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Abbott’s Disgrace
by christine Friday, May 9 2014, 12:31am
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Oz PM Tony ‘errand boy’ Abbott, ignores Sri Lankan war and other crimes against humanity in order to facilitate Packer plans for casino and resort investments in Sri Lanka -- how low can you go serving plutocrats, Tony?

Thanks, Tony

Treason and serving mega-wealthy plutocrats, Rinehart, Murdoch and Packer are outright constitutional legal violations but complying with the wishes of proven Sri Lankan war criminals -- BBC footage, UN reports, and international medical personnel support BBC footage -- is another dimension of immorality. The Australian Liberal (conservative) Party has sunk to depths no Australian would have previously imagined, but Abbott is nothing if not completely obedient to the unrepresentative interests that placed him in power and to hell with morality, the Oz majority, justice and horrific crimes against humanity!

Tony Abbot and his minister for immigration Scott Morrison, were very happy (see link) to appease and accommodate the Sri Lankan gangster government in order to facilitate Packer investments in the region. Frankly, I am disgusted by this sickening display of cowardice and immorality and the international shame it casts on the Australian nation.

It becomes clear that Abbott and his despicable, amoral, arse-licking government must be dealt with -- REMOVED -- by the public as soon as possible. Democracy is participation not a once in three year event. When characters like Tony Abbott reveal their true criminal nature regarding indisputable war crimes and other heinous crimes against humanity, corrective action must be taken and if that includes booting Abbott and his lackey ministers out of office then so be it -- Abbott is clearly the POLAR OPPOSITE of all traditional Australian values.


Report from the SMH follows:

Sri Lanka thanks Australia for its 'bold' decision
by Sarah Whyte

The Sri Lankan government has publicly thanked Australia for its "bold" decision not to co-sponsor a UN resolution to investigate alleged human rights abuses in the south Asian nation.

According to a statement by the Sri Lankan high commission, Sri Lanka thanked Australia for the ‘‘bold decision of not co-sponsoring this year’s human rights resolution on Sri Lanka’’.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and the head of Operation Sovereign Borders, Lieutenant-General Angus Campbell, welcomed a Sri Lanka delegation, including Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, formally invited by the federal government.

"[The] government of Australia considers accountability and human rights concerns should be addressed within an internal mechanism and not by any international investigation as suggested by other countries," the high commission statement said.

"[The] Australian side indicated that they would render all possible assistance to Sri Lanka in this regard," it said.

Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop then met with the country's External Affairs Minister Professor G.L. Peiris. During their meeting, Mr Peiris also thanked Ms Bishop for her understanding of the "Sri Lankan situation", and for declining to co-sponsor the Resolution against Sri Lanka at the Human Rights Council in March, the high commission said in a separate statement.

A spokeswoman for Ms Bishop said the meeting between the two ministers was confidential.

"The Australian Government has a well known policy of engagement with the Sri Lankan Government and a constructive and diverse relationship with Sri Lanka. We continue to work closely with the Sri Lankan Government on a range of matters," she said.

International lawyers have strongly condemned the delegation meeting, saying it was a distraction to the country's gross human rights violations - including forced abductions, torture, and extrajudicial killings by state forces, land seizures by the military and oppression of political opponents that plagued Sri Lanka during the 26-year civil war that ended in 2009.

“The visit shows the price this Government is willing to pay in its one-eyed obsession to stop the boats," said Emily Howie, director of Advocacy and Research Human Rights Law Centre. "Not just silence on ongoing human rights abuses in Sri Lanka, but a concerted effort to stifle international efforts at justice for victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity,” Ms Howie said.

Ms Bishop voiced her opposition to an international investigation into the alleged war crimes in March, saying she was not convinced that the UN-backed inquiry was "the best way forward", refusing to co-sponsor the UN's independent investigation.

During November's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Australia did not join other major countries that criticised the regime's human rights abuses. Both India and Canada boycotted the meeting, while the United Kingdom's prime minister David Cameron publicly condemned the regime. In contrast, Prime Minister Tony Abbott presented the government with two patrol boats.

© 2014 Fairfax Media

Packer -- wake up James, the price is far too high

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