Terrorist Organisation Offences and the LTTE: R v Vinayagamoorthy
Terrorist Organisation Offences and the LTTE: R v Vinayagamoorthy
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恐怖组织犯罪和猛虎组织：R 诉 Vinayagamoorthy
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10.1080/10345329.2010.12035875
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2010
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Vicki Sentas
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Vicki Sentas
摘要 2010 年 3 月 31 日，三名泰米尔澳大利亚人因向泰米尔伊拉姆猛虎解放组织 (猛虎组织) 提供资源而被判刑，这突显了将组织定性为“恐怖分子”的法律的固有问题。被告 Vinayagamoorthy、Yathavan 和 Rajeevan 对根据《1945 年联合国宪章法》（联邦）提出的指控表示认罪。维多利亚州最高法院认定，他们的行动并非出于恐怖主义目的，尽管向猛虎组织提供的一些资源被发现具有直接的军事目的。重要的是，法院在量刑时考虑了猛虎组织的政治地位以及侨民支持家园重建的合法性。该评论认为，这些考虑部分颠覆了恐怖组织法将自决定为犯罪的目的。然而，此案的处理揭示了泰米尔侨民因违背集体民族政治认同而遭受的毁灭性的犯罪定罪。这次起诉也反映了澳大利亚恐怖组织法如何使斯里兰卡的血腥战争合法化——不仅针对猛虎组织，而且还针对泰米尔人民犯下了战争罪行。
Abstract The sentencing on 31 March 2010 of three Tamil Australians for providing resources to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) underscores the inherent problems with laws designating organisations as ‘terrorist’. The defendants — Vinayagamoorthy, Yathavan and Rajeevan — pleaded guilty to charges under the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 (Cth). The Victorian Supreme Court found that their actions were not for a terrorist purpose, although some of the resources provided to the LTTE were found to have a direct military purpose. It is significant that the Court took into account, as relevant to sentencing, the political status of the LTTE and the legitimacy of diasporic support for homeland reconstruction. This Comment argues that these considerations partially subverted the purpose of terrorist organisation law to criminalise self-determination. The conduct of the case, however, reveals the devastating criminalisation inflicted on the Tamil diaspora by acting against collective ethnic political identity. This prosecution also reflects how Australian terrorist organisation laws functioned to legitimate Sri Lanka's bloody war — not only against the LTTE, but also its war crimes against the Tamil people.