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அவுஸ்திரெலியா ஊடகங்களில்(தொலைக்காட்சிகள், வானொலிகள், பத்திரிகைகள்) வந்த அவுஸ்திரெலியாவில் நடைபெற்ற வட்டுக்கோட்டை தீர்மானத்திற்க்கான மீள்வாக்களிப்பு பற்றிய செய்திகள்(காணொளிகள் இணைக்கப்படுள்ளன)

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6 April 2010 ABC TV News

7 April 2010

SBS Radio

http://www.sbs.com.au/podcasts/Podcasts/world-view/episode/79022/Expat-Lankans-organise-referendum

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Australian Tamils to vote in referendum

10 April 2010

The following article is based on a statement that appeared on www.vkr1976.com.au.

Over April17-18, the Tamil community living in Australia will take part in a referendum on self-determination for Tamil Eelam.

Eleven voting centres will be set up in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.Tamils in other parts of Australia will vote by post. The referendum is being carried out by an independent electoral body.

Tamils will vote on the following resolution: “I aspire for the formation of the independent and sovereign state of Tamil Eelam in the north and east territory of the island of Sri Lanka on the basis that the Tamils in the island of Sri Lanka make a distinct nation, have a traditional homeland and have the right to self-determination.”

The Tamil diaspora in Norway, France, Canada, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Britain have already held referendums, with the overwhelming majority in all countries voting “yes”.

The resolution is similar to the Vaddukkoddai Resolution (VKR) of 1976.

This was adopted at an All Tamil Political Party convention held in Vaddukkoddai to consider their future directions and available options to win equal rights for the islands’ Tamils.

The VKR said: “We are hereby committed to the restoration of the free, sovereign, secular state of Tamil Eelam based on the right of the self-determination inherent in every nation. This has become inevitable to safeguard the very existence of the Tamil people of Sri Lanka.”

This resolution resulted from the Tamil political leaders realising that a political solution within one country — Sri Lanka, where the Sinhalese are a permanent majority — would not be possible while most Sinhalese political parties were united against treating Tamils as equals.

Since the defeat of the Tamils’ armed resistance in May 2009, the Sri Lankan government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa is in the process of implementing racist policies against the Tamils with more vigour and determination.

The Tamil diaspora decided to test the resolve of Tamils on the VKR and to present the results to the concerned international community. It aims to persuade the Sri Lankan government to negotiate in good faith with legitimate Tamil representatives to find a lasting political solution to the ethnic conflict that has continued since independence in 1948.

The Tamil diaspora exists because of the Sri Lankan constitution of 1972, which deprived Tamils of their nationhood. Further, the VKR also clearly states the Tamils of Eelam origin, living in any part of the world, have a say in the nationhood of Eelam Tamils.

Since May 2009, there has been no functioning leadership in Eelam for Tamils. Tamil leaders are being eliminated and others are being intimidated and bought off by the Rajapaksa government.

The duty to protect Tamils in Eelam is the responsibility of the Tamil diaspora because they are is the only Tamil people with the time, resources and political space to exercise their political will.

The referendum will provide a chance to test the will of the Tamil people in a democratic way.

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2010/833/42836

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Tamil vote on pressing case for homeland

AUSTRALIAN Tamils are to vote in a referendum this weekend on the creation of an independent Tamil homeland.

The Tamil Congress of Australia said more than 10,000 Tamils had registered to vote in the referendum, which follows similar votes in Canada, England and Europe that backed the establishment of a Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka.

A spokesman for the Tamil Referendum Council of Australia, Bobby Sundaralingam, said polling booths had been set up in Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT and there was provision for postal votes.

Organisers hoped the results of the referendums would pressure the Sri Lankan government to allow a Tamil state.

But not all Tamil organisations in Australia support the move. The Melbourne-based Justice and Freedom for Ceylon Tamils refuge and humanitarian action group has instead sent a petition to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Immigration Minister Chris Evans and Foreign Minister Stephen Smith calling for the 215 special humanitarian visa for Sri Lankans to be restored.

Its chairman, Ramalingam Wickramasingham, said this would stop the boatloads of Tamil refugees coming to Australia. He said Tamil refugees ''never came by boat'' until 2000, when the the Coalition government suspended the visa.

''There is no other official legal avenue in Sri Lanka for asylum seekers to apply to come to Australia, such as other countries have,'' he said.

Dr Sundaralingham said that since the end of the war, about 100,000 Tamils were held in internment camps and some had been tortured and abducted.

''Tamils in Sri Lanka are voiceless and in a state of despair,'' he said. ''It is the duty of the diaspora to be their voice and express what the Tamil people want.''

http://www.theage.com.au/national/tamil-vote-on-pressing-case-for-homeland-20100416-sklu.html

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Radio FM 90.7 – Syn Radio

David Feith from the Australia-Tamil Solidarity speaks on the Vaddukoddai Referendum

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy

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15 April 2010

The Wire

Australian Tamils cast their vote

Produced by Annie Hastwell

At least ten thousand Australian Tamils are expected to take time out to vote in a referendum this weekend - and its pretty certain that most will vote yes to the idea of a separate state for the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. Dr Sam Pari from the Australian Tamil Congress says the result will have little political significance but will serve as a tool to show that the world that the Tamil diaspora supports the cause of tamil independence.

http://www.thewire.org.au/daydetail.aspx?SearchDay=2010-04-15

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இன்று புதன் கிழமைதான் வாக்குகள் எண்ணப்படும். தபால் மூல வாக்களிப்பிற்காக புதன் கிழமை வாக்குகள் எண்ணப்படுவதை அறிந்தேன்.

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=31572

Australian Tamil referendum attracts media, provokes Colombo's envoy

[TamilNet, Monday, 19 April 2010, 23:35 GMT]

More than 10,000 registered to cast their votes in the referendum across Australia last weekend, on the creation of independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka, reported SBS Australia, citing organisers. However, the success of mass participation provoked Colombo's envoy to retaliate that "the Tamils who are in Sri Lanka at the moment are perfectly happy to go on with the present system. It is only the Diaspora who are trying to force this thing on the people in Sri Lanka”. But, it won the support of John Dowd, the president of the International Commission of Jurists in Australia, SBS said, citing him saying that the referendum highlighted the aspirations as well as the plight of Tamils in the island of Sri Lanka. "Australians need to be reminded that there is a common obligation to these people who for centuries or indeed millennia have led their own lives there," John Dowd further said.

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