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Confirmed: Charter Flight to Sri Lanka 17:00 hrs 16th June

freemovement (repost) | 11.06.2011 01:23 | Anti-racism | Migration

A number of Sri Lankans (mostly Tamils), currently in detention, have contacted 'Freemovement' to say they have Removal Directions for this date.

Around 300 Sri Lankans are to be deported from the United Kingdom to Sri Lanka on June 16, Tamil Mirror online learns.
Sources in the UK told Tamil Mirror that the UK Border Agency had arranged a special charter flight to deport around 300 persons whose asylum requests had been turned down by the authorities.
Mr. Nishan Paramjorthy, a human rights advocate in the UK told Tamil Mirror online that some of his clients had got notice about their “removal” from the UK Border Agency. He said most of the persons to be deported were Tamils.
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An urgent investigation is required as a matter of extreme urgency into an accepted breach of confidentiality in respect of the case of a Sri Lankan Tamil woman detained by the UKBA and pending removal to Sri Lanka on 16 June 2011. It is important to stress that UKBA do not dispute that the breach has occurred as described below.
 http://freemovement.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/breach-of-confidentiality-in-sri-lankan-asylum-return/

Offer of assistance for anyone on Sri Lanka - Charter Flight
We have one of our clients detained at Yarl's wood IRC to be deported to Sri Lanka on the 16th June. Our client's confidential documents were submitted to Sri Lankan High Commission despite assurances from the AIT judge that these documents are confidential. We believe that this is a serious breach of confidentiality and breach of Data Protection Act. On making inquiries that we found that there is a similar case also detained at Yarl's Wood. We suspect that there are many cases similar to this amongst the Sri Lankan refugees detained to be deported on 16th June.
If anyone wants assistance, we may be able to them to draft the grounds of their Judicial Review and injunction applications. As we are a social enterprise by the registered charity "Thamil Community - charity No.1117267, we are lobbying a local MP and Home Office minister to cancel the charter flight on 16th June.
Anyone directly affected or any representative of clients wanting any information, please call Tony Sathyaseelan on 0208 348 2218, Thamil Community Law Centres Ltd

Early day motion 1882: Alleged War Crimes in Sri Lanka
That this House notes Channel 4's documentary, Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, (to be) broadcast on 14 June 2011, which features devastating new video evidence of war crimes during Sri Lanka's civil war; further notes that certain footage has been authenticated by the UN and has been declared as evidence of definitive war crimes by the UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial killings; condemns strongly the Sri Lankan government for dismissing outright the analysis of the UN Special Rapporteur and its unwillingness to engage in a proper accountability process; urges all hon. Members to view the Channel 4 documentary; supports the Government's policy of an independent investigation into these allegations; and calls on the UN to establish an independent, international mechanism to ensure truth, accountability and justice in Sri Lanka.
Primary sponsor: Lee Scott, Date tabled: 08.06.2011

Graphic footage showing summary executions during campaign against Tamil rebels to be shown next week. Channel 4 has sanctioned the broadcast of the most graphic and disturbing images that the network has ever screened, showing summary executions and the corpses of women who appear to have been sexually abused, to highlight evidence of alleged war crimes by Sri Lankan soldiers.
The footage, much of it taken by the troops themselves on their mobile phones as war trophies at the end of the 2009 conflict with Tamil rebels, has been identified by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Christof Heyns, as evidence of "definitive war crimes".

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