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Australian Minister Dutton claims he's saving lives by locking up Tamil family on Christmas Island
Ajith Herath - October 24, 2019
An extraordinary situation has emerged in Australia where community members from Biloela, a small town in regional Queensland, have come out fighting for four of their own — a Tamil family whose father and mother arrived by boat in 2012 and 2013 as asylum seekers, and their two children, both born in Biloela.
WATCH: Film exposes Australia's dangerous policies to stop refugee boats, questions New Zealand role
Ajith Herath - August 26, 2019
We are asking politicians, organisations and individuals from around the world to make public appeals to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to rule out any role in the Australian 'stop the boats' policy and resettle the refugees from the Andika featured in this film. Please send copies of your statements to us at imrvbremen@gmail.com so that we can publicise them. Email Prime...
Questions asked about New Zealand's role in Andika interception on World Refugee Day
Ajith Herath - June 20, 2019
In New Zealand's 2019 "Wellbeing" budget, $25 million was allocated to maritime mass arrival prevention, described as an initiative aimed at preventing asylum seekers "departing for New Zealand". But how does the government justify such measures when it says it's committed to upholding the right of asylum – the right for people to cross borders, to seek protection from persecution and torture? According to...
Internationalist commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the genocide of Eelam Tamils
Ajith Herath - May 15, 2019
Saturday 18.05.19, 6pm to 8pm Haus der Wissenschaft, Sandstr. 4/5, 28195 Bremen - Olbers-Saal | 1. OG | Entry Free Speakers taking part will include: Nidia Arrobo Rodas (Indigenous Peoples Organisation of Ecuador) Esther Mujawayo-Keiner from Rwanda, Dr. Andy Higginbottom (prosecutor at the 'Peoples Tribunal on Sri Lanka') and several speakers from political parties and organisations. The program will be moderated by Pastor Hans-Gerhard Klatt...
How Dilan's torment relates to all of us
Ajith Herath - April 15, 2019
Dilan's father, Yüksel Koç is on indefinite hunger strike to stop the isolation regime imposed on the imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. In describing her feelings about it (in the video below), German born Dilan raises uncomfortable questions to those of us living in Europe. The terrible situation that Dilan finds herself was set into motion 20 years ago...
Calling on Jacinda Ardern to resettle the Andika refugees
Ajith Herath - February 20, 2019
We are calling on Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's Prime Minister, to resettle a handful of refugees currently in Indonesia where they remain after being intercepted by the Australian Navy before they could arrive in New Zealand. Jacinda Ardern should also distance New Zealand from Australia's cruel policies and demonstrate it's commitment to upholding the right to asylum. In 2015, 65 mainly...
Thirumurugan Gandhi released on bail! But charges and cases against him remain
Ajith Herath - October 5, 2018
Drop all charges against him! Thirumurugan Gandhi released on bail on Tuesday the 2nd of October. His supporters have taken him to hospital because of the bad health condition that he finds himself in. We thank everyone who acted in various ways to get him released. We request all to keep up the pressure to drop all the charges against...
Modi's India mocks international humanitarian norms by imprisoning Thirumurugan Gandhi. UAPA charge rejected by the court!!
wp-humanrights-chief - September 10, 2018
International pressure needed to free him! At about 3.45 am on August 9, Thirumurugan Gandhi was arrested by the police at Bengaluru International Airport in India. The Indian newspaper 'The Hindu' declared that the 'May 17 Movement' co-ordinator had been arrested on charges of sedition for speaking at the 'United Nations Human Rights Commission' (UNHRC) about the police shootings at the Thoothukudi...
Swiss court decision is a historic victory for the Eelam Tamil struggle
wp-humanrights-chief - June 15, 2018
On the 14th June 2018, the Federal Court in Bellinzona, Switzerland comprehensively rejected the case put forward by the Swiss prosecutor office against a group of Eelam Tamil activists. As reported in the 'Tagesanzeiger', one of the main Swiss newspapers today: 'Gian-Andrea Danuser, who defended one of the credit intermediaries, described the verdict as very precise, strong and courageous....
Report of Press Conference on the Trial against Tamil activists in Switzerland (Zurich on 25.05.18) and some events following it.
Report of Press Conference on the Trial against Tamil activists in Switzerland (Zurich on 25.05.18) and some events following it. As way of introduction Viraj Mendis explained why the German based organisation – Internationaler Menschenrechtsverein Bremen (IMRV)– finds itself organising this press conference. He said that this legal action is not unique to Switzerland, and that it can be seen...
Attempted deportation of Tamil family from Australia – The Project
https://www.humanrights.de/wp-content/uploads/videos/Biloela/The%20Project%20-%20We%20hear%20about%20deportation.mp4
Aran Mylvaganam in support of Andika refugees
https://humanrights.de/wp-content/uploads/videos/andika/Aran_reduced_1.mp4
Andy Higginbottoms speech in february 2018
https://humanrights.de/wp-content/uploads/videos/andy-en-april.mp4
Make a selfie or a video clip! defend the Tamil activists on Trial!
" They may paint the victim in a negative light by saying they somehow deserved what happened to them, or perhaps that they were not really the victim but the offender.
Victim blaming effectively states that a victim deserved the crime that they endured. Crime is often about violence, power, and control; it needs to be clear that no one deserves it.
Most importantly, the victim blame approach is neither effective in resolving problems of violence, nor in protecting the victim from further victimization, nor in protecting future generations from continuing the cycle of abuse.
Therefore, it is important that we shift the focus of our blame from the victim of the crime to the perpetrator, in order to ensure that the offender takes responsibility for the crime that they have committed. One way of assuring that an offender is held accountable for their actions is to have a community response.
The justice system and social agencies need to work together in order to promote offender accountability, while at the same time helping victims of violence to recover from what has happened to them."
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Freedom for the Tamils facing trial in Switzerland!
We handed out a leaflet which we prepared specially for the Rosa Luxemburg/ Karl Liebnecht commemoration events on the 13,14, 15 January in Berlin. You can find the leaflet here.
Find below some early responses which we got on the conference on the 13th January 2018.
we would appreciate similar photos of support from Tamil people from all over the world (slogans on your placard can be in any language) and people of any nationality.
Please email the photo or short video to imrvbremen@gmail.com.
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