Petition

Shut Down the Camps
The Sri Lankan army killed and injured tens of thousands of Tamil civilians earlier this year in their brutal war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). This was/is a war on the whole tamil people Hundreds of thousands more have been rounded up and imprisoned in Nazi-style concentration camps. Many people are suffering in appalling conditions, crowded into tents, with inadequate water and sanitation, and a chronic lack of food and medical supplies.

Deteriorating conditions
Even by the government’s own admission, at least 20,000 children are being kept in these camps. There are no adequate medical facilities available and diseases, such as jaundice, are spreading fast. This is an outrage. Despite the horrific conditions there are reports of riots against the authorities in the camps. Médecins sans Frontières treated three and six year old children, wounded when soldiers, claiming they posed a risk, attacked. Nobody has been brought to justice. These prison camps must be shut down and all internally displaced persons (IDPs) must be freed immediately.


 Shut down the detention camps immediately.
 No economic or military aid to the Sri Lankan government.
 All humanitarian aid to be under the control of elected, accountable
representatives of local communities.
 For the right of Tamil-speaking people to self-determination.
 For united campaigns of the working-class and all oppressed people in Sri Lanka against the brutal and divisive policies of the Rajapakse regime.

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Signatories

jean-yves rioux,
Ce barbarisme est indigne des humains. Quelle civilisation peut accepter pareille chose?

C'est un crime que de violer le droit des peuples à l'autodétermination. Seul la soif insatiable d'exploiter pour s'enrichir conduit certains États à ne pas traiter d'égal à égal entre nations.

On ne construit pas la démocratie en se basant sur des principes fasciste.

Sincèrement,

Tharmini,
Shut down the detention camps immediately.

Pravin,
Shut down the detention camps immediately.
 No economic or military aid to the Sri Lankan government.
 All humanitarian aid to be under the control of elected, accountable
representatives of local communities.
 For the right of Tamil-speaking people to self-determination.
 For united campaigns of the working-class and all oppressed people in Sri Lanka against the brutal and divisive policies of the Rajapakse regime.

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