'Over 900 Tamils' were arrested after the deadly bomb attacks

Deputy Minister for Vocational and Technical Training P Radhakrishnan told BBC Sandeshaya that 'nearly 99.9 percent' of those arrested are ethnic Tamils.

Radharishnan, a member of the Up Country Peoples Front (UPF), warned that the party will have to 'reconsider' its support to Mahinda Rajapaksa government if government continues with harassing Tamils in Colombo.

'Only Tamils'

Those arrested on Sunday are kept in police stations and other public places including schools, he added.

Nearly 99.9% of those arrested are ethnic Tamils. 51 Tamil women detained in Boossa camp Deputy Minister P Radhakrishnan

The police and security forces have tightened security after at least 20 people were killed in a suicide bomb blast and a parcel bomb attack in Colombo, on Wednesday.

The Tamil Tigers are accused of targeting Social Affiras Minister Douglas Devananda in a suicide blast and killing innocent civilians in a crowded shopping complex in Nugegoda.

The deputy minister said at least 450 Tamils are detained in the infamous Boossa detention camp since Saturday.

Call for protest

"There are 51 Tamil women among those detainees," he told BBC Sinhala.com.

Majority of those arrested did have formal identity cards including national identity card or police registration certificates, according to the minister.

Vote against the ER to send a message against 'indiscriminate arrests' and government's lack of political proposals WPF leader Mano Ganeshan

The leader of the Western Peoples Front (WPF), Mano Ganeshan, has called on all ethnic Tamil parliamentarians to vote against the Emergency Regualtions.

The Colombo district parliamentarian has called on all Tamil legislators, irrespective of political differences, to send a message against 'indiscriminate arrests' and government's lack of political proposals to end bloodshed.