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TAMIL independence campaigners may have “faked” their outrage after receiving throat-slitting gestures from a Sri Lankan military attache, a London court heard today.
Army Brigadier Priyanka Fernando, who is linked to the shelling of a hospital during Sri Lanka’s civil war, was caught on camera making the chilling hand gesture towards members of the country’s Tamil minority.
Three activists lodged complaints immediately after the incident, which took place at a protest outside the Sri Lankan embassy in London in February last year.
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