Tiger atrocities photo exhibition in Italy

The photographic exhibition depicting LTTE atrocities to the world at large will be taken to Italy this month.

The exhibition will be held at the Popolare University hall in Rome from November 14 to 16, Federico II University in Napoli from November 18 to 20 and at Milano from November 21 to 23, the Presidential Media Unit said yesterday. The anti-terrorist collective in Italy and Europe is handling arrangements for the exhibition in Italy in association with the Sri Lanka Embassy in Italy, Embassy Consultant Chandrapala Liyanage said.

Liyanage said LTTE activities in Italy have been suppressed to a great extent, but LTTE sympathisers were still surreptitiously engaged in fund raising activities and demanding ransom payments from innocent Tamil citizens. Sri Lankan Ambassador Hemantha Warnakulasuriya said the Italian Government and police were countering terrorist activities with a strong hand.

The Italian Government was closely working with the intelligence services and other authorities to put a full stop to LTTE activities in Italy.

More than 100,000 Sri Lankans work in Italy in various capacities and remitting large amount of foreign exchange earnings to the country.