LTTE Supporters In UK Succeed In Getting Britain To Pressures Sri Lanka Into Recalling Defence Attache Brigadier Priyanka Fernando From London.

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by Shamindra Ferdinando

The government has, under heavy pressure from the UK, carried out its decision to recall Sri Lanka’s military attache in London, Brig. Prinyanka Fernando, despite a presidential intervention.

When the government announced its decision to recall the brigadier, following an incident where he allegedly made a throat slitting gesture in front of a group of British LTTE supporters of Sri Lankan origin, in London, on Feb. 04, President Sirisena, ordered that he be reinstated.

Sources said the UK had called for swift action again the military attache.

The LTTE supporters protested near the Sri Lankan High Commission in London while Prince Edward and Sophie Wessex were in Colombo for Sri Lanka’s 70th Independence Day celebrations.

Brig. Fernando returned on Thursday (Feb. 22)

Courtesy:The Island