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Tamil People Of Sri Lanka

EDM number 537 in 1996-97, proposed by Dafydd Wigley on 14/02/1997.

That this House calls on Her Majesty's Government to intervene urgently with the government of Sri Lanka to put an end to gross human rights abuses of rape, torture and extra-judicial killings; notes that since the army occupation of Jaffna peninsula, massive numbers of the disposed and uprooted civilians are disappearing in a secret and systematic ethnic cleansing and ecological genocide; records its opposition to Her Majesty's Government's arms sale and military assistance, knowing that this destructive support is used in the furtherance of the Tamil ethnic cleansing, in Tamil concentrated areas of Colombo and Northeast homelands; recognises that Britain has a special obligation to protect ethnic Tamils, who were put at the mercy of a majority Sinhalese 48 years ago by the British government; calls upon Her Majesty's Government to act urgently in the withdrawal of the armed occupation forces in Jaffna and to join the United Nations Secretary General to find an early negotiated political solution to this conflict; notes that international human rights organisations continue to accuse the Sri Lankan authorities of engaging in rape, torture, death and disappearances; and further calls upon Her Majesty's Government, in view of the escalation of arrests and detention of Tamils in Colombo, to impose a moratorium on all removal notices on Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Dafydd Wigley14/02/1997CaernarfonProposed
Ieuan Wyn Jones14/02/1997Ynys MSigned
Elfyn Llwyd14/02/1997Meirionnydd Nant ConwySigned
Lawrence Cunliffe17/02/1997LeighSigned
Andrew Faulds17/02/1997Warley EastSigned
Ken Livingstone18/02/1997Brent EastSigned
Keith Bradley18/02/1997Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Norman Godman18/02/1997Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Dennis Turner18/02/1997Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Russell Johnston19/02/1997Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Michael Clapham19/02/1997Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Kenneth Eastham19/02/1997Manchester, BlackleySigned
Harry Barnes19/02/1997North East DerbyshireSigned
Richard Burden20/02/1997Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
Audrey Wise20/02/1997PrestonSigned
Win Griffiths20/02/1997BridgendSigned
Mike Hall24/02/1997Warrington SouthSigned
Eddie Loyden27/02/1997Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Bill Etherington27/02/1997Sunderland NorthSigned
John Gunnell05/03/1997Leeds South and MorleySigned
Jim Wallace05/03/1997Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Robert Wareing12/03/1997Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Martyn Jones18/03/1997Clwyd South WestSigned
Dennis Skinner20/03/1997BolsoverSigned
Lynne Jones20/03/1997Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Liz Lynne20/03/1997RochdaleSigned
Maria Fyfe20/03/1997Glasgow, MaryhillSigned

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