Immigration confirm they recently returned 41 people to Sri Lanka, “including 37 Sinhalese and 4 Tamil Sri Lankan nationals”.
http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/media/sm/2014/sm216152.htm
Looking outside the influence of Australian media, this article (1) reports that “LTTE suspects abuse UNHCR refugee policy”.
In the first sentence Prof. Rohan Gunaratna says “recent arrests indicated that the majority who applied for and received refugee status were not genuine”.
Is there a correlation between the recent returns and nation.lk’s article? have we prevented LTTE members establishing here or has our Government sent people back to a horrible future? will we ever know the facts behind the articles?
What do you think?
Update: according to SMH (2) these people “all thought they could get jobs”, but the refugee convention is for protection from persecution, not job hunting.