British Tamils block Westminster Bridge, demand ceasefire

by Tamiya | April 6, 2009 at 10:24 pm

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British Tamils have pleaded from the British House of Commons to demand ceasefire from Sri Lanka. As the situation is getting poorer by each passing day for Tamils in the war zones, the Tamils Diaspora is forming stronger momentum to voice the denied rights of Tamils in Sri Lanka.

The protesters also pleaded to let Tamils stay in the regions and let them live freely. Resettlement and post-war constructions are planning to be used by the Sri Lankan Government to show a "rosy" picture of the Tamils regions, while many Tamils refugees are being stashed away in the concentration camps like "refugee camps". The captured Tamils regions are operated as open prisons with no freedom to exercise basic rights.

British Tamils block Westminster Bridge, demand ceasefire [TamilNet, Tuesday, 07 April 2009, 01:16 GMT]
More than 5,000 British Tamils on Monday launched a sit in outside the House of Commons in London demanding an immediate stop to Sri Lanka's "genocidal war" against Eezham Tamils. The protest, led by youth, started in the green opposite the British parliament Monday noon and the demonstrators moved to Bridge Street blocking all traffic through Westminster Bridge and Victoria Embankment around 3.00 p.m. The protesters waved hundreds of Tamil Eelam national flags and carried signs and placards depicting the plight of civilians being killed in the attacks by the Sri Lankan forces and demanded an immediate ceasefire.

The continuous killings of Tamils civilians in the war zones have resulted in over 4,700 deaths and more than 1000 of these are children.

The Sri Lankan government continues to deny media and monitor access to the war zones to keep a tight lid on Tamils' sufferings & death toll.

Planned removal of Tamils from the war zones into concentration camps further poses the threats of destroying the Tamils refugees' dignity into shreds, and implementing Systematic Sinhalese Settlements into the Tamils regions.