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Tamil Cyclist | 03.06.2009 15:05 | SOCPA | Anti-militarism | Culture | Terror War | South Coast | World

I was on the pedal power bike rush on Monday.
As we circled parliament square like most I thought the hunger strike was by a Tamil.
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/06/431535.html
It seems not to be.
Amazing, an Englishman on strike for my people.

Hunger strike of British Aid worker enters 16th day
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 03 June 2009, 04:48 GMT]
Tim Martin, director of Act Now, a rights group formed by former British aid workers in Sri Lanka, is on a hunger striek in Parliament Square, London, calling for intervention by U.S. and other Governments to protect the massacre-survivors from the Safety Zone in Mulliaththeevu, currently being interned in Sri Lanka Army (SLA) supervised camps in Vavuniyaa. Martin handed a letter to Mr Kerry McCarthy MP, and Mrs Kerry when they visited him, and asked the MP to hand over the letter to U.S. President Obama, well wishers at the Parliament square said.

 http://tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=29516

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reasons

03.06.2009 18:54

>>> Amazing, an Englishman on strike for my people.

Not really amazing. People will and do protest for anything in this country.
Its the carnival atmosphere and getting together that are the biggest incentive

Steg


Getting together

03.06.2009 20:15

Its a depressed atmosphere down there. Certainly not a carnival like the bike ride was.
Thats why there is a lack of connection to traditional 'protests' as mentioned by you.

Tim Martin is certainly on his own as he is one of the recent eye witnesses to what got ravaged by war.
He was deported unlike a typical fellow (of his) countrymen and women who are welcomed and sent off with dancing troupes of cultural nonsense in Colombo airport. All they do is to spend their sterlings in nefarious beaches where the likes of Gary Glitter own property. God bless Tim.


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