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  1. Take stronger stance against Sri Lanka, govt urged 

    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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  2. Sri Lanka releases camp detainees 

    News - International

    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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  3. Pope appeals to Sri Lanka to let civilians return home 

    News - International

    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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  4. Advertising campaign to halt illegal arrivals 

    News - International

    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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  5. Petition for displaced Sri Lankan Tamils 

    News - International

    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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  6. Catholic leaders urge Sri Lankan Tamils' release 

    News - International

    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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  7. 'Shells like rain': Priest describes Sri Lanka 'no-fire' zone 

    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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  8. Heal the wounds, say Sri Lanka church leaders 

    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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  9. Bishops and religious appeal on Sri Lanka 

    News - International

    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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  10. Ceasefire urgent after horror violence in Sri Lanka 

    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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