Toronto-- With the world still mourning the victims of terrorist attacks in Britain, Black Tigers Day--an event venerating suicide bombers--was commemorated in australia on July 10.
Just three days after the London underground terrorist bombings, the federal australian government provided a state school building to a front organization of the world's foremost terrorist outfit--the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). (asiatribune.com, July 25).
LTTE suicide bombers were given full honours at the event. Commemoration organizers did not have to hide under anonymity by staging the event in an out of the way basement. Including a formal salute of the Eelam flag by a senior figure of the Tamil Coordinating Committee, the event was held at the Sydney Black Tiger felicitation site inside the School Hall of Home Bush Boys High School, in the State of New South Wales.
Incredibly, permission to hold the event in the taxpayer-supported public building was granted by the australian federal government. Make that the same australian federal government, which is considering adopting legislation introduced by the British government to strip the citizenships of those convicted of terrorism offences.
australian Prime Minister John Howard has said that australia would look very carefully at what the British do and if there is something in that for australia it would be happy to pick it up. He has warned that the west is locked up in a 19th century mindset, which is inadequate to deal with 21st century terrorists.
The Tamil Coordination Committee, widely identified as an LTTE front organization, staged quite a show on July 10 to venerate suicide bombers. Festivities got underway with a musical evening, dances and speeches praising the feats of Tamil Tiger suicide bombers, who perished killing such state leaders as former Indian Prime Minister, the late Rajiv Gandhi and former Sir Lankan President, the late Premadasa.
So outraged was the asian Tribune at the boldness of the event, it republished some of the photographs taken at the Sydney Black Tiger commemoration event that were proudly exhibited in Tamil Natham, a pro-LTTE website.
"How could the australian government and the New South Wales government permit an act of hoisting the flag of a non-existent state in affront to a friendly nation, Sri Lanka?" asked the Tribune. "What is the newly appointed Sri Lankan High Commissioner, Mr. K. Balapatabendi doing here in australia about this affront to the sovereignty of Sri Lanka? are the Sri Lankan organizations in australia correct in criticizing his appointment as a prelude to his eventual retirement in australia in the midst of his kith and kin?"
In photographs from the event posted on Tamilnet, LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabaharan is seen paying his respect to his first suicide bomber, Captain Miller.
"How could the australian government permit this dangerous trend of public display venerating the deadly LTTE suicide bombers?"
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