Nationalist organisations protest India’s Eelam conference

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Collective of Nationalist Organisations staged a demonstration march in the capital Colombo yesterday to protest the Tamil Eelam Solidarity Organisation (TESO) Conference that was scheduled to be held in Chennai today by the leader of the Tamil Nadu political party DMK.

The Chairman of Sri Lanka’s Sinhala nationalist Patriotic National Movement Gunadasa Amarasekera called the TESO Conference an attempt by India’s Tamil Nadu politicians to divide the country and is launched with the support of the central government of India.

Patriotic National Movement was an active participant of the agitation held this morning before the Indian High Commission in Colombo in protest of the TESO conference.

The activists carrying placards and shouting slogans marched to the High Commission and set fire to effigies of DMK leader M. Karunanidhi and Sri Lanka’s Tamil National Alliance Leader R. Sampanthan.

The Chairman of the Sinhala nationalist organisation linked to government coalition party National Freedom Front added that their doubt is proved by the fact that Central government of India allowed the use of the word ‘Eelam’, which means a ‘separate homeland’ with the conference.

Amarasekera also commended President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s recent statement calling upon the Indian government to have a relook at its dealings with its neighbours.