In a letter to AFTA, the peak body representing Australian Tamils, Professor David de Kretser, A.C. Governor of Victoria, said that heis "personally disturbed at the conditions udner which internally displaced persons are being held and I am seeking, with others, to at least ensure that NGOs have access to these camps." Professor David further said that he is certainly been informed of the past history of the issues concerning the disenfranchisement of the Tamil populaiton in Sri lanka and pointed out that others are less familiar with the long history of the conflict in Sri Lanka.

A press statement has been released by Mr Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, Chairman of the Committee for the formation of a Provisional Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam.
Full Text of the Statement
The legitimate campaign of the Tamils to realize their right to self-determination has been brutally crushed through military aggression, which has been in violation of humanitarian laws and all civilized norms.  People all over the world are shocked and deeply saddened by the massacres of Tamils in the Vanni. 

The `Unifund' project which has been established by the Sydney University Tamil Society (SUTS) in 1991, following a request from former Jaffna university, Vice Chancellor, Prof. Thurairajah, in a Press Release today announced their new Project helping Sri Lankan War Victims, who are currently studying at Jaffna University and Eastern University. The Australian Society of Graduate Tamils (ASoGT) is managing the Unifun project sicne 2002, organisers said. This project bridges the University Tamil students in our homeland and the student in the Tamil Diaspora, they further said. "Your help of $50 per month will help this affected students to complete their undergraduate studies and bring a positive change in their life", says Dr P Ketheeswaran of ASoGT.

A large gathering is expected in Canberra today to urge the international community to pressure the Government of Sri Lanka to allow aid groups and human rights monitors access to over 300,000 Tamil civilians locked inside military camps in the island’s north.Demonstrators from across the nation will travel to the embassies of major global powers to urge international support for a lifting of censorship in Sri Lanka’s conflict zone, amid reports of human rights violations and abuses by government troops towards hundreds of thousands of Tamil refugees displaced by the nation’s civil war.

Media Release | 02.06.2009 | UN has failed; US and EU must step in
The Australasian Federation of Tamil Associations (AFTA), the peak body representing the Tamils in Australia and New Zealand, would like to point out that the United Nations has again demonstrated its weakness and inability to protect humanity.  Even after UN inaction in Rwanda, Bosnia, Gaza and Darfur that led to many thousands of innocent lives being lost and many more displaced, lessons were not learnt and UN failed again to protect Tamil men, women and children in Northern Sri Lanka. This time the UN failed, despite warnings in advance from the Tamil Diaspora, media, International Crisis Group and humanitarian and aid agencies, of the impending genocide by the Sri Lankan state by relentless bombardment, by the use of weapons of mass destruction, and with the use of food and medicine as weapons of war.

Huge "Human chain" Protest in Melbourne by TAMIL DIASPORA. Pls take part in this event with your family and friends(also bring your Australian friends and Colleagues too). We are the only hope for those people in concentration camps & Army custody, pls put your joint valuable effort to bring more awareness for long suffering people. They paid the heavy price for the Freedom. We can't let their suffering & pains to go away in short period without justice. 
Starting Venue: Federation Square(infront of Flinders St Station)
When: Saturday 30th May 2009
Time:  11.00 am to 2pm

22 May 2009,Amnesty International Australia
A Sri Lankan family struggles to cope in a displaced persons camp. © AIThe war between the Sri Lankan government and the the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) appears to have concluded, at least in terms of military operations.However, there are now over 250,000 internally displaced people (IDPs), who need relief but also protection from torture and other ill-treatment, enforced disappearances and other human rights violations.

During an interview to SBS Dateline on 24th May 2009, Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia, Mr Senaka Walgampaya dodges many questions around War Crime allegations against Sri Lankan Government,  its detention camps where more than 300,000 Tamils are being detained behind barbed wires and lack of unhindered main stream media access to the war zone & detention camps. When asked about the recent pull out by ICRC, Mr Senaka Walgampaya without any hesitation blatantly lied and proved to the world he has no respect for truth or justice. His body reactions when lying are worth watching and he even swatted, despite the cold Canberra winter, an observer said.

"..Genocidal Sri Lankan Army has started it slaughter of our 330,000 brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, friends and relatives in the so-called safe zone in Vanni today - 15th April 2009, 9.00 AM Local Time.." -  Please pass on this message to all your friends and relatives ASAP
 
Tamil Australians March against escalating Genocide in Sri Lanka - Canberra , Friday 17th April 09

MEETING PLACE: 
IN FRONT OF THE LODGE, ADELAIDE AVENUE-CANBERRA

DATE   :   
FRIDAY 17TH APRIL

For Transport details please refer below,

Over 100 Australian Tamils joining the three young hunger strikers in Canberra have spent an uneasy night’s sleep as news from the conflict zone reaches the Tamil Diaspora of an awaiting Sri Lankan military offensive in an attempt to enter the ‘no fire safe zone’. Due to the Sri Lankan government’s prohibition of media into the region, information of the ground reality of a looming massacre of Tamil civilians in the zone by the Sri Lankan military has reached the Tamil Diaspora through phone calls and emails that have leaked out of the region.

Four Tamil youth, S. Ramana, S Chandiran, K. Banu and a Tamil media personality P. Theiveekan have staged a hunger strike today at 5.00 pm at Pultney Street, Dandenong Park in Melbourne. They have placed four demands to the Australian Government upon which they are staging this strike. They urge the Government of Australia to exert diplomatic pressure on Sri Lanka,

Members of Australia’s Tamil Diaspora will converge on the streets of Sydney and Melbourne this afternoon to protest the State sponsored genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka and urge the Government of Australia to use its diplomatic powers to push for an immediate ceasefire to the conflict in the island. The rally will take place today at Hyde Park, Sydney from 4pm onwards and in front of State Parliament House, Melbourne from 1pm onwards.