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Sri Lanka to release 136,000 Tamil war refugees

World Nov. 22, 2009 - 02:33AM JST ( 4 )

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rajakumarNov. 22, 2009 - 08:12AM JST

Good news from Sri Lanka.
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sandyvadiNov. 22, 2009 - 08:40AM JST

Do you still believe Sri Lankan PR where media and ICRC are expelled: ICRC is begging Sri Lanka again to let them in.

The Tamil refugees are shuffled into transit camps away from their homes in an attempt to secure EU's GSP+ trade concessions; Read Washington Post report: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/10/AR2009111007723.html

There are more than 500 families of the majority community who have set up houses and are cultivating paddy in areas are refusing to leave the Tamils original homes:

http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/nov/02/tamil-idps-houses-unlawfully-occupied-in-sl.htm

Sri Lankan long term agenda is 'Degeneration of Tamils' For which Bush the Graet's 'war on terrorism' is so sweet.
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sandyvadiNov. 22, 2009 - 08:47AM JST

A moment of cruelty as reported by Sri Lankan Daily Mirror;

A mentally ill Tamil youth was beaten to death by Security forces in the capital Colombo in broad daylight.

There was no LTTE nor any aggression. Reminder of constant ethnic riots.

http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=66441

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHcn5LXh6Dg&feature=related
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puni1Nov. 22, 2009 - 01:21PM JST
Aid agencies are prevented from helping the IDPs in getting the immediate needs and to start their livelihood: http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=16332&size=A Tamil refugees going home to an open prison, 15 September 2009: “We are living in an open prison,” said Fr Seemanpillai Jayabalan, parish priest in Aripputhurai. “People have no hope for development. They have lost their property and many homes are a total write-off.” NGOs are not allowed in the area and “all aid must go through the government’s Rehabilitation Task Force,” the clergyman said.

http://www.groundviews.org/2009/11/18/180-days-after-end-of-war-the-much-anticipated-return-of-idps-an-eyewitness-account/ 180 days after end of war, the much anticipated return of IDPs: An eyewitness account, 18 November 2009: ''When I inquired about complaining the disappearance and arbitrary arrest cases to international agencies I was told that even ICRC did not have access to Manik Farm and the detention (rehabilitation) centres since July.''

It has been political and economic oppression of Tamils from the time of ''independence'':

Discrimination by government institutions

+economic embargo
- Periodic anti-Tamil pogroms
- Draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act
- Bombing and shelling
- preventing IDPs(who have been displaced around the Northeast several times and who have been denied tsunami foreign aid) from getting help from aid agencies is simply not Degeneration, it's GENOCIDE.