a decisive moment in its efforts to defeat
LTTE terrorism comprehensively Sri Lankans resident in Europe too have
rallied round to support that effort.
The second leg of the exhibition will be at the Hague in Netherlands
on October 27 and 28 and the third in Paris, France on October 30 and
31.
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