Feb 25th 2009 11 pm
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(part from an email that I sent after attending another rally in Canberra)
Dear friends,
The rally in Canberra went well like the last one. There’s always the core 1000-2000 folks who always come but I think there might have been about 4000 today. The people from Melbourne had a long drive starting at midnight!
- Information and a photo package was given to the Embassies.
- The German, Norwegian and US embassies went out of their way to be courteous to us and talked to us and listened for a long time. The representatives acknowledged that there were widespread killings of civilians. The US embassy was the best.
- The Indian embassy, on the other hand, just said that they will pass the message! The Japanese embassy talked to the reps of TYO, standing behind the closed gates!!!!
- Later, TYO reps stayed behind to talk to the UN representatives.
- An interesting thing that happened was Sri Lanka sent a little plane with the message “Save Sri Lanka from Tamil Tigers”. The plane was doing many rounds above us and the crowd got a bit unsettled at that point!
Imagine our people back home who are continuously bombed, who have no democratic means of expressing themselves….How lucky are we that we can shout and protest???
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Right now, I am really mad at Sonia Gandhi (born Edvige Antonia Albina Maino). She could have prevented the deaths of the 2000 Tamils in the last 2 months. She could have saved hundeds of children from death, horrific injuries and trauma. She could have, at least, not helped Sri Lanka.
Instead she seeks revenge. She sends moneny and military aid to the genocidal Sri Lankan Regime.
Doesn’t she realise that her husband was responsible for the death of thousands of Tamils during the IPKF time and there is some justice behind his killing?
The Indian Embassy was cold hearted in the face of the banners that were showing images of traumatised, dead and wounded Tamil children. There is justification to the slogan that some in the frustrated crowd shouted, as we marched away from the Indian Embassy with a sick feeing…
”Sonia….” “Mafia…”
”Sonia….” “Mafia…”
”Sonia….” “Mafia…”
