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Tamils at Valikaamam North continued their protest, now into day 3, against the on-going Sri Lankan military land grabs and enforced High Security Zones within the North-East, despite intimidation and threats.
Vehicle owners transporting demonstrators to the protest site were threatened and had nails thrown at their tires in attempts to prevent the hunger strike gaining mass support.
Tweeting from the protest, the leader of the Tamil National People’s Front party, Gajen Ponnambalam, took the following images:
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The Valikaamam protest organisers also received public death threats earlier this week.
The chief minister of the Northern Province C.V Wigneswaran and several other council members were also present at the protest.
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