Expat Tamil community calls for airline boycott

Posted on January 28, 2008 by vaahai

Expat Tamil community calls for airline boycott
11.45am GMT
Owen Bowcott
Friday January 18, 2008
Guardian UnlimitedTamils around the world have called for a global boycott of Sri Lankan Airlines in protest at the Colombo government’s decision to end its six-year ceasefire with rebels.
The Sri Lankan government officially annulled the cessation of hostilities with the rebel Tamil Tigers two [...]

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Boycott Sri Lanka

Posted on January 27, 2008 by vaahai

It is time the Tamils and the International community boycotted everything Sri Lanka. This country has been in the forefront of violating every right imaginable. It has condemned the Tamils in the island to conditions so deplorable as to put the apartheid era South Africa to shame. Why has the International community failed to impose [...]

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  • Tamils & Self-Determination

    "All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. .." Article 1.1, The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966

  • Boycott Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka Government is engaged in a systematic anihilation of the native population of the island - the Tamils. It has been in the top 3 countries from around the world in Government sponsored disappearances consistently for more than 15 years. Over the past 5 years more than 120 media personnel have been killed. More than 6000 Tamils have been killed over the same period by the Government of Sri Lanka. However it continues to receive about $900 million from Japan, about $600 million from China, and $250 million from India, per year. It is time the world community stops aiding a murderous regime.