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“I’m getting calls every day from people who want to come to the upcoming refugee rights rally in Canberra. People who have been part of the community for ten years, and are devastated. I’m getting calls from people in detention, people who celebrated when the Liberals were kicked out, and are now realising that nothing will change for them.” 

More than a decade later, the military general who oversaw this atrocity is now the President of Sri Lanka, and the survivors of the war remain in danger, still waiting for justice.

Activists gathered to protest ethnic cleansing and Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestine yesterday.