Among the 12 is also a former Tamil Tiger TV presenter, Rathimohan Lokini, who has given interviews saying how terrified she is that she could be raped and killed like another well known colleague, Isaipriya, who was identified among the half naked female bodies in trophy photographs taken by the victorious soldiers at the end of the war. Solicitor Geetharthanan said a panel of Senior Judges in the UK, when deciding the new Country Guidance case for Sri Lanka has made it well clear that journalists who supported separatism in Sri Lanka “are at high risk of persecution”. “This is a conclusive evidence of the fate of the Tamil Journalist, Lokihini in Dubai. In the light of this new Upper Tribunal decision, the UNHCR must put pressure on the safe countries to reconsider their decisions and allow safe re-settlement for these Tamil refugees,” he said, adding that the countries signatory to the Refugee Convention should also bare in mind that their failure to prevent torture and crime against humanity also amounts to a compliance of such crime. “The safe Countries have a responsibility to protect this Tamil Refugees from being deported to Sri Lanka where they will be persecuted with no doubt,” he stressed.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 02:53:31 +0000