Dangleway Revisited, Tamils Protest Killings: On Tuesday twenty third July 2013 I revisited the Museum of Docklands after which took the DLR to Royal Victoria for an additional journey on the Arab Emirates cableway in a detour on my means into central London to {photograph} a rally by Tamils at Downing Road.
One other Dangleway Experience – Royal Victoria Dock to North Greenwich
It was just a few weeks since my first journey on London’s cable automobile throughout the River Thames, however I used to be in docklands for a second go to to the ‘Estuary’ present on the Museum of Docklands. As a kind of featured within the present I had been on the opening, however that was extra about assembly folks than seeing the work, although I had taken a brief have a look at all of it.
The dangleway is pretty pointless when it comes to transport, however is one in every of London’s cheaper vacationer points of interest, and although brief it joins two areas of some curiosity. I suppose the views won’t be to everybody’s curiosity, although I discovered them fascinating, and its definitely the most cost effective method to perform a little aerial images.
Extra footage at One other Dangleway Experience.
Tamils Protest Sri Lankan Killings
Tamils have lengthy been the topic of discrimination in Sri Lanka, and the Civil Battle there from 1983 to 2009 towards the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam resulted in round 100,000 Tamil civilain deaths, in addition to round 50,000 fighters on all sides. The figures are unclear because the Sri Lankan authorities has at all times refused unbiased, worldwide investigation to determine the complete affect of the conflict.
In line with Wikipedia, “Because the finish of the civil conflict, the Sri Lankan state has been topic to a lot international criticism for violating human rights on account of committing conflict crimes by means of bombing civilian targets, utilization of heavy weaponry, the kidnapping and massacres of Sri Lankan Tamils and sexual violence.”
The Tamil Tigers additionally turned infamous for assaults on civilians, suicide bombings. assassinations and using little one troopers. The ultimate levels of the conflict in 2006-9 have been notably bloody, and led to a complete defeat of the LTTE.
The British Tamil Discussion board at had come to Downing St on the thirtieth anniversary of the 1983 Black July when 3000 Tamils died in riots throughout Sri Lanka in an anti-Tamil pogrom orchestrated by the federal government.
This was not the primary anti-Tamil pogrom, however its unprecedented frenzy of violence was a turning level after which Tamils knew they may by no means be secure in a state dominated by the Sinhalese.
Within the 4 years because the Mullivaikkal Bloodbath of 2009 Tamils declare that an estimated 147,000 Tamils are both useless or lacking, they usually see the one resolution because the formation of an unbiased Tamil state – ‘Tamil Eelam.’
The protest known as on the UK to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Authorities Assembly (CHOGM 2013) in November 2013 hosted by Sri Lanka. They see this as legitimising a state which has been severley criticised by the UN and human rights organisation for the atrocities it has been committing.
Individuals on the protest signed letters and playing cards calling on HRH The Prince of Wales to uphold the values of the Commonwealth and rethink his choice to attend CHOGM 2013.
Extra footage Tamils Protest Sri Lankan Killings.
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