NEW BOOK ON WAR CRIMES
The Tamil Refugee Council urges the Abbott government to back up its words in parliament and release, and rehabilitate, all children, including four-year-old Febrina, who are being seriously damaged by incarceration on Nauru.
PACKER AGREES TO WATCH ‘NO FIRE ZONE’
Melbourne, Saturday - The Tamil Refugee Council welcomes the decision by Crown Resorts boss James Packer to view the Emmy-‐nominated British documentary ‘No Fire Zone’ as he prepares to build a new casino in Sri Lanka.
ORANGE LIFEBOAT PLAN FOR TAMIL ASYLUM
Melbourne, Sunday - Australia was planning to use its controversial orange life-boats to send back to India 157 Tamil asylum-seekers held on the high seas for three weeks, the Tamil Refugee Council has learned.
TAMIL FATHER SAYS THANKS FOR HALTING DEPORTATION
The father of a three-year-old girl on the disappeared Tamil asylum-seeker boat has welcomed the news that she and the other 152 people on board have not been sent back to Sri Lanka.
AUSTRALIA’S MORAL AND LEGAL
The Australian government has reached a frightening new low as a human rights’ denier and perpetrator, the Tamil Refugee Council said today.
TAMIL MAN DIES AFTER SELF-IMMOLATING IN GEELONG
The death through self-immolation of a Tamil asylum seeker in Geelong on Sunday is further evidence that the Australian Government’s refugee policy is killing people, a spokesman for the Tamil Refugee Council said today.
REJECTED ASYLUM-SEEKER SELF-IMMOLATES IN SYDNEY
The man, believed to be in his late 20s, was taken to Concord Hospital after dousing himself in petrol outside his workplace in Balmain and setting himself alight. He has burns to about 98 per cent of his body. He is in an induced coma, having undergone at least two skin-graft operations.
TAMILS STUNNED
A shocked Tamil community has condemned three Victorian Labor MPs for sacrificing basic human decency for a free trip and a blinkered ride to an audience with one of the world’s most notorious war criminals, Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa.
CLARKE URGED TO RE-THINK HIS SRI LANKA DECISION
The Tamil Refugee Council has urged the Australian cricket captain, Michael Clarke, to re-think his decision to promote James Packer’s casino venture in Sri Lanka.