What is the role of Liam Fox over Sri Lanka?

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"They were granted asylum in the UK because there was a war going on in Sri Lanka, that war is over they can go back. My sister just went there for a holiday for God's sake, it's as safe as can be."

People were going on holiday in Sri Lanka even while the war was on.

Do you really think Tamils are safe on that island just because the ultra-nationalist government wiped out nearly 40,000 of them but said it did it in order to rescue them?

Do you think a government capable of that kind of atrocity will be concerned with their safety now or in the future?

If Tamils in this country do not feel safe going back to the island, then that is enough to keep them here, in safety.

Nobody can say with any degree of safety, what fate the Sri Lankan government will yet meet as a result of the crimes it has perpetrated.

40.000 Tamils massacred, 160.000 still unaccounted for, 20.000 still held in prison camps in inhumane conditions... wish I could send these racists Daily Mail readers in one of these prison camps for a holiday- and leave them there. Racists fuck off.

What utter tosh from the posters above. The vast majority of the Tamil people wanted bugger all to do with the Tigers or their wishes for independence from the Sinhalese community. When the war ended nobody was more happy than the Tamil people who had endured years of repression from the Tigers Tamil Hindu Nationalists and their Right Wing views of Sri Lankan society.

My sister traveled throughout the country and saw many examples of the extensive investment that is being made in Tamil areas by the central government to repair the damage done by the Tigers.

Tamils wishing to stay in the UK are economic migrants not refugees fleeing oppression. If we use as a starting point people saying they feel they might be oppressed as a reason for granting leave to stay then we will have half the bloody world wanting to live here. I realise for a few idealistic types that sounds lovely but for people with a brain cell that's not a good idea.

"Tamils wishing to stay in the UK are economic migrants not refugees fleeing oppression. If we use as a starting point people saying they feel they might be oppressed as a reason for granting leave to stay then we will have half the bloody world wanting to live here. I realise for a few idealistic types that sounds lovely but for people with a brain cell that's not a good idea."

Those people don't want to stay here because they are economic migrants. Thats just a 'dolly' for the anti-immigration brigade. For the anti-immigration brigade, everybody that isn't white is an immigrant.

They want to stay here because they don't want to be returned to a state that has compelling recent history of persecution of the Tamils. And for good reason too.

This has been well documented with fact. Despite these facts, the Sinhala government are still inclined to face-spitting rather than to accept those facts.

The Sri Lankan government have committed these crimes, are denying those crimes in the face of overwhelming evidence, and in this environment it is still not safe for Tamils to be forcibly returned.

I'm sorry you think reason is the exclusive domain of those with a brain cell...I have two and disagree.