LONDON Assembly member, Brian Coleman, has said that Tamil protesters should quit the London Parliament Square, Media Newswire reported yesterday (3)
His comments follow a written answer from Mayor Boris Johnson, which said that the cost to the Metropolitan Police of policing the protests between April 6 and May 18 is £7.94 million.
“£7.94 m is an enormous amount of money to spend policing this protest and it’s a total disgrace that the London taxpayer has been forced to foot the bill for a demonstration about a civil war in Sri Lanka which has nothing to do with Britain,” Mr. Coleman said.
He said that the protesters have made their point and now they should pack up and leave the square.
Thousands of Tamil protesters had been agitating at Parliament Square over the past few weeks waving LTTE flags and venting their anger towards the Sri Lankan government.
London police have had to maintain law and order during these protests and have even clashed with the protesters on at least two occasions.
The Sri Lankan government had earlier expressed disappointment over the failure by the authorities to prevent the protests from taking place in the first place.
(Courtesy: Daily Mirror)
