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Hartals plague Trinco
The Alliance of Sinhala organisations in Trincomalee who staged a three-day hartal said yesterday that it was concluded successfully.

President Mahinda Rajapakse made a personal appeal to the organisers to end the hartal yesterday, as it could jeorpadise the normality in the eastern town. But the organisers claimed that they ended the protest campaign only as scheduled.

The North and East Sinhala Organisation, the Sinhala Reawakening Movement and the Sinhala Emancipation Organisation, under an umbrella group staged the hartal protesting the increasing number of attacks on security personnel.

Their actions brought Trincomalee and Kantale to a virtual standstill.
An organisation representative, Samantha Vijitha Kumara told The Sunday Times that the President’s appeal was ‘casual’ and that they did not compel their membership to heed it.

Mr. Vijitha Kumara said the President had given a firm commitment that the LTTE and the Tamil Peoples’ Consortium would not be allowed to disrupt public life in Trincomalee, and said Mr. Rajapakse had to honour the promise.
However, the Tamil Peoples’ Consortium is to recommence its hartal tomorrow which was suspended due to the Thai Pongal festivities.

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