Tamil community leader Patrick Ratnaraja has begun work on a welfare group for Croydon’s Tamil population.
Mr Ratnaraja met with the All Tamils Benevolent Association at Elmwood House, Elmwood Road, to discuss the creation of a welfare group for Tamils who have lost loved ones in the bloody conflict that has cost thousands of lives.
They discussed ways to help people with mental illness, especially those affected by the recent conflict in Sri Lanka.
Mr Ratnaraja said: “The Tamil community in Croydon is hurt, angry and disappointed that there was no one to help their friends and relatives who were slaughtered by the Sri Lanka forces.
“The British Government has stood by while thousands of innocent lives have been lost.”
Sri Lanka army spokesmen have recently announced an end to the fighting.
So far nearly 500,000 people have been displaced from the fighting in the north of the country, a region the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) tried to hold onto as their own independent state.
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