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Activists seek closure of ‘illegal detention camp’
Cases against Sri Lankan refugees were lodged after May 2009.
Updated : Jun 30, 2012, 11:04 AM IST
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Non-government organisations (NGOs) and human rights groups on Friday demanded the shutting down of a detention camp at Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu where 28 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees have been lodged.
Members of the Tamil Solidarity Campaign, May 17th Movement, PUCL - Karnataka, SICHREM, Visual Search, Pedestrian Pictures, LESBiT, New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India) and the progressive sections of Karnataka on Friday said that the Tamil Nadu Q branch police are running an illegal detention camp at Chengalpattu where 28 refugees are lodged.
They alleged that some of these refugees in the Chengalpattu camp came to India seeking asylum 20 years ago and that cases have been registered against them for the same reason after May 2009.
The Chengalpattu refugee camp is neither functioning as a prison run in accordance with human rights laws nor as a refugee camp where rights are guaranteed. Rather, it is clear that it is functioning as an illegal detention camp. These refugees are neither treated by the International Refugee Law nor by the Indian Penal Code, the activists said.
The sole intention of this seems to be paint a picture that these men who fled their land in fear for their lives, as members of the LTTE, and thereby claim that the organisation is still operating even as the Sri Lankan government has formally announced that the LTTE has been totally wiped out, the statement added.
The members of the above organisations said that currently 13 out of the 28 refugees are on hunger strike from June 15, demanding their immediate transfer to the open camps and that four of the protesters are in a very critical condition.
