LTTE causing genocide

Lord Naseby makes public statement:

Walter JAYAWARDHANA

Conservative Peer and Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group on Sri Lanka Lord Naseby, said if there is any genocide in Sri Lanka it is by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who hold civilian Tamils by force as a human shield in the war.

"This talk about genocide is rubbish. The only people who are causing genocide are the LTTE who are holding the civilians as a human shield," he said when a LTTE propagandist in the audience charged the Sri Lanka Government of genocide.

Lord Naseby was referring to the Tamil civilians who are being held against their will as a human shield in the current war by the LTTE and who are being shot at by the LTTE when they attempt to escape on foot and by boat.

The British House of Lords member made this public statement, at a Forum discussion recorded in front of an audience, mostly consisting of British Tamil Forum members, at a studio in the Media House in Central London and broadcast by Press TV of Iran. A sympathetic labour member of Parliament to the Tamil movement in London, Jeremy Corbyn was the moderator of the show.

Labour Party Member of European Parliament Robert Evans, a spokesman of the LTTE front organization, the British Tamil Forum Suren Suthanthiran and President of the Sinhala Association of London Douglas Wickramaratne were the other members of the discussion panel. Lord Naseby said, international pressure should be brought on the LTTE to release all those civilians. He said no international pressure is necessary, as Robert Evans suggested, to declare a ceasefire, by the government. He said the Sri Lanka Government is an elected government and it is the LTTE who must put down its arms and surrender to bring the military conflict to an end.

The show had an ominous start when British Tamil Forum's Suren Suthanthiran, said that a main grievance of the Tamils is that Sinhalese being the only official language.