{"id":102448,"date":"2022-10-23T12:09:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T12:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=102448"},"modified":"2022-10-23T12:09:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T12:09:02","slug":"diego-garcia-controversy-uk-quietly-sends-back-some-lankan-asylum-seekers-voluntarily-as-australia-issues-dire-warning-by-shamindra-ferdinando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/diego-garcia-controversy-uk-quietly-sends-back-some-lankan-asylum-seekers-voluntarily-as-australia-issues-dire-warning-by-shamindra-ferdinando\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Garcia controversy: UK quietly sends back some Lankan asylum seekers \u201cvoluntarily\u201d as Australia issues dire warning &#8211;  By Shamindra Ferdinando"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Diego Garcia controversy: UK quietly sends back some Lankan asylum seekers \u201cvoluntarily\u201d as Australia issues dire warning &#8211;<span style=\"color: #666699;\"> By Shamindra Ferdinando<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102449\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/global-tamil-forum-e1666526527807.png\" alt=\"Diego Garcia controversy: UK quietly sends back some Lankan asylum seekers \u201cvoluntarily\u201d as Australia issues dire warning - By Shamindra Ferdinando\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Source :\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/island.lk\/diego-garcia-controversy-uk-quietly-sends-back-some-lankan-asylum-seekers-voluntarily-as-australia-issues-dire-warning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">island<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Global Tamil Forum skirts the issue\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) wouldn\u2019t get involved in the ongoing controversy over the UK decision to move Sri Lankans, seeking to settle in the UK, to what the government called \u2018a safe third country,\u2019 unless they returned to Sri Lanka \u2018voluntarily\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">About 120 Sri Lankans are believed to be housed in a fenced encampment in the US-British held Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos Islands which the United Nations ruled belonged to Mauritius and should be handed back by Dec. 2019.The UK calls the Indian Ocean archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).Those who represent the interests of the Sri Lankan group, want the UK to allow them to settle in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Island\u00a0sought the GTF\u2019s response to the hotly disputed British move and also asked whether the issue at hand would be raised at the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The GTF spokesperson, Suren Surendiran, has sent us the following response: \u201cThe GTF, as an organization that functions internationally and not specifically in a specific country as such, doesn\u2019t usually get involved in country specific matters, outside of Sri Lanka. The GTF is predominantly an international advocacy organization. There are various country specific Tamil organizations. There are also Tamil institutions\/organizations, including legal firms, acting and lobbying on immigration policies in the UK and in various other countries.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Maritime Law Tribunal of the United Nations, the United Nations General Assembly and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Chagos Islands belonged to Mauritius.The Guardian online edition, on Oct. 18, quoted Zehrah Hasan, an advocacy director for the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, as having said: \u201cThe British government has denied Tamil refugees\u2019 basic rights in the Chagos Islands, for over a year now. In a callous move, it looks like they may expel these same refugees to a third country, similar to the Rwanda plan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Hassen was referring to the UK agreement with Rwanda to accommodate those denied UK refugee status.Hassan was further quoted as having told The Guardian: \u201cThose who\u2019ve fled persecution must have their voices heard and their right to protection, in the UK, recognized.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Amidst the ongoing controversy, some of those who had been \u2018held\u2019 in the disputed UK territory had chosen to return \u201cvoluntarily\u201d to Sri Lanka in the recent past. UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Minister, Jesse Norman, recently told Parliament so far over 60 Sri Lankans voluntarily returned home.Meanwhile, Australia has reiterated that illegal Sri Lankan immigrants wouldn\u2019t be tolerated, under any circumstances. In separate statements, Home Affairs Minister Clare O\u2019Neil, Australian Border Force Commissioner, Michael Outram, and Operation Sovereign Borders (OSB) Joint Agency Task Force (JATF) Commander Rear Admiral Justin Jones, have issued dire warnings that those who violated their laws would be dealt with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Flanked by Commissioner Outram and Rear Admiral Jones, Minister O\u2019Neil declared that Australian border protection polices haven\u2019t changed. If you attempt to reach Australia by boat, you will be intercepted and turned around and you\u2019ll end up back in Sri Lanka far worse off than when you embarked. The only way to get to Australia, legally, is with a valid visa. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Rear Admiral Jones said that they would detect, intercept and return anyone who takes an illegal boat journey to Australia. The top official has warned that not a single boat managed to reach Australia. Australia released footage of a youth carrying a pair of slippers disembarking from an Australian vessel that had brought back a group of people, several months ago, while warning such endeavors wouldn\u2019t be tolerated at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">A couple of weeks before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned, Minister O\u2019Neil met the President and the then Foreign Minister Prof. G.L.Peiris to reiterate their insistence on OSB. In return for Sri Lanka\u2019s cooperation, Australia has enhanced support for cash-strapped Sri Lanka and granted free fuel to its Navy and Air Force to sustain operations meant to discourage human smuggling.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diego Garcia controversy: UK quietly sends back some Lankan asylum seekers \u201cvoluntarily\u201d as Australia issues dire warning &#8211; By Shamindra Ferdinando Source :\u00a0island Global Tamil Forum skirts the issue\u00a0 The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) wouldn\u2019t get involved in the ongoing controversy over the UK decision to move Sri Lankans, seeking to settle in the UK, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2075,48758,48757,48759,48756,6909,48755],"class_list":{"0":"post-102448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-sri-lankans","9":"tag-british-indian-ocean-territory","10":"tag-diego-garcia","11":"tag-global-tamil-forum","12":"tag-global-tamil-forum-skirts","13":"tag-indian-ocean","14":"tag-voluntarily","15":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Diego Garcia controversy: UK quietly sends back some Lankan asylum seekers \u201cvoluntarily\u201d as Australia issues dire warning - By Shamindra Ferdinando - eLanka<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) wouldn\u2019t get involved in the ongoing controversy over the UK decision to move Sri Lankans, seeking to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Diego Garcia controversy: UK quietly sends back some Lankan asylum seekers \u201cvoluntarily\u201d as Australia issues dire warning - By Shamindra Ferdinando\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) wouldn\u2019t get involved in the ongoing controversy over the UK decision to move Sri Lankans, seeking to\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/diego-garcia-controversy-uk-quietly-sends-back-some-lankan-asylum-seekers-voluntarily-as-australia-issues-dire-warning-by-shamindra-ferdinando\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"eLanka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-23T12:09:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/global-tamil-forum-e1666526527807.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/diego-garcia-controversy-uk-quietly-sends-back-some-lankan-asylum-seekers-voluntarily-as-australia-issues-dire-warning-by-shamindra-ferdinando\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/diego-garcia-controversy-uk-quietly-sends-back-some-lankan-asylum-seekers-voluntarily-as-australia-issues-dire-warning-by-shamindra-ferdinando\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"eLanka admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd\"},\"headline\":\"Diego Garcia controversy: UK quietly sends back some Lankan asylum seekers \u201cvoluntarily\u201d as Australia issues dire warning &#8211; 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