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Controversy surrounds Australia-Indonesia pact on bogus SL asylum seekers
Friday, 30 October 2009 - 8:46 AM SL Time
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Controversy surrounds Australia s decision to keep Sri Lanka out of negotiations over Sri Lankan Tamils now held in Indonesia and Australia.
Australia recently reached a bilateral agreement with Indonesia to confine the Sri Lankans in Indonesia at Australia s expense. Well informed sources told The Island that Australia had so far not sought Sri Lanka s advice in that regard, though a section of the Australian Opposition had taken a different position.
Liberal Party MP Tony Abbott early this week urged the Australian government to initiate a dialogue with Sri Lanka regarding Sri Lankan Tamils now held in Indonesia while trying to reach Australia.
The Opposition frontliner told SBS Television s Dateline programme on Tuesday (Oct 27) that Australia should discuss this issue with Sri Lanka instead of dealing with Indonesia.
A top representative of Australia-based Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) told the programme that people fleeing Sri Lanka should be given political asylum.
Over the past two weeks, Indonesia has taken 334 Sri Lankans into custody and Australia has detained 32. Sri Lankan government sources said that they had been detained in three separate operations engineered by the Australians.
Interestingly, a fourth vessel, subsequently identified as Ocean Lady carrying 76 Sri Lankan Tamils, too, is believed to have been intercepted by Canadians after being alerted by Australia.
Responding to our queries, sources said that had Sri Lanka had received advance intelligence on Ocean Lady , the vessel could have been intercepted. Sources said the Indians could not have been unaware of the vessel leaving the north-western port of Mundra particularly because of heightened security following the sea-borne raid on Mumbai last year. Sources said that all four sea movements had been coordinated by the Tamil Diaspora.
Sources said that Sri Lanka had not been given access to Sri Lankans being held in Indonesia, Australia and Canada though there was very clear evidence that the LTTE and its front men were involved in the organised human smuggling operation.
Sources said that the Ocean Lady formerly known as Princess Easwary, had been one of the few ships used to move arms, ammunition and equipment to floating warehouses operated by the LTTE on the high seas. Sources said that had Sri Lanka been given access to the crew, more information regarding the LTTE arms procurement ring could have been elicited.
Sources said that the Maldives a few years ago had set a sterling example by promptly giving access to Sri Lanka to interrogate a group of LTTE terrorists captured by the Maldivian Coast Guard, thereby facilitating SLN operations against LTTE floating warehouses.
It was unfortunate that some countries were reluctant to share information regarding human smuggling operations though they publicly called for joint action to fight terrorism, narcotics and clandestine ship movements, sources said.
Referring to an agreement reached between Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Indonesian President Bambang Susilo Yudhoyono in Jakarta recently, sources said that they had decided on the fate of the detained group even without consulting Sri Lanka. Sources also pointed out that of the 334 Sri Lankan detainees, 78 were held onboard Australia Customs Patrol vessel Oceanic Viking now moored off Indonesia Bintan Island near Singapore.
Sources said the Australia-Indonesia agreement had not been well received by some Indonesian officials.
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AnuD
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 30 Oct 2009 05:36:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Sri Lanka should not take back this people except those who need to be questioned. |
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 30 Oct 2009 05:42:58 GMT Report for Abuse
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It is business between TRO and Australia...keep going.
take the balance at your earliest best please.
love Gaja !
Edited By - Damed - 30 Oct 2009 05:43:27 GMT |
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 30 Oct 2009 22:12:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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Willing and Waiting -
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/ready-willing-and-waiting-for-the-next-boat-out-20091030-hpsk.html |
kiwikanga
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 30 Oct 2009 23:33:33 GMT Report for Abuse
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SL does not want these 'kallathonis', Indonesia also does not seem to want them for obvious reasons.
If Aussi wants these trouble makers they can have them BUT the Aussis should be prepared that some day these fellows will get the idea of setting up their home land in Aussi, the Aussis had better be prepared for that DAY!!! |
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1 Nov 2009 00:21:33 GMT Report for Abuse
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Simple problem complicated.
Why Indonesia or anywhere for that matter? Sail the Frigates to Sri Lanka with the Lot and our Excellency the President Rajapakse with his erstwhile Defense Secretary DR. Gotabaya Rajapakse will do the 'needful'. |
Donnimal
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1 Nov 2009 00:32:03 GMT Report for Abuse
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| By the way, there are few Sinhala Boys who have come on holiday Visa and sort Refugee Status and they have got it - submitting Bogus Pictures of their 'ruined' home. Now their entire families have come and settled down in Australia. I know at least one, who did this and before coming sold the house and the large property for a mint just 100 meters from the Negombo Bus Stand. Father didn't want to come and he committed suicide. Check out! |
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Family First senator Steve Fielding questioned whether the Sri Lankans were real refugees.
'I remember the first phone call we took from, I think Alex, his English wasn't so good,' he told Channel 10.
'Within two weeks his English is better than mine, so I'm not so sure how genuine some of these people are.' |
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1 Nov 2009 23:07:07 GMT Report for Abuse
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'should be prepared that some day these fellows will get the idea of setting up their home land'
No one talked about a homeland until the Sinhala started discriminating on the basis of language, limiting Tamil enrollment in University, killing thousands of Tamils during riots, denying job opportunities, bringing Sinhala police into Jaffna from the South (well you can guess how that turned out)... If that happens in Scarborough your damn right I'll be the first one to get an AK and start blowing $hit up. For some reason I don't think that will happen, because unlike the Sinhala the West is somewhat more civilized. Just my two cents. |
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1 Nov 2009 23:20:27 GMT Report for Abuse
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If that happens in Scarborough your damn right I'll be the first one to get an AK and start blowing $hit up
lol :)
unlike the Sinhala the West is somewhat more civilized.
LOL :)))) |
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1 Nov 2009 23:24:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Glad that your unintelligent people can give you a good laugh Nirbhaya LOL I love how the Sinhala gobble up Sinhala pride, while their whole government has second citizenship in Western nations, and then have the audacity to claim every Tamil trying to leave is LTTE. Ah Sinhala politics is so hilarious, and dumb uneducated masses of Sinhala gobble that up. |
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