For the second day in a row, Indian Malaysians demonstrated against former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa outside the Putra World Trade Centre in Malaysia, The Malay Mail Online reports.
Numbering roughly 50 people, the non-governmental group calling itself “Protest” lobbied for the immediate deportation of Rajapaksa who was visiting in conjunction of the 9th International Conference of Asian Political Parties.
“Tamils in Malaysia are strongly protesting the invitation extended to the War Criminal who had committed numerous crimes against humanity and demand for his immediate deportation,” the group’s coordinator Satees Muniandy said in a preemptive statement.
The group carried several effigies of Rajapaksa made of cloth and wood and on which they stuck posters of his face, which they then set on fire and watched until they had burned to ashes. They later stomped on the remnants.
Police personnel on security duty outside the trade centre kept an eye on the demonstrators but made no move to stop their antics, not even when the protesters sat on the road and blocked cars from driving in for a good 15 minutes.
Rajapaksa was Sri Lanka’s sixth president who won a 26-year war against Tamil Tiger separatists in 2009.
-Agencies
