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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 08:32 PM
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Tamils set for Geneva mass march over Sri Lanka - U.N.
Source: Reuters

GENEVA(Reuters) - About 20,000 Tamils from across Europe are expected to protest in Geneva on Friday at Sri Lanka's military offensive against Tamil rebels, the United Nations said on Thursday.

Police in the Swiss city, which is home to the U.N. European headquarters and to many Tamil immigrants, said 200 buses from across Europe were expected to bring protesters in.

Demonstrators were expected to wind through Geneva in the afternoon and then rally in the public square in front of the U.N.'s Palais des Nations complex, where Tamils held smaller protests in past weeks as fighting intensified in Sri Lanka.

A Tamil man in his mid-20s killed himself by pouring gasoline on his body and setting himself alight during one demonstration last week.

Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-38109320090219
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