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Sri Lankan security forces face visa denials for rights abuses
Monday, 11 June 2007 - 7:20 PM SL Time |  | |
Sri Lankan security forces face visa denials for rights abuses
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COLOMBO (AFP) - Western diplomats here said Monday that Sri Lankan security force members may be denied visas if they have human rights abuse charges against them, after one senior police officer said a European country had rejected him.
`The checking on any reports of abuses was something that was done even before, but now there is a new urgency to screen more thoroughly,` an official at a Western embassy said.
He said all visa applicants were routinely subjected to interviews, but in the case of military personnel and police any adverse rights record would be grounds to deny a visa.
An inspector involved in expelling minority ethnic Tamils from Colombo this month told reporters at the weekend he had been denied a visa to an unnamed European country because of the action.
Sri Lanka`s Supreme Court on Friday restrained police chief Victor Perera and all officers in charge of stations in Colombo from carrying out any more evictions of minority Tamils.
All military personnel and police would also face tight screening and could be denied visas if they faced court charges for rights abuses in the country`s bitter ethnic war, other Western diplomats said.
Human rights organisations have already called for foreign travel bans on Sri Lankan officials implicated in rights abuses. More than 1,000 people have `disappeared` or are suspected to have been killed by security forces in the past 15 months.
Both the government and Tamil Tiger rebels have been accused of rights abuses in the island`s northeast, where a surge in fighting has claimed more than 5,000 lives since December 2005.
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ajan
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11 Jun 2007 12:27:14 GMT Report for Abuse
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Following Visa Rejection , Government ministers are gethering to issue an appology to tamils.
it was said western country may ban Srilankan President and ministers to travel to their country.
therefore a BIG Appology
Or BIG Blame Game ( accusing police and army officers of acting without mandate etc)
this will be to fool the western government.
it was also suspected japan wanted to cut the aid too on human right ground.
but Mahinda reported to ahave signed many deals favouring Japan.
therfore Japan unlikely to stop or cut aid. |
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11 Jun 2007 12:45:25 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ajan,
Is that you in that photo?
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ajan
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11 Jun 2007 13:00:05 GMT Report for Abuse
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Check with yahoo news service whos picture is this.
it was in their website to show srilankan army. |
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