Thursday 11 March 2010 The Cambridge city group of Amnesty International invited Manny Thain, Tamil Solidarity national secretary, to address its meeting last Thursday. Manny explained the origins of Tamil Solidarity – set up as […]
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGENT ACTION SRI LANKAN ACTIVISTS THREATENED On 2 March, a Sri Lankan news website, Lankanewsweb, published the names of human rights defenders and journalists featured on a list it alleged was compiled by […]
by James Naish http://www.student-direct.co.uk/2010/03/sri-lanka-a-crises-overlooked/ Between 1983 and 2009, Sri Lanka was engulfed by the raging civil war between the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The World Health Organisation […]
**UPDATE: Indonesian police have reneged on undertaking that the two Tamil asylum seekers arrested on Thursday night would be released (main story below). The two arrested asylum seekers have been taken to immigration detention in […]
Here we publish a press release from Safecom. If this represents a change in policy by Kevin Rudd’s Labour government then it is a positive development. However, as the statement is unclear, no one should […]
We will not remain silent while Tamil refugees suffer out of the sight of the world’s media. That was the message to the Australian High Commission in London on Wednesday 10 March. That date marked […]
“Australian government should act to end this suffering now” – “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung at 10 March demonstration http://chinaworker.info/en/content/news/1000/ 150 days on a cramped, squalid boat. That is the ordeal faced by 254 refugees from […]
Internationally many organisations condemn the Australian and Indonesian governments for their failure to grant asylum rights for the Tamil-speaking refugees in Merak, Indonesia. Below is a joint statement which has been produced by a number […]
On 3rd of March Tamil Solidarity held a student meeting in Manchester University, with the help of the Socialist Students society. Manchester University students came to the meeting to find about what is happening in […]
[TamilNet, Saturday, 27 February 2010, 01:55 GMT] Six Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were taken into custody for allegedly molesting a nine-year-old Tamil girl at Ki’raan Vaazhaichcheani in the eastern Batticaloa district, sources in Batticaloa […]
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