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'Brown Briton' ignored by government and media ? 29 Days passed

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'Brown Briton' ignored by government and media ? 29 Days passed

[ jpq;fl;fpoik, 12 khHr; 2007 ] [ yf;];kd; ]

Cries of institutional racism in the British Foreign Service and the British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) have once again been ignited, after both organizations ignored the plight of a 'brown' national who was abducted in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo last month. Mr Vijayakumar, a neutralised British citizen who valued himself every bit British as he was Tamil was abducted from outside his residence on Perera Lane in Wellawathe on Wednesday, 31 January 2007. Eyewitnesses identified the abductors as being 'armed men' riding in a 'white van'. The usual frenzy that surrounds abductions of Britons in Iraq, Nigeria and elsewhere has not materialised in this case. BBC appears not to know of the case, while the Foreign Service has also shunned away from its' responsibilities for the safety of a British National. Many point to the fact that unlike other abduction victims, Mr Vijayakumar is a 'Brown Briton' which makes his fate somewhat 'valueless' for organisations such as the BBC. Efforts to contact the BBC and the Foreign Service have been in vain as both phones rang without answer. White Van Death Squads are allegedly operated by Sri Lankan government forces. They first appeared during a Sinhalese working class uprising in the 1980s. Thousands of youths were 'taken away' in white vans only never to return. They latter reappeared during the late 90s in Jaffna after the peninsula came under Sri Lankan military occupation. Again thousands of youths, this time Tamils, were taken away never to return. The numbers of incidence involving armed men in white vans have once again increased since the election victory of hard-line Sinhalese President Mahinda Rajapaksa in November 2005. Mr Vijayakumar is a cousin of a prominent Tamil Nationalist scholar Professor Karthigesu Sivathamby.

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