Sri Lanka: JHU calls for Karuna's protection in London

Sunday, 11 November 2007

The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) the all Buddhist monks extreme nationalist party yesterday called on the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry to intervene and facilitate the necessary security arrangements for the deported leader of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP), Karuna Amman, since the British government was conspiring to murder the renegade LTTE commander, in order to help the LTTE’s cause. The JHU Media Spokesman Nishantha Sri Warnasinghe told The Nation that the British government was refusing to provide security to Karuna Amman, who is against the LTTE, even though it readily provided security to the late LTTE theoretician Anton Balasingham.

“It is the responsibility of the British government to provide security to Karuna Amman, when he is taken a prisoner in their state. Whether Karuna Amman is a criminal or not, is another story. He is a citizen of this country and the Foreign Ministry should intervene and make arrangements for his security. The UK government provided security to Anton Balasingham, who was a LTTE leader. Then why are they refusing to provide security to Karuna?” Warnasinghe questioned.

He added that the British government was playing a dual role with regard to Karuna in a bid to protect the LTTE, and accused international rights watchdogs, Human Rights Watch and the Amnesty International of being in cahoots with the LTTE.

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