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Save our People, Tamil march and rally, London - pictures

Terence Bunch | 21.06.2009 09:10 | Globalisation | Repression | Terror War | World

After the final assault finishes in Sri Lanka and 130,000 Tamil citizens are left dead, displaced, missing or detained by the Sinhalese in concentration camps, the British Tamil diaspora continue with their campaign to open the worlds eyes.

Concentration Camp.
Concentration Camp.

Children inside the pen.
Children inside the pen.

Red flags, Black flags and questions.
Red flags, Black flags and questions.

Human Rights, Genocide, War Crimes and...
Human Rights, Genocide, War Crimes and...

The image of an elderly woman now dead.
The image of an elderly woman now dead.

Where is my nephew?
Where is my nephew?

Downing Street.
Downing Street.

The Tamils united.
The Tamils united.

Pause and reflection...for a moment.
Pause and reflection...for a moment.


After the final assault finishes in Sri Lanka and 130,000 Tamil citizens are left dead, displaced, missing or detained by the Sinhalese in concentration camps, the British Tamil diaspora continue with their campaign to open the worlds eyes.

They gather at Hyde Park in London and march to Embankment. At their head, is a graphic representation of the situation is it now stands, a detention pen symbolising a Sri Lankan concentration camp.

Behind the pen, tens of thousands of Tamils hold black flags to remember those who have died on the island.

They are joined by a rank of women carrying framed images of relatives that have been lost. Among the flags are thousands of placards setting out the primary injustice suffered by the Tamils and questions left unanswered.

London, UK. 20/06/2008.

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Numbers again

24.06.2009 02:03

What is the number of 130,000 about?

Is it not there are upto 300, 000 detained illegally in camps alone.
This after the international communit yurged for them to leave what was turned into a war zone, their traditional homeland.

Are you saying there were another 130, 000 people in the Vanni apart from the 300, 000 in recently put up camps.

There are many camps for refugees from war and tsunami separate to the recently opened ones.

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