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Protest Against Sri Lankan Cricket Team

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Australians for Tamil Rights, a newly formed coalition intends to protest the Sri Lankan cricket team’s visit to Melbourne.

“Why has the Sri Lankan cricket team included a player who is an artillery gunner in the Sri Lankan Army? The Sri Lankan army is being investigated for war crimes by the United Nations” said Sue Bolton, spokesperson for Australians for Tamil Rights.

“Australia has been at the forefront in defending human rights around the world. Australians for Tamil Rights feels that it is time that Australia shows its concern for the hundreds of thousands of Eelam Tamils who have been subjected to inhuman treatment by the Sri Lankan government.”

“The Sri Lankan government uses cricket to promote its image as a decent and sports loving country and spends millions of dollars annually for that purpose. This is to hide the country’s reputation as a big human rights abuser,” she said.

In 2009 the Sri Lankan Army killed more civilians than were killed in all other conflicts combined in that year.

Forty thousand Tamil civilians were killed in the first few months of 2009 and three hundred thousand Tamil civilians were locked in prison camps for 12 months. There were many disappearances of civilians from these camps and many journalists were killed for trying to report on the conflict.

Australians for Tamil Rights along with other humanitarian organisations calls upon the Australian government and the public to show their solidarity with the Tamils in condemning the human rights violations taking place in Sri Lanka by protesting the Sri Lankan cricket team during their match in Melbourne on November 3.

The details of the protest against the Sri Lankan cricket team are:

Protest Sri Lanka: The massacre of Tamils is just not cricket

Wednesday 3 November

12noon

corner Brunton Avenue & Richmond Cricket Ground, near the MCG

For information: Sue Bolton 0413 377 978

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