10 Years since Mullivaikkal massacre
London. Sat 18 May 2019
Tamils met up in Stratton St, next to Green Park station
With some long horns and Tamil Eelam flags
A placard calls for the UN to stop protecting genocidal Sri OLank.
Drummers prepare for the march
and men dressed as prisoners in bloodied cloths along with their captors
who threaten them
Props for the march
Velupillai Prabhakaran, founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers
of Tamil Eelam, killed by Sri Lankan Army in May 2009
The Sri Lanka government’s census figures show that 146,679
Tamils remain unaccounted for since the end of the war,
Guards aim sticks as guns at bloodied 'prisoners' on Piccadilly
The LTTE was a presribed organisation but Tamils are now engaged in
peaceful campaigns
After the ceasefire there were meant to be transitional arrangements
to give greater devolution - but it has yet to happen
The Tamils want a referendum over independence
and an end to the occupation of their areas
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