Northern Provincial Councillor, Ananthy Sasitharan ,at a protest demanding an international investigation into the death of a British Tamil prisoner, Gopithas, condemned the treatment of Tamil political prisoners in Sri Lankan custody.
Sasitharan, added that Tamil political prisoners had been murdered in Sri Lankan prisons for years, and that Tamil representatives should use the United Nations Human Rights Council to get these issues resolved by the international community.
Describing the government assault on young Tamil activists as another mode of genocide, Sasitharan outlined that Tamils would continue to protest on an international scale until the international community took significant action to alleviate the oppression faced by the Tamil nation.
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