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Marking International Women's Day, the Sinhala women's group - Lakmawa Diyaniyo - held a protest outside the US Embassy in Colombo, demonstrating against the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay and the resolution tabled on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council earlier this week.
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Carrying placards stating "No cries for war crimes" and "Navaneetham AMERICAN CATS-POW" under an image of the High Commissioner, hundreds of Sinhala women, marched through Colombo, before arriving at the embassy.
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Pledging that they would "never surrender", the women proceeded to smear the photograph of Pillay with blood, before throwing it on the floor, stamping on it and hitting it with their shoes.
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See video of the protest by Daily Mirror below:
The protest follows a similar protest led by Sinhala Buddhist monks earlier this week in front of the UN building in Colombo, and coincides with a protest arranged by British pro-Sinhala groups in London, outside Downing Street, later today.