 By FARAH FAROUQUE, December 28, 2009
''IT FEELS like freedom, now,'' says Sanmugam Sarpatheepan.Around him are the markers of his new life; the modest home in Melbourne's west is well maintained but has few personal touches, except for a couple of unwashed teacups in the kitchen.Mr Sarpatheepan, 25, and his intellectually impaired housemate, Kanapathippillai Thajaparan, 24, are no ordinary new arrivals: they are the only Sri Lankans off the customs ship Oceanic Viking to have been resettled in Australia after the October stand-off involving 78 asylum seekers. |
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Aum Muruga Society Hindu Calendar for year 2010
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Joe Higgins, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Dublin, Ireland, condemned the Australian government early this morning for its direct responsibility for the death of a Tamil refugee. Joe Higgins stated: “The Australian government has signed up to the refugee convention and is in clear violation of its commitments. I am appalled by the death of Mr Jacob Christin and send my condolences to his family and to those on the boat. “I urge the Australian and the Indonesian governments to take immediate steps to avoid further suffering. All the remaining refugees must be treated respectfully. Proper medical and food supplies must be provided and their refugee claims must be processed by the Australian government immediately. |
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Tamil refugees moored at the port in Merak contacted Socialist Party officials this morning with the tragic news that a young man died last night at about 11.30pm local time.Jacob Christian, aged 29, had been trying to go to hospital for the last two days but the IOM and local authorities had refused to let him leave the port. They have also been denying medical staff access to the boat for some weeks.Kumar, one of the refugees on the boat, said “Jacob Christian was violently ill and had been constantly vomiting blood. It took a bitter argument with the authorities to get them to eventually take him to hospital. |
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From early on we have raised grave concerns about the medical attention available to the men, women and children on board the boat in Merak. This tragedy could have been prevented.” says Sam Pari spokesperson for the Australian Tamil Congress (ATC). |
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Veteran Tamil Computer activist Mr Muguntharaj Subramanian has been elected to INFITT Executive Committee from Australia for 2010-2011. Apart from infitt, he has promoted tamil computing usage through workshops in Malaysia and India and created ekalappai software with the help of many other volunteers. |
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A Chinese news paper today reported that, Sri Lankan is ready to answer UN letter on humanitarian law violation. Mr Deng Shasha from Chinese daily said , "The Sri Lankan government said Wednesday they will reply the UN letter which was calling for explanations on the recent statement of former Chief of Defense Staff and Army Commander General (Retd) Sarath Fonseka. " |
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One of almost 250 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who have spent the past 11 weeks refusing to leave their boat in Indonesia has died after allegedly being denied medical help.The 29-year-old Tamil died late last night after falling ill several days ago.The Tamil's spokesman, Sanjeev "Alex" Kuhendrarajah, said the man had been vomiting blood for two days but authorities ignored his pleas to be taken to hospital until after he had a seizure on Wednesday night."He was completely neglected by the IOM (International Organisation for Migration) and the Indonesian Navy," Alex told AAP from the boat in the west Javan port of Merak. |
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"..The United Nations has asked the Sri Lankan Government to respond to allegations that several senior Tamil Tiger rebels were executed as they tried to surrender earlier this year.Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has received a letter from the United Nations seeking an explanation for the deaths of several high ranking Tamil Tigers. The rebels were killed in the final stages of Sri Lanka's civil war in May. .." |
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"..Aruran Vinayagamoorthy, Sivarajah Yathavan and Arumugam Rajeevan, who were not in court, have already had terror-related charges dropped. They were arrested in 2007 and are on bail..."
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 SUBURBAN wife with an alleged taste for the high life that has left her accused of the nation's biggest ever one-person fraud. The 40-year-old Sydney accountant allegedly defrauded financial institution ING out of more than $45 million as she sat at her desk in their Sydney office, siphoning funds into her private accounts to fund a lavish shopping habit over five years.Amazingly, nobody - not ING, nor her husband - had the faintest clue about what she was allegedly up to, The Daily Telegraph reports. The extraordinary story behind the allegedly record-breaking fraud was revealed in Central Local Court yesterday, where Subramaniam made an unsuccessful application for bail. |
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