Click it and Unblock the Notifications
Agitating PDK activists arrested
Chennai,
Nov
7:
About
30
activists
of
the
Periyar
Dravidar
Kazhagam,
espousing
the
cause
of
Lankan
Tamils,
were
today
arrested
when
they
attempted
to
lay
siege
to
the
office
of
the
Sri
Lankan
Deputy
High
Commission
here,
condemning
the
killing
of
LTTE
political
wing
leader
S
P
Tamilselvan
last
week.
Led by Kazhagam President Kolathur Mani, the activists, carrying placards denouncing the killing, assembled near the Russian Cultural Centre on the Kasturiranga Road and came in a procession to the Lankan Deputy High Commission office.
However, police personnel, who had barricaded the area, arrested them and took them in a police van. They were released later.
The agitators also appealed to the Lankan Government to stop killing of innocent Tamils.
Mr Tamilselvan, who had participated in the Norway-brokered peace talks, was killed in an air strike by the Lankan military.
UNI
