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Buddhist monks protest Miliband visit to Sri Lanka |
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Updated at:
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PST, Wednesday, April 29, 2009 |
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COLOMBO: Buddhist monks led a demonstration outside the British High Commission in Colombo Wednesday to protest against the visit of foreign minister David Miliband, witnesses said.
Monk legislators from the ruling coalition accused Miliband, who arrived in Colombo earlier Wednesday with his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner, of supporting "terrorism."
The two ministers are in Sri Lanka to press demands for a ceasefire in the government's war against Tamil Tiger rebels. They also want greater humanitarian access to the island's war zone where some 50,000 civilians have been trapped by the fighting.
"Miliband is not a representative of the civilised world, he is a representative of terrorists," a monk shouted as police kept a close watch on the hundreds of demonstrators.
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