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Three Sri Lankan asylum seekers’ deportations deferred
[Channel 4] Three of the 40 failed Sri Lankan asylum-seekers, scheduled to be forcibly removed from Gatwick to Colombo tomorrow, have had their deportations deferred. [Full Story]
Read MorePrime Minister Cameron questioned in parliament on C4 Sri Lankan film
[Channel 4] Prime Minister David Cameron today commented on Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields telling MPs that the Sri Lanka government, “does need to be investigated” and, “lessons need to be learned.” Jon Snow’s critically-acclaimed investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers, featured…
Read MoreLast Night’s TV – Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, Channel 4; Luther, BBC1
[Independent UK] This film contains very disturbing images,” warned Jon Snow at the beginning of Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields. It would, he continued, depict “death, injury, execution and evidence of sexual abuse and murder”. He was right too, though when the final credits rolled you couldn’t help but feel that the worst lay somewhere off screen,…
Read MoreUK presses Sri Lanka over Channel 4’s ‘war crimes’ film
[BBC] The UK Foreign Office has pressed Sri Lanka to investigate alleged atrocities during its civil war after “horrific” footage aired in a TV programme. [Full Story]
Read MoreUK Sri Lanka Tamils fear forced deportation
[BBC] About 20 Tamil asylum seekers facing the prospect of being deported from Britain to Sri Lanka have told the BBC that their lives are in danger. [Full Story]
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