99.38 விகிதமான அவுஸ்திரெலியாத் தமிழர்கள் வட்டுக்கோட்டைத்தீர்மானத்துக்கு ஆதரவாக வாக்களித்திருக்கிறார்கள்

மொத்த வாக்குகள் - 8272

நிராகரிக்கப்பட்டவை - 67

நிராகரிக்கப்படாதவை - 8205

ஆம் என வாக்களித்தோர் - 8154 (99.38%)

இல்லை என வாக்களித்தோர் - 51 (0.62%)

Edited April 22, 201015 yr by கந்தப்பு

Australian Tamil referendum polls support for independent homeland

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Updated April 22, 2010 11:08:47

Economic recovery after thirty years of civil war and the Tamil question will hover like ominous rain clouds over over Sri Lanka's new Parliament. President Rajapakse and the military may have defeated the Tamil Tiger rebels, but the aspirations of Tamils on the island are by no means ended. And it would seem Sri Lankan Tamils have the support of their relatives overseas. Preliminary results from a referendum held last weekend in Australia show an overwhelming majority of Australian Tamils support the creation of an independent Tamil homeland.

Presenter: Sen Lam

Speakers: Dr Sam Pari, Australian Tamil Congress

Listen: Windows Media

PARI: It was a national referendum so people all the way from Perth to Sydney to Canberra, all over Australia participated.

LAM: So what do the early results tell you?

PARI: The early results show us that an overwhelming majority, more than 99 per cent have voted in favour of a creation of an independent Tamil homeland.

LAM: Is the Australian Tamil sentiment shared by the Tamil diaspora worldwide? For instance have similar exercises been held abroad?

PARI: Yes, up to ten countries have had similar referendums recently, including the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries in Europe and the pattern has been the same, the overwhelming majority I would say about 99 per cent in each of those countries have voted in favour of an independent Tamil homeland.

LAM: Is the Tamil diaspora certainly here in Australia, are the Tamils here encouraging the Tamil Tigers to regroup or do you think the message is a far more peaceful one?

PARI: The message is that the Tamil people have always wanted an independent homeland, this was before the creation of the Tamil Tigers and we wanted to show the world that this aspiration still exists after the military defeat of the Tamil Tigers last year in May. So the reality is that the Tamil people feel that the only solution to the continuing persecution, oppression of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka is for the creation of a Tamil homeland where Tamil people can rule themselves.

LAM: In a way that's not a solution is it, because it's certainly not a political solution because the Sinhalese majority will certainly never agree to a separate independent Tamil state?

PARI: Well if you go back and look at history, the Tamils had their own kingdom before British colonisation, and when the British left they really should have left the island the way they had found it, but instead the Tamils went from British colonisation to Sinhala colonisation. So what the Tamil diaspora are asking, and many Tamils in Sri Lanka share the same sentiment, what we're asking is for an independent Tamil homeland to be declared in the area of the north and east where the original Tamil kingdom existed, and we want the international community to help the Tamil people in achieving this goal. And we have seen other countries form new independent homelands be created once the international community steps in and helps with these negotiations.

LAM: Well as you say the Tamils had their own kingdom but times have changed and do you think it's a bit unrealistic to expect the Sinhala majority to willingly give back those lands, to willingly hand back control after almost a century of a unified Sri Lankan state?

PARI: Well the reality is the Tamils wouldn't have asked for this solution if not for the continuing persecution and oppression of the Tamil people. For decades, ever since the British left and granted Sri Lanka independence we have seen Tamils being persecuted, oppressed, discriminated in the employment and the education system, government-backed violence unleashed upon the Tamil civilians. And it's these successive systematic discrimination and oppression that has caused the Tamil people to ask for this, because the majority of the Tamil people feel this may be the only solution.

LAM: Do you think the Tamils, not just the diaspora, but certainly Tamils in Sri Lanka, that they'll be happy enough if the government allows for more equitable treatment of Tamil minority, allows for greater equal rights, and in fact revert to the good times of when Sri Lanka was still Ceylon and Tamils enjoyed far greater rights?

PARI: Well that question has to be answered by the Tamils in Sri Lanka and the diaspora, Tamil community is calling for an independent referendum led by maybe the United Nations in Sri Lanka so that we can find out what the Tamils in Sri Lanka really want. At the moment the Tamils there feel very intimidated, they are interrogated and even the recent presidential as well as the parliamentary elections showed us that the Tamil people in Sri Lanka did not vote, did not participate in the voting and the few who did vote felt very intimidated or were subject to interrogation in that process.

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/201004/s2879851.htm

51 பேர் இஞ்ச்செயும் இருக்கிறாங்கள் கந்தர்...

பரவா இல்லை...

Actualy this is not very bad..

Well Done Tamil Australians

ஐயா.அரசகட்சி அவர்கள் இருக்கிற வரையில உதுக்கெல்லாம் ஆப்படிச்சுப் போடுவாங்களாம்; சொல்லீனம்; தங்களிண்ட இராய தந்திரத்தாலயாம். பேந்தென்ன செய்யலாமென்டு யோசிச்சா நல்லதெண்டு.... கதக்கினம் ஊரில. ஆனா ஒண்டு சொல்ல வேணும் பாருங்கோ...உப்பிடியான வாக்கு விசயங்களால தான் ஐயா சந்திரன கூட அசக்க முடியும். தெண்டிச்சா முடியாததும்......

51 பேர் இஞ்ச்செயும் இருக்கிறாங்கள் கந்தர்...

பரவா இல்லை...

Actualy this is not very bad..

Well Done Tamil Australians

எங்கட சனத்தில சிலர் சொல்லினம் யாழ்ப்பாணத்தில வன்னியில சனம் பிரச்சனையில்லாமல் நிம்மதியாக இருக்கிறது. உங்களுக்கு தேவையில்லாத வட்டுக்கோட்டைதீர்மானம். ஆகவே நான் எதிராக வாக்களிப்பேன்

ஈழத் தமிழரைக் கல்யாணம் செய்த வேறு இனத்தவர்கள் சிலரின் வாக்குகள் எதிராக விழுந்திருக்கலாம். சில தமிழர்களின் துணைவி, துணைவன் சிங்கள இனத்தைச் சேர்ந்தவர்களும் இருக்கலாம்.

அவுஸ்திரெலியாவில் நடைபெற்ற வட்டுக்கோட்டை தீர்மானத்துக்கு ஆதரவாக 90 வீதத்துக்கு அதிகமான தமிழர்கள் தனி நாடு வேண்டும் என வாக்களித்ததாக அவுஸ்திரெலியாப் பாராளுமன்றத்தில் பாராளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர் Cohen Mr Ian(Green party) அவர்கள் ஆற்றிய உரை

TAMIL REFUGEES

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Mr IAN COHEN [5.00 p.m.]: I refer to the dilemma of the Tamil in Sri Lanka and their vote on a solution to asylum seeking problems. A landmark referendum was held last weekend to establish whether the Australian Tamil community supports the creation of an independent State Tamil homeland. More than 10,000 people registered to vote and more than 90 per cent voted in favour. The initiative is based on the Vaddukoddai Resolution—a mandate for independence drafted by Tamil leaders in 1976 in Sri Lanka, only to be rejected by the Sri Lankan Government, which conveniently changed the constitution to make it illegal to espouse for an independent State. The persecution and oppression of the Tamil people by the Sri Lankan State has seen an influx in asylum seekers arriving by boat from the island. Australian Tamils feel this initiative will give them a chance to democratically show their view on how the root cause of the problem can be resolved.

Votes were cast at polling booths in locations across New South Wales, Victoria and Canberra on 17 and 18 April via postal votes for participants from other States. Similar initiatives have taken place across the globe, including Canada, the United Kingdom and other European nations. Results there have established an overwhelming mandate supporting a sovereign Tamil homeland in the island of Sri Lanka. The Asian Network for Free Elections sent 16 international observers from 10 different countries to observe the last Sri Lankan parliamentary elections. It issued a report on 10 April, which confirms what Tamils have been voicing repeatedly:

observers have doubts about the process at the IDP camps some IDPs were allegedly threatened to vote for a particular party polling staff were recording ID car numbers on the counterfoil and ballot papers of IDPs and the general public

Associate Professor Suvendrini Perera from Curtin University wrote in the Age:

The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence reported that in the parliamentary elections held in Sri Lanka on April 8, voter turnout in the Tamil capital of Jaffna was only 10 per cent, while across the country the election drew "probably the lowest turnout figures in recent history" due to the erosion of "public trust and confidence". The centre recorded 85 major incidents during the election period, including attempted murder and intimidation of voters.

In Sri Lanka's Sunday Times, respected lawyer Kishali Pinto Jaywewardene writes of facing an election "presided over by an Elections Commissioner who has lost every shred of his credibility as an independent conductor of the electoral process". She adds: "It may well be tempting to sink into the delusion that this country is at peace because no bombs are exploding on the roads and the rate of tourist arrivals has doubled. But the reality is that without principle governance, these become mere superficial markers heralding an outbreak of violence later, even if decades down the line".

Holding elections is itself no assurance of democratic governance. The election itself only generated 55 per cent voter turnout overall and 18 per cent in the Tamil-dominated north, according to the Centre of Monitoring Election Violence. I am concerned that this difficult circumstance for Tamils in Sri Lanka is continuing. On the other hand the Prime Minister has declared Tamil areas as settled territory. I believe, and others have stated, that that is in total disregard of international law. Hence we have the arrival in north-western Australia of people who have fled in fear of their lives from a regime that does not recognise human rights. The Prime Minister has targeted two main ethnic groups in this case, the Tamils and the Afghans. The United Nations still cannot get its officials to determine the level of settled status of the two countries concerned.

Because the Australian Government has refused to accept refugees it undermines what is internationally accepted as status and claim. The Prime Minister really does not have a right to single out any group. A reasonable fear of personal safety should be the criterion to allow people to come as refuges and get that status through proper processes. The only precedent in recent history was the Howard Government's refusal to process Iraqis. The United Nations has failed to decide the matter but the Australian Government has made its decision and therefore Tamils and Afghans—[Time expired.]

http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LC20100422047

எமக்கும் எமக்கு ஆதரவான அரசியல் வாதிகள் இருக்கிறார்கள் தான் கந்தர் ஆனாலும் அவர்கள் ஒரு சிறு எண்ணிக்கையானோர்.

அநேகமான அரசியல வாதிகளுக்கு உண்மை எதுவென்று தெரிந்திருந்தாலும் இலாபநட்டக் கணக்கை பார்த்து ஒதுங்கி விடுகிறார்கள்.