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Friday, September 12, 2008 - 7.50 GMT |
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Hindus in Paris defy LTTE diktat |
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Hindu devotees in their hundreds
participated in the Ganesha pooja at the Sri
Manika Vinayakar Alayam Hindu temple in
Paris and broke thousands of coconuts as a
part of ritual defying the orders issued by
the Tamil Tigers 'not to waste money to
break coconuts when the people in the north
and east are displaced', said a news report
in the website Asiantribune.
The LTTE had pasted posters in Tamil
dominated La Chappelle area in Paris urging
Hindu population to boycott the coconut
pooja, which is an integral part of the
Ganesha pooja that is being currently held
at the Sri Manika Vinayakar Alayam Temple at
No 72, rue Philippe de Girard i Paris 18 and
contribute funds to the Tamil Refugee
Organization (TRO).
The TRO (ORT France) is under investigation
currently as the documents seized from 17
arrested LTTE cadres in France have revealed
the close links between the LTTE and ORT
France. The Sri Lanka Embassy in Paris urged
the European Union to ban the TRO as it is a
front organization of the LTTE.
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