Sri Lankans burn Miliband effigy at British Embassy

More than a thousand Sri Lankans protested outside the British Embassy in Colombo today, accusing the British government of supporting the Tamil Tiger rebels and burning an effigy of Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

Sri Lankans burn Miliband effigy at British Embassy

More than a thousand Sri Lankans protested outside the British Embassy in Colombo today, accusing the British government of supporting the Tamil Tiger rebels and burning an effigy of Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

The protest in the capital erupted hours after the rebels essentially conceded defeat in their quarter-century war with the Sri Lankan government.

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