Jayalalith​a aska that the Tamils be treated with equality and dinity

The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Jayalalitha Jayaram has urged Sri Lanka to treat the Tamil community living in the country on par with the Sinhalese community.

Jayalalitha, who leads southern Tamil Nadu's ruling ADMK, had raised the issue during her meeting with the Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh yesterday.
“The Sri Lankan Tamils want more than anything else, and what we as Tamilians want more than anything else is that the Sri Lankan Tamils who are still living in the camps are allowed to return to their own places and allowed to resettle in the same places where they were living before and that they are allowed to lead lives of dignity, with equal rights on par with the Sinhalese citizens,” said Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha.
Highlighting the discrepancies in the figures released by the  Sri Lankan government and the private agencies during the final stages of the war, Jayalalitha told the media in New Delhi that she had asked the Indian Prime Minister to look into this matter and verify the truth.
“There are lots of  discrepancies in the figures being put out by the Sri Lankan government and the private agencies as to the number of Sri Lankan Tamils killed in the camps. Private agencies put the numbers at a higher figures whereas the Sri Lankan government says there are only 10,000 people in the camps. So I have asked the Prime Minister to verify the truth,” noted the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Jayalalitha Jayaram.
Jayalalitha also highlighted the issues faced by the Indian fishermen who are accused of entering Sri Lankan waters.
“Our fishermen must be allowed to fish in waters around Kachchativu. Our fishermen do not have any other means of livelihood. They do not know any other trade and Kachchativu is only eleven kilometres away from the Tamil Nadu coast. There is no catch to be had on our side of the international boundary line, so they have to go to Kachchativu if they are to get a decent catch.” said the Jayalalitha Jayaram.

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40 Sri Lankans who are being deported back into danger from the UK.????

As Channel 4 broadcasts a harrowing documentary about atrocities at the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, we learn of at least 40 Sri Lankans who are being deported back into danger from the UK. The Channel 4 documentary, Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, features devastating video evidence of horrific war crimes committed by both the Sri Lankan Government and the Tamil Tigers in the final weeks of Sri Lanka's civil war, in 2009.

And it did not end there. Channel 4 News recently obtained evidence from within Sri Lanka's "closed off" corner, showing evidence of ongoing repression and abuse in the country.

Now we can reveal that Sri Lankans who fled to the UK for safety are being forced back into Sri Lanka - and into danger.
At least 40 asylum seekers, the majority of whom are Tamil, are being deported from the UK on a charter flight in two days' time.  This is despite the Home Office's own report on Sri Lanka, published in April, which says that "despite the end of the fighting, there continued to be human rights violations in 2010, including disappearances and extra-judicial killings, arbitrary arrests and a restriction on political space for free expression".
At the end of the 2009 war, the Sri Lankan Government defeated the Tamil Tiger organisation. Fresh footage in the Channel 4 documentary reveals new evidence of Sri Lanka executions committed during the war, on top of many other similar videos.
However, it was not just the Tamil Tigers who were defeated. Up to 40,000 Sri Lankan civilians are also believed to have died, many of whom were Tamil, and others fled - including to the UK, where some held protests calling for the UK Government to intervene in the war in 2009 (pictured below).  rights organisations believe Tamils are still in fear of their lives in Sri Lanka - particularly those with any links, including family ties, to the Tigers. But they could now be forced back by the UK Government.
The Home Office has refused to confirm the existence of the deportation flight, but Channel 4 News has obtained a copy of one of the deportation orders: flight number PVT 030 to Sri Lanka, on Thursday.

Sam Zarifi, Asia Programme Director at Amnesty International, told Channel 4 News: "It is known that rejected asylum seekers have been detained and tortured.

"If the UK authorities were to rely on assurances drawn from the reported experiences of people returned to Sri Lanka over a year ago, that would not take into account the intervening increased hostility expressed by the Sri Lankan Government, in response to calls for an inquiry into war crimes committed at the end of the civil war.
"In such a climate, we would be alarmed if returns were being considered without an adequate assessment of the current threats to the safety of individuals, in a contemporary Sri Lanka, where tensions run high."
But a UK Border Agency spokesperson said: "Returns to Sri Lanka will only be undertaken if we are satisfied that the individual has no protection needs. The improving political and security situation in Sri Lanka has meant it is safe to remove people there."
Fear for their lives , However, those facing deportation told us they are terrified of what could happen to them if they are sent back - and worry they are in an even worse position following actions by the Home Office.
Five of the people on the deportation list for Thursday allege that they have had incriminating paperwork supplied by the Home Office to the Sri Lankan authorities tainting them with association with the Tigers. One has already tried to commit suicide to avoid what could happen to him in Sri Lanka.
He told us he feels his confidentiality has been breached by the Home Office and his already fragile safety has been put further at risk.
Amnesty International's Mr Zarifi added: "If people are being returned to Sri Lanka, who are known or are suspected to be Tamils associated with the LTTE, the possibility of reprisals from the authorities are of course a concern."
The Home Office denied passing the paperwork to the Sri Lankans and said that one of the five cases was under review. see this video

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The documentary about the Sri Lankan civil war features footage of executions, massacre victims and the corpses of women who appear to have been raped. Dorothy Byrne, head of Channel 4 news and current affairs, said: "I don't urge you to watch this programme. "It's horrific. The images will remain in your mind. There are probably many adults who shouldn't watch. "I would definitely say pregnant women shouldn't look at it. I would rather I'd never seen it." But she said bosses decided to screen Sri Lanka's Killing Fields to draw attention to war crimes by troops in 2009 in the fight against Tamil separatists. "The decision to show it at length was made only after serious and careful consideration." It will be screened at 11.05pm. WATCHDOG Ofcom is braced for a flood of complaints today after BBC2 showed a man dying in a suicide clinic last night. It received 191 complaints before Choosing To Die was broadcast.

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