Report on Sri Lanka's war crimes in the European Social Forum 2008 in Sweden :

Report on Sri Lanka's war crimes in the European Social Forum 2008 in Sweden:

The European Social Forum 2008 is presently taking place in Malmo, in Southern Sweden. The Tamil Centre for Human Rights – TCHR, which has its head office in France, is one of the registered participants. Nearly 20,000 people from various parts of Europe and other continents are taking part.

This forum is an important meeting place for social movements and progressive civil society in Europe. Its aims to create a better Europe and a better world.

The forum was inaugurated on Wednesday evening, 17th September, with speakers and performers from all over the world, from local to global. It will continue to take place until Sunday 21st with nearly two hundred seminars and workshops, and more cultural events, film, music, informal meetings, activism and demonstrations.

Representatives of TCHR are participating in many seminars and workshops along with many other Tamil Representatives from various diaspora organisations from Scandinavians countries and other parts of Europe. The reports distributed by TCHR in this Forum highlight the human rights violations and war crimes committed by the notorious Sri Lankan armed forces against innocent Tamil people in the North East.

It is to be noted that a few days ago TCHR officially and successfully participated in the NGO conference at UNESCO in Paris.

According to TCHR sources, the news items appearing in various pro-Sri Lankan government media, were all highly exaggerated and scribed to satisfy the writers’ masters that the money paid to them had been spent effectively.

Also, the news items about UNESCO revealed the competition among Sri Lankan government representatives in foreign countries. The Paris representatives jumped, in order to convince Mahinda Rajapaksa that they are the smartest amongst those working abroad.

However, TCHR representatives said that they would like to thank those who had created the exaggerated news stories about what happened at UNESCO, as these writings had fortuitously made the presence of TCHR in the conference, known to a great many individuals and delegations from around the world, rather than to only a few. [THE END]