Thursday , 14 March 2013
"We do not want the assistance from you". "It is ample if only our children could be traced, who had gone missing " was said by the relatives of missing persons at the media briefing held at the Colombo Municipal Council Public Library Conference hall.
"We were to come to Colombo to hold a protest appealing to track our children who had gone missing”. “However Police from Vavuniya obstructed us, refraining us from continue our journey to Colombo”.
"They threatened the bus drivers which came to transport us and sent back the buses"
"Without discarding our attempts, we held the protest in Vavuniya"
"Only one request we plead, we do not want your assistance" but it is ample if you can find and return back our children" was the pleadings from the relatives.
Thursday , 14 March 2013
The federation operating in finding the beloveds gone missing in the north and east, the representatives of that movement submitted a supplication to the UN, appealing to rescue the missing relatives and urging to release Tamil political prisoners.
A protest was proposed to be held in Colombo last week by the federation operating in finding the beloveds in the north and east. At the time, the protestors commenced their journey, police by reasoning security precautions, prevented the people at Vavuniya.
Hence the desperate people commenced the protest in Vavuniya and submitted a supplication to the Vavuniya District Secretary.
Due to the reason that they were refrained from holding the protest in Colombo and abstain from handing over the petition, on the stipulated day, the deprived protestors made arrangements today to hand over that entreaty.
Only a portion of the representatives from the federation operating in finding the missing relatives from the north and east came to Colombo in handing over the petition due to security reason.
The petition was handed over at 12.30 noon to Patrick Ivanz the diplomat attached to the United Nations Development Program office.
Tamil National Alliance Jaffna district parliament members E.Saravanabawan, Vanni district parliament members Sivashakthi Ananthan, Vino Nogarathalingam, United National Party parliament members Jayalath Jayaratne including Mannar civil society representatives, people's representatives and hundreds of relatives from the federation operating the missing relatives of north and east were present at the handing over the supplication event.
