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'1,400 Tamils dying every week in Lankan refugee camps'

Mumbai: About 1,400 Tamil refugees are dying every week at the giant Manik Farm internment camp in Sri Lanka, senior international aid sources have told ‘The Times’. The death toll will add to concerns that the Sri Lankan Government has failed to halt a humanitarian catastrophe after announcing victory ....Read more

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UNO should notice thisBy: Vijay | Friday , 10 Jul '09 13:29:11 PM Reply | Forward Last thirty years, Tamil community people are fighting for their rights;UNO should interfere in this and show their muscle power to solve this problem.

In another two yearsBy: Muralidharan | Friday , 10 Jul '09 12:51:55 PM Reply | Forward You see in another two years time there will not be a single Tamil left alive in Sri Lankan soil that type of genocide is happening there now . The government is active in making it happen.

Not only in I.D.P campsBy: LALITH BHANSAL | Friday , 10 Jul '09 12:43:42 PM Reply | Forward This fact is true hundreds of people are dying in the I.D.P camps the government is denying all that people are being tortured in camps and most of them go missing for ever. No one questions that .

Tamils in Sri lanka By: Raj thackrey | Friday , 10 Jul '09 12:41:41 PM Reply | Forward The tamils in sri lanka supported the terrorist activities since last thirty years, what are they doing in sri lanka in the first place they should go back to tamil nadu where they come from. And the media should not give attention to such minor incidence.

SinhaleseBy: Ram | Friday , 10 Jul '09 13:51:38 PM Reply | Forward The Sinhalese came from Xinjiang and they should also pack off to Xinjiang.

'1,400 Tamils dying every week in Lankan refugee camps'By: Subramaniam | Friday , 10 Jul '09 12:18:58 PM Reply | Forward The responsibility lies with British Government to ensure that the all ethinic groups of SriLanka are to live in peace and harmony. When the British gave indpendence to SriLanka, they should have ensured that the freedom and rights of minority ethnic groups be safe guarded. India and USA have also a large role to play in bringing down the erasing of ethnic minority. An International Peace keeping force and international aid agencies alone can save the minority tamils in Sri Lanka. Continued suppression or displacement and deaths, would encourage militancy, for which one should not give room and the present situation should be viewed and acted upon humanely.

Blot on humanityBy: Ponkoh Sivakumaran | Friday , 10 Jul '09 12:04:08 PM Reply | Forward There is genocide being committed. India remains silent. At the Human Rights Council it took the atrocious view that this was an internal problem of Sri Lanka. It is a problem that will have repercussions in Tamilnadu. It cannot be internal. It is in India's interest to fix it, quite apart from the moral issues involved as there is an obvious possibility of dissident opinion forming in Tamilnadu, the longer this situation lasts. Many Sri Lankan Tamils believe that India is silent because of its complicity with the Sri Lankan government in this genocide and that the policy of extermination of the Tamils is a policy of revenge carried out to please just one family. It is best for India to correct this view by actively intervening to stop this carnage taking place even after the war. It must ensure that the IDPs return home. It is an ongoing violation of every norm of human rights. It defeats every moral basis on which India was founded. End this blot on humanity.

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