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May 31st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “The United Kingdom should immediately suspend deportations of ethnic Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka and review its policies in assessing these claims,” the HRW release said.
Dozens of Tamil refugees will be forcibly removed from an undisclosed London airport and fly direct to Colombo today on May 31, 2012, despite evidence showing they face arrest and retribution on their return and the UK Foreign Office’s latest report on human rights describing Sri Lanka as an area of “serious concern” when it comes to abuses.
Human rights organizations have called on the UK Border Agency to halt the flight, after investigations by the HRW found 13 credible cases over the past two years in which failed Tamil asylum seekers from Europe have been tortured upon their return to Sri Lanka, warning that those cases are likely to be “just the tip of the iceberg.”
“There are likely to be many more cases, because these are the people who have managed to find their way from Sri Lanka to the UK, and that we have managed to interview,” said David Mepham, director of HRW UK.
“Until the government can fairly and thoroughly assess asylum claims based on up-to-date human rights information on Sri Lanka, it should suspend returns.”
There have been at least four chartered planes in the last six months dispatching hundreds of Tamils to Sri Lanka where they may have been persecuted due to their ethnicity.
The UK Border Agency also forcefully sent 555 people to Sri Lanka last year including 235 failed asylum-seekers.
Meanwhile, earlier in March, Campaign against Arms Trade (CAAT) urged the coalition government to explain why it continues to license weapons for export to Sri Lanka irrespective of evidence of war crimes committed by the Asian country’s military.
According to the CAAT’s report, Britain has licensed over £3 million worth of military and “dual use” equipment for export to Sri Lanka since the country’s army defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009.
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