BASL blames UK police for allowing LTTE supporters to protest Wednesday, 15 December 2010 02:56

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BASL blames UK police for allowing LTTE supporters to protest
Wednesday, 15 December 2010 02:56

The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) yesterday faulted British law enforcement officers for allowing LTTE supporters to openly protest against President Mahinda Rajapaksa during his recent visit to the UK.
Issuing a statement, the Executive Committee of the BASL expressed its dismay at the conduct of the law enforcement officers of the British Government in allowing the supporters of a banned terrorist organization, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE), to openly hold demonstrations and indulge in other illegal acts.
This movement is banned in the United Kingdom by Chapter 11 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (amended by Terrorism Act 2006). And allowing a demonstration under the banned LTTE flag at several public places, including the Sri Lankan High Commission in London, would suggest that the British Government and its law enforcement authorities were willing to condone, or were not concerned about, the breach of its own laws even in front of the diplomatic premises accorded to countries on their soil, the statement said.
“We now see only a selective application of the law, and limited only to situations which the host nation perceives as a threat to itself from that banned organization, and not to any other part of the world which suffers (or has suffered, as in the case of Sri Lanka) from the scourge of terrorism,” the BASL statement said.
We therefore call upon the British Government and its law enforcement officers to forthwith, even at this stage, enforce the provisions of the Terrorism Act 2000 (amended by Terrorism Act 2006) by a resolute investigation to bring those responsible for staging these protests under the flag of a banned organization to justice, it continued