Protesters against Sri Lankan government demonstrate near the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, Wednesday, March 4, 2009. Protesters call for Sri Lanka to be suspended from the Commonwealth for human rights abuses against the Tamil community (AP Photo/Akira Suemori).
LONDON – They have fled a quarter-century of horrifying civil war in Sri Lanka for safe haven abroad, but the more than 250,000 Tamils living in Britain have not managed to put the conflict behind them.
Thousands plan to gather Saturday for the funeral of a young man who burned himself to death to dramatize the situation in Sri Lanka, where starving Tamil civilians have been caught between advancing government troops and the once-feared Tamil Tigers, whose long, bloody quest for an independent homeland has been nearly crushed. More>>
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