Multicultural Excellent Award has been recently awarded to eelam tamil community leader in melbourne and chair person for justice & freedom for ceylon tamils ( an organisation vigorously raise voice for Tamil Self determination in Sri Lanka and expose Sri Lankan State Terror ) Mr wicki  Wickiramasingham Ramalingam for his outstanding contribution to Victoria's tamil communities.The award was presented by professor David de Kretser,Ac ,Governor of Victoria,attracted more than 600 members of Victoria Multicultural community leaders, Victoria premier Hon John Brumby and cabinet ministers attended.

Tamil Diaspora organisations Friday condemned the killing of Tamil parliamentarian K. Sivanesan Thursday in a fragmentation mine attack blamed on Sri Lankan commandos and called for international action against the Colombo government. Pointing out that Mr. Sivanesan is the latest Tamil MP to be murdered by suspected Army-backed paramilitaries or members of the security forces in recent years, expatriate organisations from Australia, Canada and Britain called for the Sri Lankan government to be held accountable and for international sanctions to be imposed.

“They started beating Thiyagarajah. They took his T-shirt off and stuffed it into his mouth. The neighbors came out to help, but they pushed them away. His wife was crying and shouting, and they hit her with a gun butt. She was nine months pregnant. They were accusing Thiyagarajah of having bombs in the house, and forced him to dig the ground around the house. They searched the house, turning everything upside down, but didn’t find anything. They beat him so badly that he couldn’t walk – they had to carry him away. They took him away on a motorcycle.”
– A relative of 25-year-old Thiyagarajah Saran, “disappeared” on the night of February 20, 2007, from East Puttur, Jaffna

Date:                Sunday 16th  march 2008 
Time:                5.30pm to 7.30pm 
Venue:             St. John’s Church Hall
52 Yarra Street (Cnr of Yarra and Cape St)
Heidelberg (Mel Way Ref: 32 A5)

February 4 2008 is the Sri Lankan Independence Day, but since that day 60 years ago, the Tamils inhabiting that island have only witnessed discrimination, suffering, torture and genocide at the hands of the Sri Lankan government.Tamil Youth Organisation of Australia encourages you to wear a black armband to work/school/uni on Monday Feb 4 in solidarity with the native Tamils of NorthEast Sri Lanka, and explain to your collegues that whilst many other countries celebrate their independence, the Tamils of the NorthEast are mourning this day as it was day that they were granted their death sentence. They have seen nothing but death, discrimination and destruction over the last 60 yrs.

One million Tamils from Sri Lanka displaced throughout the world, especially Europe, America, Canada, Australia, India, South Africa and many other countries due to the ongoing civil war between Sri Lankan government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for over three decades.

Full text of the press release issued by the Office of the High Commissoner for Human Rights follows:
Geneva, 15 January 2008 -- As the Ceasefire Agreement in Sri Lanka is due to effectively end on 16 January 2008, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, reminded the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of their obligations under international law to respect human rights.

Jeremy Page, South Asia Correspondent , UK Times
"...The Rajapaksa brothers control more than 70 per cent of the Sri Lanka budget, according to local economists. “Put it this way: it’s getting pretty hard to say no to the President,” one Western diplomat said. ..."
The British head of Sri Lankan Airlines faces dismissal after the national carrier refused to bump passengers off a flight from London to make way for the President of Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan Government, which owns 51 per cent of the airline, said yesterday that it was cancelling a work permit for Peter Hill, who has been the carrier’s chief executive, based in Colombo, for eight years. It cited the airline’s refusal to clear 35 seats for Mahinda Rajapaksa and his entourage on a flight from London via the Maldives to Colombo on December 13.