Final day of Sivanthan's hunger strike ended with the support of large crowd of people
[ Monday, 13 August 2012, 01:46.58 PM GMT +05:30 ]
Sivanthan Gobinath started his hunger strike with five action demands towards international community and engage continues hunger strike for past twenty two days. He ended his hunger strike protest on the day of closing ceremony of London Olympic Games.
Large crowd of people gathered at the last day of the hunger strike and casted their support to Sivanthan. Former parliamentarian Jayanadamoorthi began the last day of the hunger strike event held at 4.00 pm near the Stafford railway station in London.
Long term Tamil activist Mrs. Sivayogamma Jayasinghe feed fruit juice for Sivanthan and ended his hunger strike protest. Mr.Jayananda Moorthi, Mr.Subramaniyam Parameswaran, Mr.Kandaiya Rajamanoharan, Mr.Danam head of the British branch of Tamil Coordinating group, member of the Tamil youth group Miss, Sobi Sivachandran were also delivered speech at this event.
Speeches MDMK party general secretary Vaiko, leader of the Tamil Pothuwudamai party Mr.P.Maniyarasan were broadcasted at the event.
Sivanthan delivered a speech end of the event. He thanked all the people supported him for the past 22 days specially he thanked youths stand beside him. He also mentioned sacrifices and the power of forty thousand mahaweerarkal help him to engage in this hunger strike and finally added such protests would continue in future.
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