Tim Martin (human rights)

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Tim Martin
NationalityBritish
OccupationAid Worker
OrganizationAct Now
Known forHuman Rights Activist

Tim Martin is the Director of the Human Rights Campaign group Act Now. As a former British humanitarian aid worker who worked in Sri Lanka, Martin founded Act Now with fellow aid workers after seeing human rights violations and mass killing in Sri Lanka against Tamils.[1] In 2009, Martin went on a 21-day fast outside British Parliament to protest against the killing of Tamils in Sri Lanka.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

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  1. ^ Act now
  2. ^ "Hunger strike of British Aid worker enters 16th day". Tamilnet. 3 June 2009. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  3. ^ "British Aid worker suspends hunger strike". Tamilnet. 9 June 2009. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  4. ^ Hunger Striker's plea to Obama
  5. ^ Tamil demonstrators say Times report backs massacre claims
  6. ^ "Activist seized from lawyer's car in Sri Lanka". Mark Tran. The Guardian. 20 May 2009. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  7. ^ "Tamil woman raped by Sri Lankan soldiers to be deported". Channel4. 4 July 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  8. ^ "Tim Martin of "Act Now" seeks justice for Sri Lankan Tamils". transcurrents.com. Archived from the original on June 22, 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  9. ^ "Thousands to march in support of Tamils". Colombo Times. 10 April 2009. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2015 – via HighBeam.
  10. ^ "Act Now plays with wrong script on Lanka". Daily News. 12 February 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  11. ^ "British NGO pushes for Sudan type referendum in SL". The Island. 9 February 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2017.

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