Sri Lankan Tamils on hunger strike in Oslo

Some 20 Sri Lankan Tamils held a hunger strike Wednesday outside Norway’s government offices which they blocked for the second straight day, urging Oslo to act in its role as mediator in the Sri Lankan conflict.
Norwegian television showed the hunger strikers camping out under tents raised in front of the office of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, who is currently on holiday.
“Norway has let us down,” the Tamils shouted.
The demonstrators demanded to meet with a senior government official and urged Norway to call an emergency meeting of Sri Lanka’s aid donors to bring an end to the government’s offensive against a rebel holdout in the northeastern part of the island.