{"id":118599,"date":"2021-09-26T15:32:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T22:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118599"},"modified":"2021-09-26T15:32:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T22:32:18","slug":"risks-of-granting-refugee-status-13-9-21-to-another-srilankan-under-surveiance-by-sri-lankan-security-personel-on-charges-of-links-to-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/26\/risks-of-granting-refugee-status-13-9-21-to-another-srilankan-under-surveiance-by-sri-lankan-security-personel-on-charges-of-links-to-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Risks Of Granting Refugee Status (13.9.21) To Another SriLankan Under Surveiance By Sri Lankan Security Personel On Charges Of ” Links To Terrorism”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM. Spokesperson, United Sri lanka Assn. Wellington NZ<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

To:Rt Hon Jacinda Arden,
Prime Minister of NZ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Prime Minister,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I write to you after much consideration , to record\nconcerns  about NZ\u2019s decision to\ngrant  refugee status over a week ago, to\na Sri Lankan couple, under surveillance of Sri Lankan security authorities, for\nhaving possible links to  Islamic\nterrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This concern comes on the back of a granting of refugee\nstatus under similar circumstances to the one who then went on to commit the\nheinous crimes in the Auckland Super Market on the 5th of September . This was\ndone, believing this man\u2019s claim that he was under  unfair surveillance exercised by the SL\nauthorities  for having links with Tamil\nTiger  Terrorism. However subsequent\nevents confirmed that this man\u2019s claims were not truthful and any blame of SL\nauthorities was unjustified. Subsequently when he was placed under surveillance\nof NZ Police. for Islamic radicalisation , it was found to be very difficult to\ndo so leading to the heinous crimes of 5th of September \u201921 referred to above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These only go, among others to highlight the challenges\nthe Sr Lankan authorities face to keep their people safe from  radicalisation by both of these groups and\nthe untruthful nature of both of these groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the reason for this letter is to highlight this\nto correct in NZ,  a commonly held\nmisbelief,  that the Sri Lankan\nauthorities unfairly treat those with alleged links to terrorism. In facts you\nmay know that , SL has been under the censure of the UNHCR in Geneva for a\nnumber of years , based on such allegations, which many of us know to be  baseless. These experiences is further\nevidence of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other reason for this letter to caution that the NZ\nauthorities should not let their guard down in the exercises of appropriate\nsurveillance of this couple for the appropriate length of time to spare NZ a\nrepeat tragedy and spare the Sri Lankan community in NZ   the ignominy of a similar experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you very much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yours Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM
Spokesperson,
United Sri lanka Assn.
Wellington NZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM. Spokesperson, United Sri lanka Assn. Wellington NZ To:Rt Hon Jacinda Arden,Prime Minister of NZ. Dear Prime Minister, I write to you after much consideration , to record concerns  about NZ\u2019s decision to grant  refugee status over a week ago, to a Sri Lankan couple, under surveillance of Sri Lankan security authorities, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}