Posts Tagged ‘Tamil refugees’
Tamil refugees told to get out of Sri Lanka or suffer persecutionBy Editor - April 2nd, 2010 |
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THOUSANDS of desperate Tamil refugees in Sri Lanka have a stark choice: stay and be persecuted or risk the long, dangerous voyage to Australia. A senior diplomat, experienced in people smuggling matters, said Sri Lanka’s government cared about neither the refugees’ fate nor Australia’s boat people predicament. |
Sri Lanka: Tamils on probation [video]By Editor - March 30th, 2010 |
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Six months ago in Sri Lanka, as the last bastion of the Tamil Tigers fell, tens of thousands of civilians who had fled the fighting were detained in refugee camps. Now the Sri Lankan army has given them permission to return home. We went to meet these refugees who have lost everything. |
Tamil refugees face deportationBy Editor - March 21st, 2010 |
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In the Christmas Island detention centre’s Alpha Compound — a maximum security-style section holding refugees from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka — Tamil refugees are desperately appealing to the Australian government not to send them back to Sri Lanka. Three Tamils recently had their refugee claims rejected, but are fighting the decision. But the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) could harm their bid for protection. The agency said it was “actively reviewing” and may “downgrade” its international protection guidelines for Sri Lanka. Alarmingly, it is doing the same for Afghanistan. |
