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Tom Brake MP Stands Up For The Rights of Tamil Community

October 29, 2009 3:00 PM

Last Wednesday in Parliament a debate took place on Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps in Sri Lanka.

Speaking in the debate Tom Brake MP for Carshalton and Wallington said, 'I have been working closely on this issue with my Tamil community for a number of months, not because I am pro-Tamil or anti-Sinhalese, but because I am pro-human rights, and the human rights of the Tamil community are being grossly infringed and are under a sustained onslaught in Sri Lanka.'

Commenting after the debate Tom said, 'I hope that the Minister will be able to reassure us that the Government are pushing at all the vulnerable points to secure an outcome that helps the Tamils and brings longer-term peace and stability to Sri Lanka as a whole.

All party support for this issue seemed to break with the comments made by the Conservative spokesman Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown who challenged Joan Rider, the Labour MP who secured the debate, over the Government's trade relations with Sri Lanka.

Mr Clifton- Brown said 'She and her colleagues must be very careful about calling for the Sri Lankan Government to be punished by the ending of trade preferences with Europe.'

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