Government supporters have held a protest in Colombo, calling on the UN to take action against the “LTTE” in the diaspora and the Tamil National Alliance, for being a “proxy” of the organisation.
Around 1,500 people from a group called “Dead and Missing Persons Front” gathered outside the office of the United Nations in the capital and handed over a petition demanding action.
"It is only on one side that attention is being focused at the Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva," an organiser told state-run radio.
The protest coincided with another demonstration by Tamils, demanding to know what happened to relatives who had disappeared. Over a thousand Tamils were blocked from attending that protest.
See here for government media’s account of the protest.
