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News - International
Thursday, 04 March 2010
Brisbane archdiocese's Catholic Justice and Peace Commission wants a Australia to take a stronger stance on human rights violations in Sri Lanka.
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Wednesday, 02 December 2009
About 128,000 Sri Lankan civilians who have been held in state-run camps since the end of the country's separatist conflict in May have been released, Nine News cited from an AFP report.
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Friday, 13 November 2009
Pope Benedict XVI is appealing to the Sri Lankan government to hasten the process of allowing displaced civilians to return home from internment camps.
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009
An advertising campaign by Saatchi & Saatchi will be carried out in Sri Lanka to deter asylum seekers from trying to enter Australia illegally by boat, labelled by The Daily Telegraph as a taxpayer funded "secret war".
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Thursday, 27 August 2009
Brisbane's Catholic Justice and Peace Commission has launched a petition campaign to call on the Federal Government to pressure Sri Lanka over its treatment of almost 300,000 Tamil civilians in internment camps.
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Monday, 17 August 2009
Malcolm Ranjith, the archbishop of Colombo, and Thomas Saundaranayagam, the bishop of Jaffna and a Tamil, urged Sri Lanka to release hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tamils held in military run displacement camps.
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News - International
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
A Sri Lankan priest, Fr Amalraj, who was caught with his parishioners in the so-called "no-fire zone", has described army shelling as "like rain" and also accused the LTTE of killing people in the last week's of the just concluded civil war.
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News - International
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
There is a need to focus now on "healing the wounds of people rather than the celebration of victory", Sri Lankan priest, Fr Nihal Fernando said as the island country's government declared an end to its 25 year civil war.
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Friday, 15 May 2009
Australia's Catholic bishops and Catholic Religious Australia have expressed their prayerful solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka as the nation's escalating civil war leads to a mounting humanitarian crisis.
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News - International
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Heavy fighting over the weekend in Sri Lanka's north has caused more than 2,500 civilian casualties with over 50,000 civilians trapped in the crossfire, Caritas Australia CEO Jack de Groot says.
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