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பொதுநலவாய நாடுகள் அமைப்பில் இருந்து இலங்கை நீக்க வேண்டும் என கோரி, அவுஸ்திரேலிய செனட் சபையில் சமர்ப்பிக்கப்பட்ட பிரேரணை நிராகரிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இந்த பிரேரணையை அவுஸ்திரேலியாவின் கிரீன்ஸ் கட்சி, செனட் உறுப்பினர் லீ ஹனன் சமர்ப்பித்தார். எனினும் இதற்

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பொதுநலவாய நாடுகள் அமைப்பில் இருந்து இலங்கை நீக்க வேண்டும் என கோரி, அவுஸ்திரேலிய செனட் சபையில் சமர்ப்பிக்கப்பட்ட பிரேரணை நிராகரிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இந்த பிரேரணையை அவுஸ்திரேலியாவின் கிரீன்ஸ் கட்சி, செனட் உறுப்பினர் லீ ஹனன் சமர்ப்பித்தார். எனினும் இதற்கு செனட் சபையின் ஆளும் மற்றும் எதிர்கட்சிகளின் உறுப்பினர்கள் அனைவரும் எதிர்த்ததைத் தொடர்ந்து, பிரேரணை நிராகரிக்கப்பட்டது.

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  • கருத்துக்கள உறவுகள்

இவர்கள் எமக்கு சாதகமாக நீதியை பெற்று தருவார்கள் என நாமும் நம்பி காலத்தை விரயமாக்குவோம்.

இது தோல்வியில்லை, வெற்றியே. காரணம் பாராளுமன்றத்தில் இது விவாதிக்கப்பட்டதே பெரிய விடயம். இது சில உறுப்பினர்களை மேலும் ஆழமாக எமது பிரச்சனையை ஆராய தூண்டும்.

எமது பலம் - பலவீனங்களை/ முயற்சிகளை பொறுத்துத்தான் எமக்கு வெற்றிகள் கிடைக்கும். அந்த வகையில் இதுவரை பசுமைக்கட்சி ஊடாகவே எமக்கு ஓரளவு அரசியல் செல்வாக்கு கிடைத்துள்ளது என எண்ணுகிறேன்.

அடுத்தடுத்த முறைகளில் எமக்கு வெற்றி கிட்டும். முயற்சித்தவர்களுக்கு நன்றிகள். தொடருங்கள்.

  • கருத்துக்கள உறவுகள்

அவுஸ்திரெலியா ஊடகங்களில் பசுமைக் கட்சி கொண்டு வந்த தீர்மானம் பற்றி செய்திகள் வெளியிட்டு இருந்தன.

Greens call for suspension of Sri Lanka from Commonwealth

AUSTRALIA'S Greens will launch the first major challenge to Sri Lanka's Commonwealth membership today when the party calls for its suspension pending a full investigation into allegations of war crimes committed in the final months of the country's civil war. The campaign to suspend Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth kicks off tomorrow with a roundtable meeting of human rights activists and jurists involved in collecting evidence for an international war crimes probe to discuss ways of building popular support for the move.

Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he would lobby for a boycott of the proposed Sri Lanka-hosted Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2013 unless it could prove significant progress on human rights. Australia hosts the next CHOGM in Perth late next month.

Greens senator Lee Rhiannon said given the international momentum behind the push for a war crimes probe, she was hopeful of building bipartisan political support for Sri Lanka's suspension from the councils of the Commonwealth.

"We will be looking at whether delegates of the Sri Lankan government may be refused a visa to visit Australia for CHOGM if it can be proved they do not meet the 'character test' and 'public criteria test'."

Similar lobbying for Sri Lanka's suspension was occurring in Canada, she said.

A Greens Senate motion in July calling for an investigation of war crimes allegations against the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tigers received unanimous support.

International Commission of Jurists Australia member John Dowd -- a QC and former NSW attorney-general -- said the point of the campaign was to "stop the exoneration of Sri Lanka and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam from the crimes that have occurred".

"If Sri Lanka is used as a host, it ignores the fact that war crimes have been committed. The Commonwealth has to realise it can't keep being polite when one of its members is guilty of (such) crimes."

The Sri Lankan government is inching closer to a possible international inquiry after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon referred a damning independent report on alleged human rights abuses and war crimes to the Human Rights Council.

The report concluded the government was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians in a final offensive against Tamil separatists in 2009 after government troops shelled a declared "no-fire zone". Colombo has consistently denied the allegations. It also found the Tigers used civilians as human shields, shot those trying to flee LTTE-held territory and forcibly recruited child soldiers.

Pakistan was suspended from the Commonwealth in 1999 following the military overthrow of the civilian government and again in 2007. Fiji was suspended in 2000 and again in 2006 after coups.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/foreign-affairs/greens-call-for-suspension-of-sri-lanka-from-commonwealth/story-fn59nm2j-1226141212118

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Suspend Sri Lanka, say Australian Greens

A senator from the Australian Greens says her party is calling for Sri Lanka to be suspended from the Councils of the Commonwealth because it is resisting setting up a tribunal to investigate war crimes.

The Greens say they plan to hold a meeting of legal experts and community leaders to discuss how to build on growing international support for a tribunal to look into the deaths of 40,000 Tamils in 2009.

Senator Lee Rhiannon says the British and Canadian governments and the US Senate have joined the call for an independent tribunal.

"The voice missing here is the Australian Government," she said.

"I've heard today (Tuesday) that the United Nations is waiting to hear from Australia."

http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/201109/3321705.htm?desktop

Sri Lankan envoy hits back at Greens

Sri Lanka's top diplomat in Canberra has hit back angrily at an Australian Greens-led group demanding a war crimes investigation of his government.

Greens senator Lee Rhiannon on Tuesday hosted a roundtable meeting of academics and activists who want Prime Minister Julia Gillard to throw her weight behind international calls for an independent war crimes tribunal to investigate Sri Lanka.

The roundtable's participants called for Sri Lanka's suspension from the Councils of the Commonwealth and warned they may try to disrupt Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's visit to Perth for next month's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).

A series of reports have accused Sri Lanka of committing war crimes during its final 2009 offensive against the Tamil Tiger rebels. The offensive crushed the Tigers, bringing a decades-old civil war to an end.

The British and Canadian prime ministers have called for an investigation of alleged human rights violations, but Ms Gillard has so far been silent on the issue.

"The ball is with the Australian government to stand up for human rights," Senator Rhiannon said. "This isn't a time for fence-sitting."

But Sri Lanka's High Commissioner in Canberra, Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, dismissed the war crimes allegations as "unsubstantiated propaganda".

"I totally reject any of the claims," Admiral Samarasinghe told AAP from Perth, where he is preparing for President Rajapaksa's visit.

"The government had to take military action to defeat the terrorists to save the civilians.

"This whole process is being orchestrated by the defeated terrorist front organisations."

Admiral Samarasinghe - a 37-year veteran of the Sri Lankan military - said he had complained to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade about the roundtable meeting.

"We are doing our best to keep friendly countries apprised of this wrongdoing," he said.

"These people will have no opportunity to discredit my country on foreign soil."

Senator Rhiannon said the Greens and other groups did not believe President Rajapaksa's visit was appropriate.

"It does appear there are grounds for visas to be held from people who may jeopardise the public interest or the security of this country," she said.

"So this is an issue we are exploring further."

A spokesman for Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said Australia had not relaxed its visa arrangements for CHOGM.

"Normal strict visa and border integrity arrangements remain in place for CHOGM and all non-citizens seeking to enter Australia must satisfy visa requirements, including those relating to character," he said.

Sydney University academic Jake Lynch said Ms Gillard should "step up to the plate" and lead on the issue.

"What is she doing to prevent the government of Sri Lanka from getting away with war crimes?"

Australian Tamil Congress spokeswoman Sam Pari said a war crimes tribunal would deter other regimes from killing their own civilians.

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has previously expressed concerns over civilian casualties in Sri Lanka during the final stages of the war.

Mr Rudd told the Fourth Tamil Community Forum in June he believed all allegations of human rights violations should be "tested, assessed and, if accurate, substantiated".

Mr Rudd said Labor would wait to see the final report of the Sri Lankan government's own inquiry before considering the need for further inquiries.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8304595/sri-lankan-envoy-hits-back-at-greens

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