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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shaaaaa" data-source="post: 704850" data-attributes="member: 42114">A Sri Lankan Tamil immigrant has launched a hunger strike against a deportation order by British authorities.Subramaniyam Alosius Jude Christie, 44, has launched his protest on 09 July in Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, in Middlesex, against his removal from the United Kingdom.A resident of northern Sri Lankan town of Jaffna, Subramanium says his life is in danger if the UK authorities send him back to Sri Lanka under current circumstances.Detained in Boossa"In Sri Lanka, peace talks have collapsed. Every Tamil is regarded as Tamil Tiger," he told BBC Sandeshaya.He was arrested and sent to infamous Boossa detention camp, he says, where he was tortured by security force personnel.Subramaniyam says he managed to escape from the camp after paying a ransom to the camp officials.His application for asylum in UK was rejected twice by the authorities and he was given the air ticket to fly back to Sri Lanka, Subramaniyam told bbcsinhala.com.Nearly 4000 killed and more than 200,000 displaced as violence escalated in the north and east since August 2006.Some Internally Displaced People (IDPs) have fled to neighboring Tamil Nadu.Tamil ministers in the Mahinda Rajapaksa government have accused security forces of detaining Tamils in Boosa camp without charging them.- BBC Sinhala.com</blockquote>

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