Cutting Room Floor: Flag and Dissent

By Roll Call Staff

Posted November 24, 2009 at 3:24pm

[IMGCAP(1)]Mahala Ngan, a Sri Lankan who now lives in Canada, participates in a recent protest in Upper Senate Park, calling on the U.S. government to intervene in the mistreatment of the ethnic Tamil people in Sri Lanka.

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