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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 9.04 GMT |
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Large crowds view “Victims of War” |
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Large crowds are coming to view “Victims of
War” the photographic exhibition which
depicts the brutalities, political
assassinations, cruelties imposed on
civilians, attacks on civilian and economic
targets and the disregard for human rights
by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(LTTE), now on in Geneva.
The exhibition opened at the Centre
International de Conference Geneva (CICG),
Rue de Varemba 17, 1202 Geneva is on from
April 21 to 23.
“Victims of War” exposition is aimed to
enhance worldwide awareness of the policies
of violence and terror of the LTTE that has
been carrying on a separatist war of terror
in Sri Lanka for nearly 30 years, to
establish a separate mono-ethnic state of
Eelam in a part of Sri Lanka.
A cross-section of the public from Geneva
and other parts of Switzerland coming for
the exhibition, which is the first time the
record of terrorism of the LTTE has been on
display in that country.
There is heightened interest in the
exhibition, due to the current news of the
LTTE’s imminent defeat by Sri Lankan
Security Forces, and news of the massive
exodus of Tamil civilians forcibly held by
the LTTE, to government held areas in Sri
Lanka’s North.
Photographs of from a large number of Sri
Lankan and foreign journalists, from
international news agencies and
publications, will display at this
exposition, which is organized by the Media
Division, Presidential Secretariat, Colombo
and the Office of the Permanent
Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN
Geneva.
Minister of Resettlement and Disaster Relief
Services Rishad Bathiudeen, who opened the
exhibition, said it records the sheer evil
of the LTTE; how it brutally rejected
political solutions for Sri Lanka’s
political problems, and saw totalitarian
power as its goal.
The victims of this terror were manifold.
They included hundreds killed by a range of
terrorist attacks. They included
politicians, predominantly Tamil ones, not
only those who tried to work with the
government for democratic solutions, but
even other militants who seemed to challenge
the monopoly the Tigers desired, he said
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