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Australian senator calls for SL envoy expulsion

Australian senator of the Greens party, Lee Rhiannon, called for the expulsion of Sri Lanka's High Commissioner Thisara Samarasinghe.

Accusing him of boasting about how Sri Lanka caught Tamil asylum seekers trying to flee the civil war, Rhiannon stated he was a war criminal.

According to the Canberra Times, Australian Federal Police dismissed the charges of war crimes against him 'more than four months ago'.

Dismissing the Foreign Minister's claims that the Greens cannot be trusted with Australia's international relations, the Greens leader, Christine Milne, said that the party's foreigh policy issues aligned "totally with the majority of the Australian community".

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