Outside our parliament as I write this a young Sri Lankan is starving himself to death. It is statement of utter desperation to be heard, for the suffering of his people to be taken seriously.
Here are two extraordinary photographs that I sourced from the BBC.
As you may know the Tamil Tigers have fallen back into a so called ‘safe zone’ in Northern Sri Lanka. Its a bit like those SAFE ZONES we set up in Bosnia from where Serb death squads took the men and killed them whilst the UN did nothing. This SAFE ZONE is a bit different. The Sri Lankan army are just bombing it. Many, many civilians have died. Over 5000 according to the UN.
The evidence?
What do you do if someone throws a bomb at you?
Run away. Only problem for the Sri Lankans is that you can only run so far before you hit the sea.
BEFORE
AFTER
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You are right about that, not much space to run! Lol, but its all good now since the war is over