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Clashes between Tamil protestors and Police in London

by Suranee | May 18, 2009 at 10:18 pm

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Pro-Tamil protestors clashed with the police outside Britain's parliament.

LONDON - Five people were arrested and at least 16 injured in clashes outside Britain's parliament as police tried to disperse 2,500 Tamils protesting against the Sri Lankan army.

Just hours after Sri Lanka declared total victory in their decades-long civil war against ethnic Tamil Tiger rebels on Monday, the protesters massed outside parliament for what had been a peaceful gathering.

But clashes broke out when police tried to push the demonstrators along in order to re-open the street.

Scotland Yard said a total of 21 officers received minor injuries.

A total of 21 officers received minor injuries, a spokesman for Scotland Yard said.

Some of the demonstrators wore head bandages soaked in fake blood as a symbol of solidarity with the Tamils while a few others burned a Sri Lankan flag.

6 Tamils on their seventh day of a hunger strike to protest against the government's military offensive, sat huddled under blankets in a tent.

Many of Monday's demonstrators wore head bandages soaked in fake blood as a symbol of solidarity with the Tamils, while several protesters were greeted with cheers as they burned a Sri Lankan flag.

Six Tamils, including two women, on their seventh day of a hunger strike to protest against the government's military offensive, sat huddled under blankets in a tent.