Blackcap cricketers cowardly behaviour a focus of protest

GPJA will be supporting the Tamil community in a protest tomorrow, Sunday 6th September, Aotea Square at 12.30pm.

The protest will include a replica barbed-wire camp to be set up with cricketers and others playing outside the camp.

We are angry at the cowardly behaviour of the Blackcap cricketers who pulled the plug on offering humanitarian support to the 280,000 Tamil people forcibly incarcerated in military camps by the Sri Lankan government.

Instead the cricketers went to Sri Lanka and entertained those responsible for years of brutal repression of the Tamil population and who now conduct a campaign of organised terror against the civilian Tamil population.

The Blackcaps pulled out of a proposal to support a milk powder supply for the camps after Dave Currie (NZ Cricket manager with the Blackcaps) refused to allow the cricketers to take part in any humanitarian gesture. Currie says he fears for the safety of the players. If helping feed starving people with milk powder is going to compromise player safety then what are the Blackcaps doing in Sri Lanka in the first place?

The team has cowered in silence, complicit in the oppression of the Tamil population.

John Minto

Mike Treen

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