2018-07-25T04:13:54+00:00

BILOELA REFUGEE

The Tamil Refugee Council today again criticized the federal government’s immigration laws, following the failure of a Tamil family’s Federal Circuit Court appeal to be granted the right to stay in Australia.

2018-07-25T04:17:52+00:00

IMPENDING DEPORTATION

The Australian government’s decision to deport to Sri Lanka a former ranking member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) puts at risk his safety and possibly his life, the Tamil Refugee Council said today.

2018-07-25T07:29:32+00:00

SRI LANKA VISIT

Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull’s enthusiastic embrace of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and PM Ranil Wickremesinghe is reprehensible.

2018-07-25T07:28:55+00:00

DROWNED AND SAVED

He was 16 at the end of the war in Sri Lanka, a child. He escaped forced recruitment by the LTTE because his older cousin volunteered to fight in his place.

2018-07-25T07:28:21+00:00

ABDUCTION ISLAND

Sri Lanka has used abductions as a way to instill fear since the days of civil war. In the last three decades, 60,000 people have gone missing.