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New York, New York (PRWEB) January 05, 2012
Tamils for Obama wrote a letter to Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake in which they recognized his role in forcing the GOSL to create an investigating body—the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission—and asked him to denounce the commission’s final report as biased and inadequate, and to call for an international tribunal to investigate the war crimes committed during the final stages of the Sri Lankan civil war.
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Washington, DC (PRWEB) January 01, 2012
Tamils for Obama sent the president a letter wishing him a happy and successful 2012, and urging him to take measures to save the Tamils in Sri Lanka in 2012.
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New York, NY (PRWEB) November 02, 2011
Four Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MPs were invited by the US State Department to visit the US and meet with officials from the Department of State (DoS), the White House, and Congress. All four of the TNA members attended these meetings. This was the first time since the end of the Sri Lankan mass killing of Tamils that TNA representatives visited Washington, DC. Tamils for Obama extended special thanks to State Department officials for arranging and facilitating this visit.
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New York, NY (PRWEB) August 24, 2011
Ahead of the reported visit to Colombo of Ambassador Robert Blake, Tamils for Obama urged him to understand the enormous suffering of Tamil civilians over the years. Most recently was the UN-reported killing of 40,000 Tamil civilians near the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, and the widespread and on-going rape of Tamil women by Sri Lankan Army personnel, which also has been reported by the UN.
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New York, NY (PRWEB) July 25, 2011
Tamils for Obama has been passing around DVDs of UK Channel 4’s documentary “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields.” The Tamil group expects that increased viewing of this story of Sri Lankan horrors will bring greater awareness and sympathy to their movement. They also expect that the DVD will generate chatter among the Congress people to whom they’ve delivered it, and that President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton will want to know what the chatter is about, and so Tamils for Obama is sending copies of the DVD to Obama and Clinton.
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New York, NY (PRWEB) July 15, 2011
Hillary Clinton will be making the first ever visit of a US Secretary of State to the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and Tamils for Obama makes some suggestions about what Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister Jayalalithaa should say to her when they chat. The American Tamil group recommends that the two leaders endorse the UN Panel of Experts Report and its recommendations. They also suggest that Clinton and Jayalalithaa push for an internationally supervised referendum in the North and East of Sri Lanka like the one recently held in southern Sudan, which resulted in the world’s newest state.
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Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 01, 2011
Southern Sudan recently had a referendum asking whether the region should become a sovereign state separate from the rest of Sudan. It passed overwhelmingly and appears likely to result in a new state. Tamils for Obama is soliciting signatures for a petition asking for a similar referendum to be held in northeastern Sri Lanka and proposing an independent homeland for the region’s Tamils.
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New York, NY (PRWEB) May 06, 2011
The Sri Lankan government is clearly worried about the UN Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka. They will probably agree to almost anything to make this report disappear. Tamils for Obama suggests that whatever the SL government agrees to will probably be ignored (as GOSL has done in the past) as soon as the UN report is buried. Tamils for Obama recommends that the Tamil National Alliance not tie the UN war crimes report to any other issues.
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New York, NY (PRWEB) May 13, 2011
Tamils for Obama, a US Tamil group, wrote to Chief Minister Jeyalalitha congratulating her on her recent election victory and detailing why Tamils for Obama admires and supports her. In the letter they cite her support for a Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka and her vocal support of the UN panel report accusing Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa of “war crimes and genocide” during the Sri Lankan civil war.
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New York, NY (PRWEB) April 26, 2011
China, a growing and ambitious world power, has cultivated a relationship with the strategically located island of Sri Lanka. Tamils for Obama suggests that a role of moral leadership--in this case, support for the Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka--will benefit China more in the long run than protecting Sri Lanka.
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