Human rights watchdog Suaram today claimed that the Malaysian government had deported three Sri Lankan refugees secretly to their homeland without adhering to the proper legal channels. “Yesterday the government secretly deported the three Sri Lankan refugees to Sri Lanka,” said Suaram’s spokesperson R Thevarajan at a press conference today. Thevarajan said the three refugees – Kirubaharan, Kirubanathan and Gushanthan – were not given the avenue to appeal but were indeed subjected to forced deportation which could put them at risk in the hands of the Sri Lankan government. “The government is violating the non-refoulement principle of the international customary law by sending the refugees back to their persecutor, Sri Lanka,” he said. “The government is putting all three refugees at great risk in the hands of the Sri Lanka government,” he added.
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 05:35:00 +0000
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