John Dowd QC, President of the International Commission of Jurists in Australia, and Head of Action Aid Australia accused the Australian government of "enormous conceit" in its failure to pressure Sri Lanka into getting the war displaced civilians home.
Four months on from the defeat of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, and nearly 300,000 people displaced in the last bitter months of the civil war are still detained in refugee camps. At the weekend, even as Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka told the UN he's making resettling the refugees a priority, government troops fired on a group of civilians trying to escape one of the camps, wounding two people, Radio Australia said.
John Dowd QC was interviewed by Radio Australia.
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Presenter: Michael Cavanagh
Speaker: John Dowd QC, president, International Commission of Jurists Australia
