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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 8893094" data-attributes="member: 92282">Arrest Warrant requestedCampaigners apply for war crimes arrest warrant against Chagi Gallage, President Mahinda Rajapaksa's bodyguardLawyers acting for Tamil activists are in court this morning applying  for a war crimes arrest warrant against a Sri Lankan general visiting  Britain.Campaigners hope to persuade magistrates at Horseferry  Road court in central London that the officer in charge of security for  the aborted tour by President Mahinda Rajapaksa should be detained.The  president had been due to speak at the Oxford Union debating society  last night but the address was cancelled at short notice after the  threat of mass protests by Tamils in the city.<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/03/tamils-sri-lanka-general-arrest-warrant" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/03/tamils-sri-lanka-general-arrest-warrant</a><img src="http://img602.imageshack.us/img602/8864/26383390.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Lawyers are going after Maj. Gen. Chagi Gallage because he was the commander of the 59th Division of the Sri Lankan Army during the war.</blockquote>

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