Thursday, 26 June 2008

Commemorate the Life and Work of Miss.Maheswary Velautham

Maheswary Velautham Memorial Committee

Invites you to a meeting to


Commemorate the Life and Work of Human Rights Activist,

Miss Maheswary Velautham, LLB,

Who was brutally assassinated (gunned down) at her family home in Karaveddi, Jaffna, Sri Lanka on 13 May 2008,

on

Sunday 13 July 2008
from 11.30 a.m. to 5.00 pm

at the

Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square, London WC1
(nearest tube: Holborn )


Speakers from Sri Lanka and the Diaspora including

Professor Tissa Vitharana – Minister, APRC Chairman, Sri Lanka

Ingrid Massage – Amnesty International, UK

Nissam Kariyapper - SLMC, Sri Lanka

Mr Varathakumar – Tamil Information Centre, UK

M K P Chandralal - Forum for Human Dignity, Sri Lanka

Teresa O'Donoghue - Art of living, India

And others.

‘Maheswary Velautham was a powerful voice, an able lawyer, a dedicated human rights activist, a humane social worker, a religious humanist, a modern rationalist a remarkable philosopher, an excellent orator and a unique writer. She was a literateur who dedicated herself to clear conscience’
- Dr. T. C. Rajaratnam

Rsvp: mageswarymemorialcommitee@gmail.com