ON 20 MAY Leon Brittan, Home Secretary, nounced that it was safe for Tamils to return to Sri Lanka. tional rights on behalf of those seeking refugee SEALED. demanding that Sri Lankan passport holders, Commonwealth citizens, should only be allowed entry into Britain if they had visas from the Sri Lankan High Commission.
This means that Tamil refugees, trom genocide in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka, will be denied refuge in this country and those already here are under threat of deportation.
Under United Nations conventions visas cannot ing from terrefugees fleeing from terror.
BELISA government is a signatory to these convenLOTS Thatcher ki La kar knows ful well airlines will not transport Tamils to Britain without a visa because the airlines themselves will be charged the cost of a Tamil's stay in Harmondsworth.
Amnesty International has cocumented 1982 the instances of anti-Tamil systematic torture, arbitrary arrest, extra udicial killings. Under th Sri Lankan Prevention o Terrorism Act people can be imprisoned for 18 months without trial.
The violence in the North carried out by Sinhalese fanatics and the Sinhalese security forces is volene aginst the entire Tamil community. As Rajes of the Tamil Refugee Action Tamil nation is dying explains, *The the hands of, Sinhalese fascism. Jaffna is a ruined city. It's been bombarded the army who have destroyed houses, schools and temples. ment has insisted that the Yet the Tory issue is one of dealing with Tamil terrorists. This is exactly the Buddhist fanatic Jayawardene regime Inland 6 months £8; Nine days later he curtailed MPs tradiHe also took the unprecedented step of portrays the situation in the Sri Lankan press by only reporting Tamil Tiger killIngs to sur up naurca belween the Sinhalese Tamil population. can the return? asks Rajes they seen the mass murder? Have they seen the representatives of our community? We are part of the think wealth.
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ruthless her cy ista do stre Lan da visit Sri •Lanka where she made it clear she would back the Sinhalese regime. She also urge Ragiv Ghandi to clear the Tamils out of southern India on that trip. In April 1984 Tamil refugees were being allowed stay, tedly. But now they are being askca to cave.
Thousands have fled to India and others to West Germany, Holland Switzer ane Lanka was a British colony from 1833. Until 1956 Englist was the official language Sri should be a natural refuge for Tamil victims of this outbreak of terror. The Tory racists must be forced to let the refugees come here and forced to let them stay. Noona Savings Certicates IS To ensure departure this barrier immediately the train 1s