Another Tamil Rally Descends On U.S. Consulate

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Posted May 9, 2009 11:53 pm.

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And at Queen’s Park, Gunabalasuntharam Veerakathipillai is on his seventh day of a hunger strike to protest the sectarian violence in Sri Lanka.

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