David Miliband Burnt in Effigy in Sri Lankan Capital
May 18, 2009
The effigy of the UK's Foreign Secretary, David Miliband has been burned on the streets of Columbo, by the Sri Lankan protesters today, accusing the UK of backing the LTTE rebels. Beside, the protestors also attacked the British High Commission in Columbo by pelting stones and rotten eggs, as well as spraying graffiti. The protestors who numbered around a thousand had some placards with them, which carried slogans such as, 'Miliband is White Tiger' and 'Hands off Sri Lanka. We are no more your colony'.
The protesters who left after an hour of turbulent demonstration had also damaged the outer wall and a CCTV camera of the compound. However, no staff of the High Commission was injured. The protesters' mob had emerged all of a sudden from amid the jubiliation scenes in the city that followed the declaration by the Sri Lankan governmnent that combat operations in the twenty-six year old civil war of the country has come to an end with the routing of the rebel outfit. Today came the news of the death of the rebel leader V.Prabhakaran, his son Charles Anthony and a number of close aides of the rebel supremo, along with the news of Sri Lankan army winning the long civil war.
Meanwhile, the belligerent demonstration has in its turn triggered an enraged response from the UK that reprimanded the island authorities for allowing the protest to turn violent. A high commission spokesman said after the infuriating incident that it was an outrage that the demonstration was allowed by the authorities to turn out that violent enough to cause damage to their property, in apparent contravention of their responsibilities. On the other side, a Sri Lankan policeman said to the staff reporter cum photographer of the Digital Camera Reviews, Amy Don that they had not expected a sudden turn out of the kind. He added that the UK also had been equally irresponsible in allowing the same sort of action against the Sri Lankan embassy in London.
Numerous Sri Lankan citizens still hold on to a firm belief that the Western Countries had hypocritically backed the cause of the LTTE rebels by criticising both the Sri Lankan government's reluctance to call a ceasfire amidst the battle to allow the tens of thousands of civilians to escape and the Army's offensive against the rebel outfit. The government also was found acting in an apprehensive manner towards the journalists from the West, as the Nikon D90 Digital Camera that was seized by the officials from Don was not returned until the time this report has been completed.
Nevertheless, the UK has still been holding on to its GBP 5 billion promise to the Sri Lankan government for more efficient relief operations. Don, in her day's report hoped that the journalists would be permitted into the war-torn area now that the military operations are almost over, along with the safe returning of her advanced digital SLR. She also have reported that the condition of the tens of thousands of civilians who were caught in the cease-fire in the past week was not known, although the Army sources have avered that they are being attended with dedication.
However, the detainment of the three Sri Lankan doctors who had attended to the bruises of hundreds of civilians in the makeshift health care centres in the war zone by the authorities, accusing them of rendering false information to the media, has invited scorn from numerous countries all over the world, according to the latest reports.
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