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  1. Sri Lanka: Debt restructuring and restraining dissent

    Inquiry to investigate existing electoral laws and regulations within the next six months. The aim of the ... ethno-nationalist political leaders who have committed acts of genocide but are attempting to regain lost ... efforts to curtail fundamental freedoms of speech, association and dissent. This attack on basic human ...

  2. Sri Lanka: Thousands of Tamils still detained, torture alleged

    of those who surrendered were released after three months. 鈥淢y son was conscripted by the LTTE in ... April鈥, she said. 鈥淥ver 11 months鈥 of captivity, different interrogators asked me the same questions ... g_glw_sl_2010_smm12.jpg Thousands of people have been queuing at the government-appointed Lesson Learned and ...

  3. Abbott endorses CHOGM, downplays torture

    in a month in 2009, but that Sri Lankans of all ethnic backgrounds continue to be subject to torture, ... refugees to flee to Australia, but to deny genocide itself. In the aftermath of the Sri Lankan ... the international legal definition of genocide. However, none of these facts stopped Australian ...

  4. Tamil dinner says oppression continues in Sri Lanka

    of the war. Dr Siven Seevanayagam told the audience that 鈥渟tructural genocide鈥 takes place in Sri ... Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Tamil liberation Naarm/Melbourne More than 500 people attended a dinner of ... of Tamil people in Sri Lanka, who have been subject to discrimination, oppression and massacres at ...

  5. Sri Lanka: Tamils 'still want independent state'

    democratic forms of decision making. Last year, elections for delegates to the TGTE were held in 12 ... possible human rights abuse of Tamil civilians and combatants in the last months of the war in 2009. The ... genocide. 8. Protect the equality of women and all Tamils. 9. Provide welfare of families of martyrs, former ...

  6. Tamils not safe under Sri Lankan rule

    presence and 鈥 there鈥檚 no Tamils in the military. 鈥淥n top of that, there are 12,000 suspected combatants ... April 9, the Australian Labor Party government, then led by Kevin Rudd, imposed a three-month suspension ... of the processing of refugees from Sri Lanka. On July 6, the Labor government of PM Julia Gillard ...

  7. The case for boycotting Sri Lankan cricket

    war, repression, and genocide. My discovery of the truth since those naive childhood days has seen my ... posturing about human rights these days, Australia has a sordid history of being a denier, or passive ... I learned all about the wonderfully-welcoming country of Australia that, in 1948, had been a leader at the ...