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Ranjini deemed genuine refugee earlier now detained as security risk

17 May 2012, 9:16 pm

Ranjini's nightmare began last Thursday when she received a telephone call at her Melbourne home from immigration officials

by Michael Gordon

Ranjini was found to be a genuine refugee before ASIO decided last week she is a security risk for Australia. But the government won’t tell her why, and now she’s facing a life in detention.

IT SHOULD have been cause for unbridled joy. Having fled the trauma and tragedy of life in Sri Lanka, Ranjini had been found to be a refugee, married the man who would be a father to her two boys and begun a new life in suburban Melbourne. Now she was pregnant.
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Sri Lankan Supreme Court petitioned to disqualify Tamil political parties under Sixth Constitutional Amendment

17 May 2012, 9:14 pm

by R. K. Radhakrishnan

Most Tamil political parties in Sri Lanka could become things of the past if the Supreme Court acts on a petition that seeks disqualification of the parties for retaining the demand for a separate state in their party documents, called constitutions.

Long after the Tamil political parties dropped their demand for a separate state, their unamended party constitutions, in which the demand for a Tamil Eelam are stated, have come to haunt them.

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The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, enacted in August 1983, prohibits political parties from having as one of their aims the establishment of a separate State. [Click here to read in full ~ on dbsjeyaraj.com: Sri Lankan Supreme Court petitioned to disqualify Tamil political parties under Sixth Constitutional Amendment]

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