**Tamil Parliament Protest**
ttt | 20.04.2009 13:00
Today, Parliament is finally sitting again after having been absent from Westminster for Easter holidays.
Tamils have stepped up their protests, as 10-15 000 protesters are currently blocking Parliament Square and Whitehall, while the riot police is blocking Westminster Bridge.
As a non-Tamil having been on the demos, I was shocked to see how little support there has been from non-Tamil individuals and communities. The Sri Lankan government has used collective punishment, chemical weapons, cluster bombs and bloody counterinsurgency tactics against the Tamil population in Sri Lanka, barring humanitarian and press access.
It's time to show solidarity!
Tamils have stepped up their protests, as 10-15 000 protesters are currently blocking Parliament Square and Whitehall, while the riot police is blocking Westminster Bridge.
As a non-Tamil having been on the demos, I was shocked to see how little support there has been from non-Tamil individuals and communities. The Sri Lankan government has used collective punishment, chemical weapons, cluster bombs and bloody counterinsurgency tactics against the Tamil population in Sri Lanka, barring humanitarian and press access.
It's time to show solidarity!
ttt
Comments
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Support the protests/ numbers?
20.04.2009 14:24
supporter
numbers?
20.04.2009 14:35
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going well
20.04.2009 18:15
They seem to have caught the Intelligence gathers from the met off guard this morning!
Good luck to them all!
support
BBC
20.04.2009 21:21
Peter Piper
Incorrect.
20.04.2009 22:35
The previous comment is typical of Sri Lankan misinformation. The Tamils have had to put up with this since the Sri Lankans started the operation. It amounts to this.
We are killing the Tamil people and its all their fault.
Circa Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza and now the Tamils. The operation to discredit the Tamils is all part of their eradication.
No
Srilankan Crisis!
21.04.2009 17:40
For those who believe in Karma and wise would know that everyone is responsible for their actions and will have to pay for their actions for all those people who value the life of another Human being and value Justice and Human rights then they should be asking themselves this question, If the Sri Lankan Gov in not committing Genocide of its Minority Tamil speaking people then why then the Sri Lankan government has been refusing to allow Independent monitors and journalist to the conflict zone which is the norm in any conflict! If they are trying to save the Tamil people from the Tamil tigers as they claim, Why then they have been refusing journalist visa to western journalist since last year including the time and Independent form the UK for example? Every time they claim they are trying to save the Tamil people form the LTTE Who’s ways and methods have not always been correct in their struggle to free Tamil the oppressing Sri Lankan state but this has been the case in many freedom struggle in history. So please ask yourself every time Sri Lanka tries justify its Action why is that its not allowing the rest of the world to see what its doing to its own people .What Sri Lanka has to HIDE from the REST OF the WORLD? Have we learned anything at all from the holocaust ? What have these people done to be treated this way? For those who choose to remain silent! You will never be excused !!! God Bless!!
Richard Jones
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