Critising the Metropolitan Police for doing "nothing to control or prevent the protest" against Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's Cabinet spokesperson and Media Minister, Keheliya Rambukwella, said this week:
“There was a fairly big crowd mainly Tamil youths who had gathered before the Marlborough House from many countries of the Euro Zone including France, Germany, Norway and Sweden. It is obvious that the Tamil Diaspora had been organising this protest against Sri Lanka and President Rajapaksa for a considerable period of time."
"The Scotland Yard, famous for its crowd controlling, crime busting and intelligence services should have known this in advance. But unfortunately it did nothing to control or prevent the protest against a Commonwealth head of state who arrived in London on the invitation of Queen Elizabeth 11 and was a host of the British government,”
Warning Scotland Yard to be scared of the 8000 British and European Tamil protesters, Rambukwella added:
“The Scotland Yard had a legal obligation to prevent the protest as the LTTE was a proscribed militant organisation in the UK,”
“There is a possibility that these protests and violence may turn against the British citizens themselves and the British government in the future.”
