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Home | Friday 24th April 2009 | Issue 673

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TIGER TIGER BURNING BRIGHT

Recent Tamil protests against the continuing humanitarian disaster in Sri Lanka (See SchNEWS 672, 665) continued this week when at least 3,500 Tamils blocked off Parliament Square, London, this Monday (20th).

The protesters assembled around the makeshift tent of hunger striker Parameswaran Subramaniyan, now into his second week. The UN estimates 4,500 civilians have been killed in the conflict in the last three months and that there are currently up to 110,000 refugees fleeing the fighting.

* See http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1228

Keywords: demonstration, parameswaran subramaniya, parliament square, sri lanka, tamil tigers


 

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