Asylum seekers who sought protection in Australia and were returned to Sri Lanka say they have been tortured, in new claims aired on SBS.
In an SBS Dateline program aired on Tuesday night two asylum seekers – known as Bhanu and Narada – made allegations they had been tortured after being returned to Sri Lanka from Australia.
Despite the end of the civil war in 2009 between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam there have continued to be allegations of torture and rape of Tamils by the government.
Bhanu told the program: “They always hit me. They took this nail and this nail and this nail, they removed, with one of those things they use with electricity.
“They put two chairs with a pole between them and tied me like this – very painful.” Full story...
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In an SBS Dateline program aired on Tuesday night two asylum seekers – known as Bhanu and Narada – made allegations they had been tortured after being returned to Sri Lanka from Australia.
Despite the end of the civil war in 2009 between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam there have continued to be allegations of torture and rape of Tamils by the government.
Bhanu told the program: “They always hit me. They took this nail and this nail and this nail, they removed, with one of those things they use with electricity.
“They put two chairs with a pole between them and tied me like this – very painful.” Full story...
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- Britain's shameful complicity in Sri Lanka's torture...
- Hundreds of Tamil refugees in Britain sent back to Sri Lanka to face torture...
- Britain's three decades of dirty war against the Tamil people...
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