5,000 Tamils marching in London reject LLRC, demand Tamil Eelam
[TamilNet, Friday, 05 April 2013, 19:45 GMT]
More than 5,000 Eezham Tamils, from all walks of life, took to the
streets in London on Friday, demanding UN referendum to determine the
creation of Tamil Eelam. “We want action, not words,” the protesters
said rejecting any solution based on Sri Lanka's LLRC. Demanding the
United Nations not to support the genocidal Sri Lanka, the Tamils in UK
said they are with the students of Tamil Nadu and thanked the Tamil Nadu
State Assembly for passing a historic resolution demanding UN
referendum on separate Eezham. In a historic referendum initiated by an
independent group of British Tamils, held two years ago, 99.33% of
64,692 Eezham Tamils had voted in favour of the formation of sovereign
and independent Tamil Eelam in the contiguous north and east of the
island of Sri Lanka.
On Friday, the protesters, braving unusually chilly winds, took the march from Trafalgar Square and concluded it at 10 Downing Street.
Raising slogans demanding the creation of a sovereign Tamil Eelam, the protesters also burnt an effigy of the genocide-accused Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Second generation Eezham Tamil youth and women took part in large numbers in the march organised by the Tamil Coordinating Committee (TCC-UK).
While the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), gagged from representing the political mandate of the Eezham Tamils at home, polled 233,000 votes in the last parliamentary elections, the referenda held in 10 countries alone in the diaspora in 2009 and 2010, polled around 210,000 votes re-mandating the creation of sovereign and independent Tamil Eelam.
Under the 6th Amendment to the unitary Sri Lankan constitution, Tamil political parties are restricted from representing the political aspiration of the Eezham Tamil nation as mandated in the last democratic elections held in 1977.
Chronology:
30.01.10 Brisk early voting in UK referendum
19.12.09 Referendum deciding identity
