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Thousands protest outside UN headquarters in Geneva

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Thousands protest outside UN headquarters in Geneva, demanding distinct Tamil state

GENEVA (AP) - Thousands of protesters gathered from all over Europe on Monday to demand recognition of an independent Tamil state.

Police said nearly 9,000 protesters assembled in the main square in front of the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, where they marched, waved flags and bandied placards.

The protesters were "demanding that the international community recognize an independent Tamil state in the island of Sri Lanka," said Shan Thavarajah, vice president of the Swiss Tamil Forum, which organized the protest.

The demonstration was planned to coincide with the start on Monday of the fifth session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, which runs through June 18 in Geneva.

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have been fighting since 1983 for a separate homeland for the country's 3.1 million minority Tamils in the north and east, following decades of discrimination by successive Sinhalese-majority governments.

Some 70,000 people have died in more than two decades of fighting, including about 5,000 in the last 19 months.

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