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<DIV><STRONG>Please Circulate</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>I have been requested to circulate the following information.</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Using copy and paste and the live email links to the media given below</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>it is possible to send the standard ;letter to all of them in just a few minutes</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Please take this action and then send this request to as many people as you can</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana>Dear all,<BR> <BR>We need to<B> bombard</B> the British media (especially the tabloids not covering the story) with e-mails <B>demanding</B> that the seizure of the humanitarian ship by the Sri Lankan Navy taking aid to the island be reported. We need to exert the necessary pressure upon the Sri Lankan Government to release the ship. <BR> <BR>Please send to all your friends and work colleagues. Please send the e-letter below to the following e-mail addresses (kept short so it will only take a few minutes):<BR> <BR>Daily Mail news@dailymail. co.uk </FONT><A href="http://us.mc246.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=news@dailymail.co.uk" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face=Verdana><mailto:news@dailymail.co.uk></FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> , Telegraph dtnews@telegraph. co.uk </FONT><A href="http://us.mc246.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dtnews@telegraph.co.uk" target=_blank
rel=nofollow><FONT face=Verdana><mailto:dtnews@telegraph.co.uk></FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> , <BR>Financial Times news.desk@ft. com </FONT><A href="http://us.mc246.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=news.desk@ft.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face=Verdana><mailto:news.desk@ft.com></FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> , Daily Express news.desk@express. co.uk </FONT><A href="http://us.mc246.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=news.desk@express.co.uk" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face=Verdana><mailto:news.desk@express.co.uk></FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> , <BR>Independent newseditor@independ ent.co.uk </FONT><A href="http://us.mc246.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=newseditor@independent.co.uk" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face=Verdana><mailto:newseditor@independent.co.uk></FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> , Daily Mirror mirrornews@mirror. co.uk </FONT><A
href="http://us.mc246.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mirrornews@mirror.co.uk" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face=Verdana><mailto:mirrornews@mirror.co.uk></FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> ,<BR>ITN itvplan@itn. co.uk </FONT><A href="http://us.mc246.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=itvplan@itn.co.uk" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face=Verdana><mailto:itvplan@itn.co.uk></FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> , BBC news@nationalnews. co.uk </FONT><A href="http://us.mc246.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=news@nationalnews.co.uk" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face=Verdana><mailto:news@nationalnews.co.uk></FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> , Sky news.plan@bskyb. com </FONT><A href="http://us.mc246.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=news.plan@bskyb.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face=Verdana><mailto:news.plan@bskyb.com></FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> <BR><BR>------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ----- <BR><BR>Dear Sirs,<BR> <BR>I am saddened to hear that the ship-borne consignment of aid raised by the Tamil diaspora in Britain and Europe, destined for Tamil refugees in Northern Sri Lanka (known as the Mercy Mission (www.vannimission. org </FONT><A href="http://www.vannimission.org/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face=Verdana><http://www.vannimission.org/></FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> ), has been <B>seized while in international waters by the Sri Lankan navy</B>. <BR> <BR>The ship (the Captain Ali) has over 800 tons of invaluable aid (food and medicine) on board. It has the <B>full backing</B> of 31 British MPs and a large number of celebrities includin g Joanna Lumley, Maya Arulpragasam (M.I.A.) & Brian May (guitarist from Queen). <BR> <BR>It is presently languishing off the port of Colombo after being boarded by the Sri Lankan
Navy. We fear for the crew, passengers and cargo. Every day it stays there </FONT><FONT face=Verdana><B>another Tamil child goes hungry. <BR></B> <BR>The Sri Lankan government is disingenuously claiming the ship is funded by Tamil Tiger backers but in truth it was chartered and supported by a number of charities including White Pigeon, Tamil Health Organisation, Tamil Aid, Tamil Schools Sports Association, Technical Association of Tamils, Tamil Support Foundation and by the cross-community campaigning group <B>ACT NOW:</B> <B><I>Stop human rights abuses in Sri Lanka</I> www.act-now. info <A href="http://www.act-now.info/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><http://www.act-now.info/></A> </B>.<BR> <BR>We urge you to report on this outrageous and inhumane act. We urge you to ask the Sri Lankan Government to justify denying this aid to Tamil civilians. We also urge you to ask them when they will release the ship so the
aid can reach the needy refugees in northern Sri Lanka? <BR> <BR>Yours <BR> <BR> <BR>(Your Name</FONT><BR></DIV>
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