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New video footage showing an innocent bystander being thrown to the floor by a policeman at last weeks G20 demos in London highlights how police brutality towards peaceful protests in the UK has become more widespread. The bystander died 10 minutes later.
As the video below shows, this was not an isolated incident, as riot police used the demo as an excuse to act like state paid thugs, subjecting thousands to battering ram techniques, and enclosing thousands of others through a bottleneck technique in the streets, denying them access to food, water and toilet facilities for over 6 hours.
Once the public enquiry into Ian Tomlinson’s death has been concluded, an enquiry into police tactics and brutality is urgently needed too.

For over 24 hours thousands of exiled Tamils have been gathered in Parliament Square, London, calling on Western governments to intervene in the ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka. With emotions running high one Tamil man has even thrown himself into the River Thames to bring attention to their cause.

As former colonial power to both India and Sri Lanka, the British Government have a moral obligation to help the Tamil people. For too long now they have suffered grave human rights violations from the Sri Lankan military, and urgent action is required with the current conflict to prevent a full scale humanitarian crisis.

Sri Lanka’s government has rejected calls for a ceasefire with the Tamil Tiger rebel group, and the UN estimates that 150,000 people are trapped in Sri Lanka’s northern war zone.