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31 Tamil asylums seekers forcefully deported from Germany

In utter disregard to Human Rights and right to life and safety, Germany forcefully deported 31 Tamil asylum seekers back to Sri Lanka late on Wednesday (30th March) from Dusseldorf.

Spanish Airline -Wamos Air Flight PLM/ EB 308 left Dusseldorf at 09:16 PM local time scheduled to arrive in Colombo today (31 March) 10:21 AM -JDS tweeted (JDSLanka)

In a last-minute reprieve four were released at the Dusseldorf airport and they returned home by train.

Earlier people of all nations gathered at the Dusseldorf airport to express their solidarity with the Tamils and protest against forceful deportations putting their lives at danger.

Protestors were seen chanting ‘No human is illegal, abolish the deportations’ and ‘seeking refuge is not a crime’.

The fate of other Tamils detained at Frankfurt and Stuttgart is not known. Over 100 people were rounded up by Germany in the last few days and detained to be forcefully deported.

The action against Tamils and several Muslims comes a week after Germany endorsed a UN resolution for further investigation human rights violation in Sri Lanka.

Germany’s stand exposes the ‘duplicity of the Western nations’ human rights organisations and activists have warned.

In January this year Germany passed a controversial migration law which brought major changes to the country’s asylum and immigration policy. Part of the law included what is called as “Orderly Return Law”- which facilitates the deportation of failed asylum seekers.

Article 1 of the German Constitution under ‘Basic Rights’ clearly defines the following:

1.Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.

2.The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every community, of peace and justice in the world.

Tamil lawmakers and civil society organisations from Sri Lanka had passionately requested the German Government not to deport the Tamils and put their lives in danger.

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