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இங்கேயும் வாக்களியுங்கள் எம் தமிழ் உறவுகளே!

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இங்கேயும் வாக்களியுங்கள் எம் தமிழ் உறவுகளே!

தனிமடலில் வந்த விடயத்தைத் தேவை கருதி இணைத்துள்ளேன்.

நன்றி.

Only 85 signatures from Germany? 39 from Switzerland? 26 from Netherlands? 98 from France?

Pl tell your natives - all 16 Advisory Council members are non-Tamils.

Please sign the petition and pass on asking all your friends, relatives(in other countries too), neighbours and workmates to do so - please ask your children to pass it on to their college mates and workmates - it takes less than a minute to sign the petition:

http://www.srilankacampaign.org/takeaction.htm

http://blog.srilankacampaign.org/2009/11/elders-call-on-sri-lankan-government-to.html

The Elders call on Sri Lankan government to protect rights of civilians displaced by conflict: donors also have vital role to play, 26 November 2009

It is sad Tamils have to be in this situation decades after:

Ethnic Conflict and Violence in Sri Lanka - Report of International Commission of Jurists 1981:

''The fate of the Tamils in Sri Lanka remains a matter of international concern''.

Review, International Commission of Jurists, December 1983: " The impact of the communal violence on the Tamils was shattering. The evidence points clearly to the conclusion that the violence of the Sinhala rioters on the Tamils amounted to Acts of Genocide".

Sri Lanka: Briefing Paper - Emergency Laws and International Standards, International Commission of Jurists, March 2009:

''The ICJ is deeply concerned that the approach taken by Sri Lanka over several decades, and especially in recent years, has resulted in a confusing, overbroad and all-pervasive emergency law framework that fails to protect the rights of its citizens, encourages a culture of impunity for serious violations, and exacerbates ethnic tensions and political divisions.

Even the Commonwealth oppresses the oppressed:

http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-19359--6-6--.html

CMAG needs to be reviewed and strengthened By Maja Daruwala, Executive Director

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Commonwealth Secretariat, 20 October 2009:

''.... An issue for the CoW - flagged several times by many NGOs in the Commonwealth and repeatedly by the the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative – has been the need to strengthen the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) which presently consists of rotating Foreign Ministers of Ghana, Malaysia, Namibia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, St Lucia, Uganda and United Kingdom.

.... in the case of Sri Lanka, reports of large scale civilian deaths, impunity and stifling of human rights in Sri Lanka continued to emerge throughout 2008 and 2009 but CMAG has refused to put Sri Lanka in its agenda. .... Sri Lanka itself continues to serve as a member of CMAG during this period for a third consecutive (two year) term contrary to the 1999 Durban Communiqué that limits a country to a maximum of two consecutive terms. ....Even as we write Sri Lanka still continues to serve as a CMAG member while hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities remain confined indefinitely in ill-maintained internment camps amidst un-investigated claims of war crimes and reports of widespread danger to human rights defenders and dissenters. CMAG has also been silent on other parts of the Commonwealth, for instance during the post election violence in Kenya in 2007, when freedom of assembly was curtailed in Malaysia in 2007, and for a long while on the Gambia where many basic human rights are heavily curtailed ....''

Thanks

P.Selvaratnam

Advisory Council members are working for us and therefore we should help them by getting as many signatures as possible:

http://www.srilankacampaign.org/summary.htm

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