Elite police stifle peaceful rally by families of disappeared as Cameron visits Jaffna
BY RAMANAN VEERASINGHAM-
16 NOVEMBER 2013
Showing sheer ignorance to mounting international pressure over alleged war crimes, hawkish Sri Lankan government on Friday deployed anti-riot elite police squads to violently stifle a peaceful demonstration by hundreds of family members of disappeared and effectively prevented them from meeting the visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron in the war-hit northern Jaffna peninsula.
Showing sheer ignorance to mounting international pressure over alleged war crimes, hawkish Sri Lankan government on Friday deployed anti-riot elite police squads to violently stifle a peaceful demonstration by hundreds of family members of disappeared and effectively prevented them from meeting the visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron in the war-hit northern Jaffna peninsula.