http://bdcburma.org organised a 24hr hunger strike in solidarity with Burmese political prisoners starting at 9am on Wednesday 26 November in Parliament Square, London. Pictures copyright (C) 2008, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.
From the pavement outside Parliament (with Mandela)
Free Burma
Call to the UK Government
Free All Students
Free Aung San Suu Kyi
Those taking part wore white clothing, both because this is the prison uniform in Burma and also because white represents police.
While I was taking pictures there was heavy traffic past the demonstrators and their banners, and a number of motorists sounded their horns to express support for the cause.
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Two corrections
30.11.2008 16:39
somehow my attempt to write that white stands for peace ended up as police rather than peace.
Secondly although the event was publicised via the Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) web site, I'm told it was actually organised by UK members of the NLD, the Burmese political party of which Aung San Suu Kyi is the General Secretary and which won the elections there.
Peter
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