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Guardian, UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/26/tamil-protest-hunger-strike-sri-lanka

Tamil hunger striker 'could die in a week'
Oliver Shah
The Observer,
Sunday 26 April 2009


A Tamil student on hunger strike outside Parliament Square may have
only a week to live, the doctor looking after him warned yesterday.


Prarameswaren Subramaniam, 28, has refused food for 20 days in protest
at the Sri Lankan government's continuing military assault on Tamil
separatists. Speaking from the makeshift camp opposite Westminster, Dr
Sellappah Nallanathar, of St Peter's Hospital, Surrey, said that his
vital organs would begin to fail if he maintained his fast for another
week.


"It's going to be difficult," he added. "I'm asking him to take small
sips of water and it's the water that is keeping him going. Even with
the water this morning, we had to try a few times before he would take
it. If he doesn't want to [take food] we can't force him. He's
determined to carry on."