Sri Lanka’s foreign minister Dinesh Gunawardena met with both Britain’s and Canada’s diplomats this week, where he reportedly “addressed the mutual concern of security of countries, particularly in the context of the increasingly visible activities in the past few weeks by non-state actors engaged in glorification of terrorist acts of the LTTE”.
An official Sri Lankan press release claimed that both British and Canadian envoys “conveyed the strong position of their governments that there was no tolerance for terrorist activities nor glorification of terrorism, in their countries”.
“The recent spate of acts of non-state entities in no way reflected a change in their official position on such matters,” the Sri Lankan press release added.
Gunawardena’s meeting with the diplomats came after reports he would raise the projection of a Karthigaipoo on to the UK Houses of Parliament last month by British Tamil activists with the British High Commissioner.
The projection was organised as part of Maaveerar Naal commemoration activities, whilst the Sri Lankan state launched a military crackdown and arrested dozens of Tamils across the North-East.
