Australian Tamil Referendum April 2010 - SBS News

Australian Tamil Referendum April 2010 - SBS News






Australian Tamil referendum attracts media, provokes Colombo's envoy



More than 10,000 registered to cast their votes in the referendum across Australia last weekend, on the creation of independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka, reported SBS Australia, citing organisers.

John Dowd, the president of the International Commission of Jurists in Australia, SBS said, citing him saying that the referendum highlighted the aspirations as well as the plight of Tamils in the island of Sri Lanka.


The spokesperson of the Australian Tamil Congress Dr. Sam Pari called for a UN led referendum in the North-East to ascertain the Tamils opinion on the creation of an independent Tamil homeland.

Australia is the 10th country, but the first in the eastern hemisphere to conduct the referendum on the creation of independent and sovereign Tamil Eelam, the main principle of the Vaddukkoaddai Resolution of 1976.

The polls in several countries have delivered a resounding 'yes', the SBS observed in a lengthy coverage of the referendum in its World News.

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