| The four men start their hunger strike in Parliament Square two days after Mr Subramaniyan ends his hunger strike at day 23. Image courtesty of global Peace Strike. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009. |  |
A placard calls on the International Community to bring sanctions to bear on the Government of Sri Lanka. The IC have, despite the call, completely failed to exercise influence over the GOSL (Government of Sri Lanka) and British Government representatives have faired little better. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009. |  |
Images illustrate the appalling cost to the Tamil people of the Sri Lankan war pf proscription and the cost to the IC of failing to invoke independent monitoring or securing the safety of independent journalism. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009. |  |
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| Tamils from the worldwide diaspora gather in London to support the second Hunger Strike. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009. |  |
The statues of British wartime leader, Winston Churchill and David Loyd George stand over the demonstration. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009. |  |
Tamil women join the men by wearing gags to symbolise the removal of their voices as a result of the removal of their only body of political representation, The Tamil Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009. |  |
| The four men from left to right are Sivatharsan Sivakumaravel aged 20, Hariram Shanmugathas aged 24, Sivarajan Satkunarajah aged 26 and Premanathan Hariendran aged 20. Their main demands are Immediate and permanent ceasefire in Sri Lanka, Food and Medical aid with International monitors to the Tamil civilians in the Liberation (LTTE) controlled areas and Recognise the LTTE as the only representatives of the Tamil people and de-proscribe the organisation. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009 |  |
One of the Hunger Strikers wears the red and yellow colours of the LTTE. Contrary to popular and, depressingly police opinion, the red flags the Tamils have been waiving in Parliament Square are not LTTE flags but are, in fact, the National flags of Tamil Eelam. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009 |  |
The crowd wait in the rain for a statement from the British Government and a formal commitment to bring competent pressure to bear on the Sri Lankan Government, given their brutality, by whatever means necessary. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009 |  |
The four men start their hunger strike in Parliament Square two days after Mr Subramaniyan ends his hunger strike at day 23. Image courtesy of global Peace Strike. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009.
A placard calls on the International Community to bring sanctions to bear on the Government of Sri Lanka. The IC have, despite the call, completely failed to exercise influence over the GOSL (Government of Sri Lanka) and British Government representatives have faired little better. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009.
Images illustrate the appalling cost to the Tamil people of the Sri Lankan war pf proscription and the cost to the IC of failing to invoke independent monitoring or securing the safety of independent journalism. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009.
Tamils from the worldwide diaspora gather in London to support the second Hunger Strike. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009.
The statues of British wartime leader, Winston Churchill and David Loyd George stand over the demonstration. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009.
Tamil women join the men by wearing gags to symbolise the removal of their voices as a result of the removal of their only body of political representation, The Tamil Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009.
The four men from left to right are Sivatharsan Sivakumaravel aged 20, Hariram Shanmugathas aged 24, Sivarajan Satkunarajah aged 26 and Premanathan Hariendran aged 20. Their main demands are Immediate and permanent ceasefire in Sri Lanka, Food and Medical aid with International monitors to the Tamil civilians in the Liberation (LTTE) controlled areas and Recognise the LTTE as the only representatives of the Tamil people and de-proscribe the organisation. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009
One of the Hunger Strikers wears the red and yellow colours of the LTTE. Contrary to popular and, depressingly police opinion, the red flags the Tamils have been waiving in Parliament Square are not LTTE flags but are, in fact, the National flags of Tamil Eelam. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009
The crowd wait in the rain for a statement from the British Government and a formal commitment to bring competent pressure to bear on the Sri Lankan Government, given their brutality, by whatever means necessary. Parliament Square, London, UK. 04/05/2009
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