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Sat. 20th June, London: Save the Tamils Mass Protest

Mark | 17.06.2009 21:33 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles

Call for ALL non-Tamil activists & Autonomous Block in London to come out and support this demo!
Mass Protest March This Saturday starts at 1pm from Hyde Park Corner.
March to save the Tamils in Sri Lanka, in the face of naked Sinhalese fascism
- a conservative estimate of 50,000 Tamils, mainly civilians , have been killed this year
- Mass cover-up of war-crimes, use of chemical weapons, mass graves
- 280,000+ civilians who have been displaced by the military offensive against the Tamil Tigers are living in appalling conditions where disease is rife and where there are insufficient medical supplies. Young girls being abducted from the camps, dissenters are disappeared
- Ship carrying medical aid refused entry on June 4th and turned away from Sri Lanka
- Continued ongoing repression of independent media & of government critics
FASCISM IS ALIVE & WELL IN THE 21st CENTURY IN SRI LANKA, while the world stands idly by.

MASS PROTEST MARCH
Let's March To Save our People!
on
Saturday, 20 June 2009
in Central London
Starts at 1pm from Hyde Park Corner - Park Lane
(Nearest Stations: Hyde Park Corner / Marble Arch)
Ends at Temple - Embankment

Tens of thousands killed this year alone. Over 13,000 disappeared from the internment camps.

Let us urge the International Community to ACT NOW at least to:

* Stop the disappearences from the camps and missing persons must be found
* People in camps must be allowed to return to a normal way of life immediately
* The perpetrators of the Genocide must be brought to Justice

Please join to show your support.

PLEASE INFORM AND BRING ALONG EVERYONE OF ALL AGES

We must all urge the wider community to voice our calls with us - Please make every effort to bring non-Tamils with you to march with us!


For further information please contact 020 8808 0465

Please also go to:  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LegacyofColonialism/message/2124


Previous articles sent to Indymedia on this story here:



See also:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/431104.html
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/431083.html
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/430187.html
 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/426451.html
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/430894.html
&
 http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1347


Links:

Appeal to World Leaders for release of Dr. Shanmugarajah, Dr. Varatharajah and Dr Sathiyamoorthy
Ref:  http://voiceagainstgenocide.org/vag/node/106

 http://www.act-now.info
 http://www.srilankacrisiscamps.org/
 http://www.warwithoutwitness.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=232
 http://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions_details.asp?ActionID=608
 http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/news-2009-05-20.html
 http://www.tamilnet.com
 http://www.srilanka-genocide.org
 http://www.unspeakabletruth.info
 http://www.tamilsagainstgenocide.org
 http://www.tamilsforum.com


News stories of particular interest:

Vanni IDPs live under appalling condition: Sri Lankan Chief Justice
[TamilNet, Thursday, 04 June 2009]
Ref:  http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=29520

Camp disappearances reach alarming levels - Rights advocate
[TamilNet, Sunday, 14 June 2009]
Ref:  http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=29593

Tamils languishing in Sri Lankan Death Camps, by Richard Dixon
Ref:  http://my.telegraph.co.uk/richarddixons/blog/2009/06/13/tamils_languishing_in_sri_lankan_death_camps

Sri Lanka accused of 'ethnic cleansing' of Tamil areas,
by Dean Nelson, The Daily Telegraph
Published: 26 May 2009
Ref:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/srilanka/5382676/Sri-Lanka-accused-of-ethnic-cleansing-of-Tamil-areas.html

Evidence of the use of chemical weapons during the recent SLA offensive:
 http://www.warwithoutwitness.com/images/stories/PDF/WWWReport_SriLankaUseChemicalBombs_08thApril2009.pdf



Other important info:

Important evidence for the historic root of Sinhalese human rights
abuse and discrimination (3 old articles from The Times of London from
1956):
 http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1956-05-28-08-001&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1956-05-28-08
 http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1956-05-31-09-001&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1956-05-31-09

Important evidence of latest human rights abuses:
 http://www.infobass.com/documents/5May-Tamil-Genocide-Vanni-Situation-Report.pdf
 http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0902368.htm
 http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1956-06-06-08-001&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1956-06-06-08

Mark

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