Thursday, April 24, 2014
Australia says co-operation with Sri Lanka to prevent people smuggling is a success
At least ONE country, Australia, recognizes that Sri Lanka has been, and wants to be, a good law-abiding supportive friend to other neighboring countries, despite all the BS that self serving advocates of illegal immigration in the Eelamist Tamil Diaspora have dished out!
They recognize the ESSENTIAL TRUTH: no country that allows its Laws to be Flouted at Will can LONG ENDURE!
Jayawewa, Sri Lanka! STAY THE COURSE!
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Australia says co-operation with Sri Lanka to prevent people smuggling is a success
ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Apr 24, Canberra: The Australian government says it is engaging proactively and positively with Sri Lanka to prevent the illegal migration of people through the sea route and the measures taken in cooperation with Sri Lanka are successful in reducing the number of people illegally entering its borders.
In an interview with a radio program Australian Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Scott Morrison said the Australian government is cooperating with Sri Lanka to ensure that the island nation has the necessary means to ensure the integrity of its borders, which ensure integrity of his country's borders.
He was responding to a media query about the patrol vessel gifted to Sri Lanka to assist the anti-people smuggling operations.
Australia Tuesday signed the deed for the transfer of one of the two Bay Class patrol vessels it promised to gift to Sri Lanka by the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott when he visited Sri Lanka last November to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo.
The first of the two boats has already left Cairns port and the other one will be delivered in July, the Minister said.
Responding to the concerns regarding returning the illegal migrants back to Sri Lanka promptly, Morrison said the measure is to ensure that people don't take the dangerous sea voyage all the way to Australia.
He noted that thousands have been repatriated back to Sri Lanka and the international organizations such as UNHCR and IOM are there to provide assistance to the people.
"Well India is about 30km away and you can almost walk there on high tide. In Sri Lanka the UNHCR is there, other international organizations are there, the IOM, there have been thousands of people repatriated back into Sri Lanka over the last few years and it is many years since the Sri Lankan civil war ended now and what we're seeing is real progress," the Minister commented.
The Minister noted that large number of Sri Lankans have arrived through legitimate migration pathways as skilled migration and family migration and rubbished the suggestion that only resort people have in Sri Lanka to come to Australia is illegally by sea.
"We have a legitimate migration program and if people want to engage that legitimate migration program then the evidence is there that if you've got a skill and you've got a basis to be able to come here legitimately then that is being demonstrated to be possible," he said.
Dismissing the concerns expressed by the UNHCR on Australia's policy of turning back the illegal migrants without considering their cases, the Australian Minister said the policy is a success and it is not only good for Australia but also good for the region since the policy curtails the migration and prevents the deaths of the migrants at sea.
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Nimal,
You said "We must have a friendlier immigration policy, even if the tourists could work a bit."
You've GOT TO BE KIDDING! That would be the DEATH for Sri Lanka! Consider that:
1. At an AVERAGE population density of over 800 people per square mile, Sri Lanka is probably the most HIGHLY POPULATED nation in the world! When MORE land is alienated to MORE recently arrived immigrants (legal or immigrant) what other option will the native citizens of SL have other than to flee abroad to be able to buy a piece of land for him/herself? Land in Mount Lavinia costs MORE than suburban land in the San Francisco East Bay areas of the United States! You want us to handover our Motherland to foreigners, while we ourselves become foreigners in foreign lands?
2. Sri Lanka is a paradise compared to sand desert like Saudi Arabia, and frozen ice deserts like Norway (highest per capita income, over $120,000 in the world), temporarily AWASH in trillions of dollars of OIL income. What chance will the native citizens of Sri Lanka (per capita income less than $5,000) have in buying power if land is available for purchase by Saudis (and even those Sri Lankans funded by Saudis) and rich Westerners earning $50,000 and above every year?
Sri Lankans will be pushed more and more into hovels or become renters of apartments to be milked like dairy cows confined immobile in sheds to enrich the newly arrived foreign immigrants who own them. When the ownership of the LAND is ALIENATED, what MEANING is there to CITIZENSHIP exercised by renters?
Go to Hawaii and see how the native Hawaiians eke out a living performing Hula Dances for foreign tourists while the white men from the continental United States who ROBBED them blind, own all of the glittering hotels and resorts that we associate with Hawaii. That is how a conquered Hawaiian people, brainwashed by the missionary immigrants who married their royalty, slowly taking command of their land, building plantations, engineering coup-de-etats, toppling the Hawaiian royalty, and annexing sovereign Hawaii to the US as a State, were ROBBED WHOLESALE by the IMMIGRANTS who were allowed to creep into the nation, so the royalty could get a few baubles and be anointed as good Christians!
Today, the impoverished Hawaiians live in the backwoods of Hawaii, while the immigrants live in the lap of luxury. That WILL ALSO BE the inevitable consequence of relaxing immigration rules into a lovely land of SRi Lanka we call our Mother!
3. A better policy than inviting foreigners to come to Sri Lanka as IMMIGRANTS is to only let them come as temporary visitors to TRAIN OUR PEOPLE, and develop the country so that there are better jobs and a better quality of life for our OWN people, so they NEED NOT CONTEMPLATE leaving Sri Lanka to earn money to PROVIDE A GOOD LIFE for their families.
Your suggestion would RECREATE the DISASTER PERPETRATED by the British who IMPORTED Tamil laborers into Sri Lanka to work the coffee and tea plantations GROWN on lands STOLEN BY FORCE from the conquered Sinhala people. As a result, today we have a potential demographic problem of Upcountry Tamils who may join the Eelam struggle too.
Today, there are QUALIFIED SRi Lankans working in foreign lands, in every area of professional expertise, working and contributing to the GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT of Foreign Nations, while Mother Lanka lies fallow devoid of its sons and daughters to help till the fertile fiels in technology, healthcare, research and development and university teaching.
What is WRONG with this picture? Why is Sri Lanka not making it possible for our own sons and daughters, highly qualified and highly rewarded in foreign countries, to earn that salary that would be paid to a "qualified" foreign immigrant invited to come and work in Sri Lanka?
WHY, for heavens sake, Why? Would not that money paid to our own remain in Sri Lanka, rather than be repatriated abroad?
Sampanthan is a Bloody TRAITOR … lying through his teeth …. trying to ABSOLVE HIMSELF of responsibility for COLLUSION in the attempt to REVIVE the LTTE insurgency.
Ordinary Tamils may oppose return to violence, but the TNA under his Leadership, aiding and abetting Eelamist rebellion, DOES NOT.
COLLECT the EVIDENCE, CHARGE HIM with TREASON, PUNISHABLE by DEATH!
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Sampanthan breaks silence over deaths of rebel suspects and says – Tamils oppose return to violence
By Nation.lk
April 27, 2014
Breaking TNA’s silence over deaths of three LTTE suspects in Nedunkarni, TNA Leader R. Sampanthan said Saturday (April 26) that the Tamil population in the country was opposed to returning to violence.
In an interview with ‘The Nation’, MP Sampanthan stated that he was unaware as to whether the LTTE was in fact regrouping in Sri Lanka, but added that the Government should take action if there was anything illegal happening.
This is the first time the Tamil National Alliance made its position clear about alleged resurgence of the LTTE in the North and illegal activities of some ex-LTTE members.
“There were reports of a clash. Whether in fact a clash occurred, I do not know. There is a view amongst the Tamil people in particular and also shared by others, that the government is overreacting to the resolution in Geneva. That the government is trying to intimidate the Tamil civilian population, who could provide vital evidence in regard to the matters contained in the resolution, into silence, and that some of these events have been orchestrated with that purpose,” Sampanthan said.
He added that he was generally of the view that the Tamil population was opposed to any form of violence.
When asked about arrests of LTTE suspects in the North, Sampanthan said he was not aware of any arrests and he was not aware of any incidents.
“What I’m saying is that there is a view that these incidents could have been orchestrated because the Government is overreacting to the resolution passed in Geneva. I’m not a witness to any of those things. And as far as I’m concerned, The Tamil civilian population doesn’t want to return to any violence,” Sampanthan said.
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