Australia to give M’sia boats to tackle people-smuggling
SYDNEY: The Australian government today said it will give Malaysia two customs boats as a gift, part of a strategy to tackle people-smuggling in the region. Most asylum-seeker boats bound for Australia...
View ArticleAmid Reports of Sri Lanka Cover Up & Executions, ICP asks UN for Ban’s...
By Matthew Russell LeeUNITED NATIONS, February 6 — In the wake of a detailed report that Sri Lanka forces concealed mass graves and executed surrenderees as in the White Flag cases, Inner City Press on...
View ArticleSyria Humanitarian Draft Adopted 15-0 at UN After ICC, Sanctions, Hezbollah &...
UNITED NATIONS, February 22 — Minutes before the UN Security Council voted 15-0 to adopt the modified draft humanitarian resolution on Syria on February 22, Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told the...
View ArticleUS Human Rights Unit Reports on UNSC Allies, Of French Roma But No Spying,...
By Matthew Russell LeeUNITED NATIONS, February 27 — While the UN Security Council on Thursday morning held a closed-door “private” meeting, 200 miles south Secretary of State John Kerry was releasing...
View ArticleOn Sri Lanka, When ICP Asks Darusman Of His Report, He Cites Cambodia; On...
By Matthew Russell LeeUNITED NATIONS, April 17 — Arguing for a referral to the International Criminal Court of North Korea on April 17 was Marzuki Darusman, who previously chaired a three member panel...
View ArticleTamil Deaths In Australian Custody
I feel sad about the suicide of 29 year old Leo Seemanpillai, in Geelong – in the Australian state of Victoria. I chanted Sivapuranam believing that it would release the soul of Leo to merge with the...
View ArticleWho will bring Australia to justice?
The UNHCR has expressed “profound concern” that two boats carrying Tamil asylum seekers may have been sent back to Sri Lanka by the Australian government, and directly raised the possibility that...
View ArticleAs Australia Returns Asylum Seekers to Sri Lanka, UN "Hasn’t Seen" Reports
By Matthew Russell LeeUNITED NATIONS, July 7, updated — Amid reports of Sri Lankan asylum seekers having their rights violated, Inner City Press on July 3 asked UN spokesman Stephane Dujarricabout...
View ArticleIn Iraq, Turning from Sinjar to Anbar or Accepting Islamic State?
By Matthew Russell LeeUNITED NATIONS, August 14 – US President Barack Obama’s dual rationale for the campaign of airstrikes in Iraq has been the plight of the Yazikis on Mount Sinjar and the protection...
View ArticleAustralian Democracy or Lankan Democracy?
Recently the following response was invoked in relation to the caste issue within the Tamil community:‘In the late 1960s there was the famous Maviddapuram temple entry case where Chellappah...
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