Indian organisations petitioned the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) calling for the upcoming cricket series with Sri Lanka to be cancelled, in light of death sentences handed down to five Tamil Nadu fishermen by a Sri Lankan court.
The All Indian Traditional Fishermen Association, Vanighar Sangangalin Peravai, Tamil Youths and Students Federation and the Future India Party jointly delivered a petition to the BCCI, calling for the Sri Lankan cricket team to be barred from playing in India.
The petition stated that protests had erupted across Tamil Nadu against the sentence handed down to the fishermen, adding “with respect to the feelings of the people of Tamil Nadu and in solidarity as people of one nation, we hereby ask the BCCI to take action to send the Sri Lankan cricket players back to Sri Lanka immediately, without conducting any further future matches.”
The organisations went on to say that a sports boycott should be put in place on Sri Lanka due to the “continuous systematic discrimination, human rights violations and genocide of the Tamil people.”
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