Thousands of demonstrators chant Allan Rock 'a liar' with past connections with the Tamil Tigers

Colombo, 21 November, (Asiantribune.com): Thousands of protesters
demonstrated in front of Sri Lanka's United Nation's office calling UN
Representative Allan Rock, the Special Advisor to the UN Representative for
Children and Armed Conflict a "liar" who lacked any qualifications to be an
impartial UN Ambassador due to his past connections with a terrorist group
notorious for recruiting child soldiers.An effigy of Allan Rock was taken in
the protest rally in front of the United Nations office in Colombo against
the UN ambassador. Protestors charged Rock has had connections with the LTTE
who are notorious for recruiting child soldiers Rock ironically is a
handling a job regarding child soldiers for the United Nations now, they
charged. (Picture by Island).
The demonstrators charged that the Ambassador has had political connections
with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorist group to obtain
votes in the past as a Canadian Liberal party politician that depended
heavily on the terrorist group's affiliated organizations.

Allan Rock, a controversial politician and a former Justice Minister of
Canada has been charged in the past of being lenient on the collection of
funds by the LTTE to fill their war chests with Canadian dollars, the
demonstrators charged.

After losing his competition to be the leader of Canada's ultra liberals
Rock was appointed by the government of Prime Minister Paul Martin to be
Canada's ambassador to the United Nations where he has now established
himself as a career diplomat working for the world body.

Prime minister Paul Martin himself was once in a Tamil Tiger scandal when he
attended a fund raising Tamil new year dinner held by Canada's FACT
organization, recognized by US government as a front organization of Sri
Lanka's Tamil Tigers, another name for the LTTE, who are banned both in the
US and Canada now.

The demonstration in front of Colombo's United Nations office on
Baudhdhaloka Mawatha ,was organized by the Desha Hithaishi Janatha
Sanvidhanaya (Patriotic People's Organization).

A spokesman for the demonstration author, novelist, short story writer and
critic Gunadasa Amarasekera said the "foolish rulers" of Sri Lanka also
should be blamed for allowing Allan Rock, a man with suspicious and unclean
record of terrorist connections, to come and roam in Sri Lanka providing all
facilities like air traveling etc. without investigations of his background
before clearance.

The leader of the leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna parliamentary group,
Wimal Weerawansa said they fully rejected Allan Rock's report that accused
Sri Lanka's Army of complicity with a rival break away guerilla team of the
Tamil Tigers to recruit child soldiers.

Weerawansa said Alan Rock came to Sri Lanka with a prepared report that was
part of an international conspiracy to bring in a United Nations troops to
divide the country permanently. The imperialists, he charged, took such
troops to Cyprus saying it was a temporary measure, but they are staying
there nearly 40 years permanently dividing the country.

He charged Allan Rock came to Sri Lanka as part of such a conspiracy and
they would like to warn the United Nations of dire consequences for such
troops if they were ever to step inside the country.

Weerawansa said Alan Rock's report prepared long before his trip, was more
exaggerated by the BBC as direct recruitment of child soldiers also as a
part of the same conspiracy.

He said Rock spent only a short ten days in the whole island, and only few
hours in the relevant area he charged the army of complicity and it was not
possible to raise such exhaustive allegations to tarnish a whole nation
during such a short period if Rock was not reading somebody else's false
report.

Weerawansa said the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission , constantly issuing
erroneous reports siding with the LTTE is also part of this conspiracy.