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Failed asylum seekers lead protests targeting SL cricketers
In spite of heavy campaigning, the UK based LTTE activists have failed to attract the youth for their protests, targeting the touring Sri Lanka cricket team. There were only about 30 people at a demonstration opposite the Lord’s cricket ground on Saturday, in London, where the second cricket Test match between Sri Lanka and England is being played.
The first demonstration attracted about 50 persons, at the first warm-up match at Uxbridge in mid May and about 10 activists at next match in Cardiff.
Although the LTTE lobby campaigned hard to pressure the British public to boycott matches, all tickets for the first three days of the Lord’s Test have sold out.
The majority of those supporting anti-Sri Lanka protests are those who have failed to obtain refugee status, sources said claiming that the UK-based LTTE activists were concerned that the British government would deny asylum to those arriving there, because the war is over.
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