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சிங்கள நாட்டின் துடுப்பாட்டத்திற்கு எதிராக நடைபெறும் கவனயீர்ப்பினை நிறுத்த முடியாமல் தோல்வியுற்ற அவுஸ்திரெலியாவில் இருக்கும் சிங்கள நாட்டுத்தூதரகம்

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SRI LANKAN HIGH COMMISSION FAILS TO STIFLE PROTESTS

Sydney, Friday -- The Sri Lankan Government has failed dismally in its attempts to shut down the protests against itscricket team, according to Boycott Sri Lanka Cricket Campaign.

 

BSLCC spokesperson Trevor Grant said today the Sri Lankan High Commissioner, Admiral Thirasa Samarasinghe, hadtried to stop the rallies, as he forecast he would, but had not been successful.

 

“I have recently learned through my cricket contacts that the High Commissioner rang the authorities at theMelbourne Cricket Ground and demanded that they stop the protests,” said Grant, a former cricket writer and sportswriter at The Age and Herald Sun newspapers in Melbourne.

 

“One source told me that the High Commissioner was reminded that this was Australia and protesting was not illegal."

 

The protests against the Sri Lankan cricket team will continue this weekend, with another rally at the Sydney CricketGround on Sunday, where Australia plays Sri Lanka in a day/night international. The rally begins at 12.30 p.m.,outside the SCG, near the corner of Driver Avenue and Moore Park Road.

 

The protesters will wear black armbands in memory of the Tamil refugee who committed suicide recently in Perth,and in memory of all refugees who have died in their efforts to secure a life free from terror and oppression inAustralia.

 

The Sri Lankan Government has used several methods to try to intimidate protesters, including employingoperatives, some believed to be from the High Commission, to take photographs and video film of individuals.

 

“These people with their cameras were very obvious in the first two protests at Melbourne and Sydney. But sincethe recent publicity about them, they appear to have backed off, at least in an overt way,” Grant said.

 

Admiral Samarasinghe, who has been accused of war crimes as the commander of the Sri Lankan Navy when warships bombed and killed thousands of innocent civilians in hospitals and schools towards the end of the civil war in2009, made it clear in a radio interview last month that he wanted to stop the protests.

 

“I have taken up the matter with relevant authorities.... These planned events, distributing leaflets, havingdemonstrations, these are part of a long-term plan and a game plan,” Samarasinghe told presenter Liam Cochraneon the ABC Radio’s Connect Asia program on December 12 last year.

 

“The so-called diaspora is agitating. There are calls for (Tamil) separatism still, including in Australian soil taking advantage of freedom of speech and freedom of expression.”

 

Protestors in Sydney on Sunday will once again be calling on the Australian Government and Cricket Australia to haltall future tours and matches against Sri Lanka until the brutal Sri Lankan regime agrees to an independent inquiryinto war crimes and crimes against humanity at the end of the civil war in 2009, as called for by a UN-commissionedreport, and until it ends its ruthless persecution of the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka.

 

They will also be demanding that the Australian Government stop persecuting Tamils who are fleeing terror in theirhomeland and pursuing their legal right to asylum in Australia.

 

BSLCC has been buoyed by a Melbourne Age newspaper readers’ poll, which showed 66 percent of respondents wanted a ban on Sri Lanka from world cricket.

 

BSLCC has been endorsed by many people, from all walks of life and different countries. They include Australianauthor Thomas Keneally, highly-acclaimed US international law expert Professor Francis A. Boyle, renownedAustralian QC Julian Burnside, Greens MP Senator Lee Rhiannon, Sydney Peace Foundation chair Professor StuartRees, former Australian deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Bruce Haigh, journalist and professor WendyBacon, NSW Greens MPs David Shoebridge and John Kaye, Norwegian film-maker Beate Arnestad, Uniting ChurchMinister Rev Richard Wootton, Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at University of Sydney associate ProfessorJake Lynch, independent author and journalist Antony Loewenstein, Brisbane medical practitioner Dr BrianSenewiratne, and former Kennett Government Minister, Robert ‘Robin’ Cooper.

 

Every major Tamil organisation in Australia, as well as European-based Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka, hasalso endorsed BSLCC.

 

These include Tamil Youth Organisation, Australian Tamil Congress, Australian Federation of Tamil Associations,Eelam Tamil Association, Tamil Refugee Council and Tamil Voice Radio.

 

Melbourne radio 3CR, the Refugee Action Collective (Victoria) and Refugee Action Coalition (NSW) have alsoendorsed BSLCC.

 

For further information contact:

 

TAMIL YOUTH ORGANISATION: Kartheeban Arul, 0457 322 130.

 

BOYCOTT SRI LANKA CRICKET CAMPAIGN (BSLCC): Trevor Grant, 0400 597 351.

 

REFUGEE ACTION COALITION: Mark Goudkamp, 0422 078 376.



-Boycott Sri Lanka Cricket Campaign

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