"As they increase the onslaught, more and more civilians are dying.
They don't differentiate between civilians and Tigers," Khalyan Ganeshamoorthe,
one of the protesters, told Al Jazeera.
Some demonstrators waved red LTTE flags,
while others carried a mannequin representing a dead woman on a stretcher,
with a sign reading "Caused by government force".
The ethnic Tamil community in Britain numbers around 250,000 to 300,000 people
and in recent weeks it has organised several large protests in London to put pressure
on the British government, the former colonial power in Sri Lanka, to act.
'Genocide'
Suren Surendiran, one of the organisers from the British Tamils Forum,
described the situation in Sri Lanka as "genocide".
This is not only Surendran words, the entire world is against srilanka goverments genocide
"Our first demand is that we want the government to get a resolution at the UN to implement a ceasefire so that the war can stop," Surendiran said.
"The second demand is to send in humanitarian aid and medical supplies.
"And the third demand is for independent journalists and international NGOs
[non-governmental organisations] to be allowed into the area to see directly what is happening."
Two demonstrators have been on hunger strike since Tuesday.
One stopped his protest on Saturday after being offered the opportunity
to take his case to the UN,
while the other agreed to take liquids after doctors warned he faced renal failure.
Protests were also held in the capitals of France, Norway and Denmark on Saturday.
According to the UN, more than 2,800 civilians
may have been killed in the conflict in northern Sri Lanka
in the last two months alone.
About 100,000 civilians are believed to be effectively trapped between
the army and the LTTE in a "no fire" zone - a 20sq km coastal strip .
The LTTE says the military has repeatedly shelled the "no fire" zone.
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