"I tried to die. That was better for me. But then I found that I was being revived so that I can be killed by torture in Sri Lanka. I don't feel any animosity towards anyone but I cannot understand why the British authorities saved my life only to send me back to where I would be killed."
- Nagendrarajah Suthakaran, an asylum seeker who attempted suicide to avoid being deported to Sri Lanka by Britain.
His temporary reprieve came literally at the very last minute – he was taken off the flight for Colombo before it left. See his interview with Channel 4 here.
Another 42, however, were not given reprieves, despite calls by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and British MPs.
One of them has scars from torture in Sri Lankan custody – where he was visited three times by the ICRC.
See Channel 4’s report here.
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