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Security forces may be denied visas - Western diplomat
Tuesday, 12 June 2007 - 6:07 AM SL Time
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Western diplomats in Colombo said yesterday Sri Lankan security forces 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 AFP reported.`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.
The 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 northeast, where a surge in fighting has claimed more than 5,000 lives since December 2005.
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tamilcanuck
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11 Jun 2007 23:12:28 GMT Report for Abuse
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I think lanka has a bigger probelme on her hands than just denying of VISA to servicemen.
UN, UK and a host of other countries who gave a tacit approval for the war in the east hoping the LTTE will be soundly routed are turning the tables on the very govt they supported.
MR will deliver allright!
More to come!
Edited By - tamilcanuck - 11 Jun 2007 23:13:34 GM |
DVLADV
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11 Jun 2007 23:17:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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| This is a good thing but that should be extended to politicians too. |
randy
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11 Jun 2007 23:39:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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| They should extend this to Tamils who pay for terrorism too. Specially terrorism that recruit UNDER AGE Tamil GIRLS. |
Damed
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11 Jun 2007 23:41:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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Denied visas to all GOSL officers.
HR violations will stop ?
do not denies visas to Tamils they are, a assert to EU.
Lots of wrong ones have left SL through foreign Embassy's.
Some Tamil officers in western Embassy's are sending LTTE
cells overseas.
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DVLADV
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11 Jun 2007 23:42:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Those girls were kidnapped by SLA and given to Karuna. After Pilliyan split these girls have come to their real master for protection and now GOSL is abusing them by manipulating them for the media. |
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11 Jun 2007 23:49:29 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Now do you realize Tamils can think independently and don't have to eat the punnakku that GOSL is feeding you guys. |
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11 Jun 2007 23:51:56 GMT Report for Abuse
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Yes, yes, why not deny the visas for true crooks like politicians so that there is less wastage of public money on foriegn trips for these time wasters and money spinners.
How many new projects can be implemented, if we curb these usless travels of ministers and and their families, boor lickers for free.
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