{"id":50712,"date":"2012-08-10T11:22:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T11:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=50712"},"modified":"2012-08-13T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:32:10","slug":"london-tamil-hunger-striker-is-entering-the-15th-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/london-tamil-hunger-striker-is-entering-the-15th-day\/","title":{"rendered":"London Tamil  Hunger Striker Is Entering The 15th Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/london-tamil-hunger-striker-is-entering-the-15th-day\/gopi-sivanthan\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50713\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-50713\" title=\"Gopi Sivanthan,\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gopi-Sivanthan-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gopi-Sivanthan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gopi-Sivanthan.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Gobi Sivanthan, the hunger striker who started the campaign at Marshgate Lane, Stratford DLR, in London from 22<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of July 2012 to 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of August 2012, during the course of the Olympic competition to highlight the demands the following five key demands:<\/p>\n<p>1. IOC, suspend Sri Lanka from the Olympics<\/p>\n<p>2. UN, initiate independent international investigation into war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed by Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>3. International Community, force Sri Lanka to halt the genocidal land grabs intensifying in the Tamil homeland<\/p>\n<p>4. International Community, force Sri Lanka to release all Eelam Tamil prisoners of war (POWs)<\/p>\n<p>5. International Community, do not deport Eelam Tamil asylum seekers<\/p>\n<p>His fast is entering the 15th day.<\/p>\n<p>The video below\u00a0highlights his views on the type of solution the Tamils should accept and the key demands. <strong>TAMIL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Od8Tw3171AA&amp;feature=player_embedded<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The \u00a0video below\u00a0is on another youth, Sasithar Maheswaran from the Tamil Coordinating Committee-UK (TCC-UK). \u00a0He is firm in his conviction that only an independent Tamil Eelam can resolve the problems of the genocide affected Tamils, referring to the three types of sovereignty that the Tamils are entitled to as highlighted in the Tamil Sovereignty Cognition declaration. <strong>ENGLISH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ILZj1IYWpYk&amp;feature=player_embedded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":50713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375,2220],"tags":[3559,3555,3558,3557,3561,3560,3556],"class_list":["post-50712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","category-video-2","tag-eelam-tamil","tag-gopi-sivanthan","tag-key-demands-of-gopi-sivanthan","tag-key-demands-of-london-tamil-hunger-striker","tag-tamil-coordinating-committee-uk-tcc-uk","tag-tamil-homeland","tag-the-hunger-striker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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