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Sprintcyclist wrote on Jun 17 th, 2021 at 8:58pm: rhino wrote on Jun 17 th, 2021 at 8:48pm: John Smith wrote on Jun 17 th, 2021 at 4:43pm: Gordon wrote on Jun 16 th, 2021 at 9:49pm: I feel for them if they were being sent back to Stinky India, but Sri Lanka looks pretty nice.
you probably don't look like an idiot either ... but looks can be deceiving Quote:Amnesty International reports that Sri Lanka has one of the world's highest numbers of enforced disappearances, with between 60,000 and 100,000 since the 1980s. The UN, EU, US and human rights groups continue to express concern over the situation facing Tamils and other minorities in Sri Lanka. The 47-member UN Human Rights Council in March this year boosted the resources and powers of the UN human rights chief to investigate war crimes and other human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. The EU's representative specifically highlighted "increased marginalisation" of Tamils and Muslims, which it said had been "exacerbated" by Sri Lanka's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. "The government response [to coronavirus] was led by the military and the lockdown was enforced more severely in Tamil-majority areas," Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch, told the ABC. Just last week, a European Parliament resolution expressed "deep concern over Sri Lanka's alarming path towards the recurrence of grave human rights violations". The European Parliament "deplores the continuing discrimination against and violence towards religious and ethnic minorities and communities in Sri Lanka, including Muslims, Hindus, Tamils and Christians", it continued. Observers say the risks for returned Tamil asylum seekers are heightened. "Tamils who have recently returned to Jaffna after fleeing have experienced abductions, sexual and physical violence, and state-sanctioned torture," Dr Ratnam said. "Tamils reported security forces regularly monitored and harassed members of their community," it said. Since these claims of torture seem to hinge on the claims of one person called Dr Ratnam, let us ask, who is Dr Ratnam? good question. here you go Quote:........ Dr Ratnam MB MCH BAO, FRACGP, AMC. Dr Ratnam has been working in skin cancer medicine since 2016. Originally from Brisbane, he has been working in Lismore for the last few years where he established himself as the main skin cancer doctor. ..... https://www.hotdoc.com.au/medical-centres/carindale-QLD-4152/molechex-carindale/... I suspect you've got the wrong Dr Ratnam. Quote:Dr Charishma Ratnam is a Human Geographer and Research Fellow at the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre (MMIC) at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University. Her research spans a number of areas, primarily focusing on refugee experiences, migrant (re)settlement, inclusion, and home-making practices. Charishma is particularly interested in developing novel research approaches including visual, ethnographic, and walking methods with participants to better understand their experiences of/in/with place(s).
Charishma is currently working on multiple research projects: she is involved in Monash University's Network for Excellence on Regional Liveable Diversity; she is working with Sri Lankan migrants to better understand how they use and encounter public spaces in Sydney and Melbourne, and; Charishma is working collaboratively with colleagues at MMIC and the Victorian Government to examine how organisations can strengthen their digital engagement with migrant communities. She has published research in Urban Geography, Mobilities, Emotion, Space and Society, and Geography Compass. She recently co-edited a collection on Sri Lankan Tamils in Australia (2020).
Charishma is currently the Honorary Membership Secretary of the Institute of Australian Geographers and a member of the New and Emerging Communities Advisory Committee for the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia. In 2021, Charishma commenced her appointment as Associate Editor and Book Review Editor for the Journal of Sociology. https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/charishma-ratnam
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