British Tamils Forum receives the Asia Voice award

The London based British Tamil lobby, the British Tamils Forum, last week celebrated the win of the Asia Voice award for best campaigning organisation of the year in the United Kingdom. The award was presented to the Forum last Thursday in the award ceremony held in the House of Commons that was attended by hundreds of special guests -- including leading Members of Parliament from all 3 political parties, Bollywood stars and British television and radio personalities.

Mr Nathan Kumar, President of the British Tamils Forum, received the award from the former Home Secretary, Dr John Reid MP, on behalf of the Forum. In his acceptance speech Mr Kumar said,
"We are honored to receive the Asia Voice award, but it is also my duty to say to you that we are accepting this award with a heavy heart -- killing of Tamils in Sri Lanka is continuing while the world is watching and waiting. There is a view amongst the policy community in the West that Sri Lanka is a failed state -- we are campaigning to tell the truth. Sri Lanka is a racist state, which has taken the lives 100,000 Tamils, its own citizens".

Mr Kumar went on to say that the work of the British Tamils Forum to advance Tamils right for self-determination in Sri Lanka will continue. He appealed to the special guests to support the Forum in its quest to bring peace with justice and dignity for all communities in island of Sri Lanka.

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[tfdo77]

Ltte killed more tamils than SL army killed ltte... tamils in SL have no problem with living among sinhalese.. Only tamil diaspora have all thses problem.. If tamil diaspora care so much why Global tamil forum can't find at least 250 people to sponser displace tamil kids... now you see what they really want.

[saraxboy]

british tamil eelam

[tincoster]

Highly corrupted Biggest CUNT in British Politics.!

He licks Prabhakarans Ass for cash.! And an insult to all Asian politicians in the UK. He was almost kicked out of the parliament In 2002, when Vaz was suspended from the House of Commons for one month after a Committee on Standards and Privileges inquiry found that he had made false allegations against Eileen Eggington.

[polipik]

Beauty full story!!! Very touchy!!!

LTTE and TAMILS are two stories in a same book unfortunately.

Sorry my friend, LTTE is dominated on you .Thats the way how modern terrorism play the game with puny politics and justice. Terrorism follow no democratic principles LTTE as well therefore Supporting LTTE make terrorism only a WMD to Tamils.

[adminmovie]

what is this shit forum???yehh Britain is really supporting terror..this is a great example for it...

[netbuwa2000]

Who is this LTTE Joker!!

The Tamil Tiger spokesman ????

LTTE is a big killers theier own people,what kind freedom LTTE gives for us tamils.

[iyer999]

It is really worth seeing.