Refugee Vigil - Melbourne (Part 3/3)

Speaker: Kanchana Senthuran

The Refugee Action Collective (RAC) held a vigil on Monday, 26 October, at 5.30pm at Federation Square to demand fair treatment of refugees risking their lives to come to Australia by boat while escaping from war-torn countries. They are also demanding that refugees be processed on the Australian mainland and provided with a safe haven when they arrive.

The vigil was supported by the Tamil Community. Currently Tamil refugees are escaping from Sri Lanka by boat to Australia due to large scale human rights abuses against Sri Lanka's Tamil population. RAC believes that asylum seekers are not illegal and have a right to have their claims assessed immediately. Mandatory detention is a cruel and unnecessary policy that the Australian people disagree with. The overwhelming majority of asylum seekers qualify for refugee status under international law.

For further information contact: Marie 0409 252673, Sue 0413 377 978 or Sylvie 0409 190 738

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• asylum seekers

[arnotkaling]

@roshan2137 is that all you have because you can't prove anything about sinhalese. Firstly banglas are no where near as intelligent as ceylonese and 2ndly they think like crap from collecting all that garbage. BTW the Chinese immigrants in Singapore can even tell the diff between banglas and indians(n they are the same race).

[roshan2137]

@arnotkaling Hahaha "plenty more to spare".You refugees have nothing at the moment.KP was deported from malaysia and both malaysia and singapore have banned LTTE.You have a tendency to drag these two countries to a sri lankan issue.Mate,they even don't know who you are.they think u r another bangla....

If u hav da balls to fight us,then fight! da reality is u can't! coz ur a cocksucker!

keep worshipping lingam!

[arnotkaling]

@roshan2137 we Malaysians and Singaporeans were the ones who started the LTTE and we have plenty more to spare. What seperate state do we want? Is Tamil Eelam a part of Sri Lanka? I didn't realise that somehow sri lankan terrorists overpowered the Jaffna kingdom? Sri Lankans never achieved anything that's why u have to feel like a majority to boost ur ego!!

[roshan2137]

@arnotkaling We don't care about Malaysia and Singapore.You can stay there as long as you like.But you can't play games with us in Sri lanka.We can send you to where prabhakaran is.There will be no separate state for you in sri lanka.You will have to live in a united sri lanka with a sinhalese majority.That's the reality.You can't hide away from reality!

[arnotkaling]

what is sinhalese food, language, clothes etc? roshan what is the traditional dress of sinhalese males and females????!!!! what is sinhalese about the sinhalese language??

[arnotkaling]

@arnotkaling lee kwan yew a chinese immigrant to singapore has said himself the Ceylonese are much more capable then the sinhalese. GOT OWNED BITCH. the sinhalese need to wiped out, if it wasn't for the sinhalese ceylone would be like singapore. indians and melayus did nothing for malaysia, they are living of the hard workd of the Ceylonese and Chinese. but the indians and melayus are still better then sinhalese!

[arnotkaling]

@roshan2137 before making outrageous claims on Malaysia and Singapore what did sinhalese terrorists achieve which country did those pricks create?? 2ndly who are sinhalese to talk of Malaya? Malaysia and Singapore were mainly built by the Ceylonese and some contribution by the Chinese(due to sheer numbers because of british colonialism). all the auto drivers in colombo are sinhalese lol, what a pathetic people.

[roshan2137]

@arnotkaling Your BS is useless and will convince no one.You are a minority everywhere in the world and better learn to live with the reality.

What do you know about sinhalese culture? You are a supporter of a blood thirsty terrorist organisation!You have no culture but the culture of barbarians.

Malaysia and Singapore were created by all the communities living there particularly the chinese played a big role.Similarly bughers,muslims and tamils(ceylonese and upcountry) have helped to build SL

[arnotkaling]

@roshan2137 watch my video on the bhoomiputras of ceylon Exactly what are sinhalese terrorists fighting for? I mean what country did sinhalese create? Ceylonese created Malaysia and Singapore. What culture do sinhalese have? So what r u dickheads actually fighting for?

[roshan2137]

Australia cannot be fooled tamil lies. Tamils are originally from Tamil Nadu.If they are facing discrimination in sri lanka,they can go back to tamil nadu.Tamils should integrate to srilanka. They lost everything because of this war and they still don't realise that the problem lies in their attitude. When will the tamils ever learn?