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Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: What are Asylum Seekers fleeing from?


Date: 21st August 2013
Time: 12:30 PM - 13:30 PM

Location: EH 1.001

To gain more knowledge on what causes someone to flee their homeland in hope of safety in Australia join Murdoch's Refugee Rights Action Network for a documentary screening about Tamil refugees.


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When: Wednesday the 21st of August 12.30pm

Where: Murdoch campus room EH 1.001

Although the number of asylum seekers arriving by boat made up just 0.03% of the Australian population last year we hear so much about them. We hear they are 'illegals', 'queue jumpers', ' human cargo' and most recently they are a 'national crisis' but how much are we told about the atrocities they are fleeing from?