| Duo Youth Walking 300km to Canberra Reach Liverpool |
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Seran Sribalan and Vishna Sivaraj, two young Australians walking 300km from Sydney to Canberra to raise awareness of the plight of 300,000 civilians being forcibly detained in military controlled internment camps in the island of Sri Lanka, have completed the first 10%of the distance they are to cover.
The duo began their walk yesterday afternoon from Martin Place, Sydney. The ‘send off’ was attended by family and friends and included speeches by the duo, their parents and Strathfield Mayor Keith Kwon, who attended the event as a supporter of human rights. Seran and Vishna walked 30km to reach Liverpool at 7pm last night and after a short Awareness Campaign spent the night at Liverpool District Neighbourhood Centre. The duo who currently have family members detained within these camps, which have been compared to concentration camps by rights groups and European Parliamentarians, will walk a total of 9 days passing through Sydney city and country towns en route to Canberra, where the ‘300km for 300,000 lives’ campaign will conclude at 12.30pm with a lunch time discussion at Federal Parliament House on Tuesday 18 August. Events will be held at each pit stop along the route. Tonight’s event will include an artistic theatrical performance by Seran, held tonight at 7pm at Hurley Park Community Centre,Campbelltown. Prostitution rings are now rife in Sri Lanka within the military run internment camps withmany of the Tamil women forced into them by military personnel [The Australia, 02/07/09]. Seran and Vishna propose to appeal to the Australian government to apply more diplomatic pressure upon the Sri Lankan government to ensure the Tamils detained within the camps are released and re-settled back in their own villages. Both have no professional athletic background and have had no professional training. Media Contact: |
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