Saturday, April 18, 2009

SRI LANKA DEPORTS BRITISH STINKER

"...Jeremy Page, reporter for the British paper The Times was escorted to the detention room on arrival at the Katunayake International Airport last week, locked up for the night, and deported to the UK the next day, says Page in an article in Timesonline.

He was denied a journalist's visa for Sri Lanka since August despite multiple applications, and he was identified and deported when he tried to enter Sri Lanka on a tourist visa. "I know why I'm blacklisted: the Government [of Sri Lanka] thinks, or pretends to think, that I support the Tigers... " So says the Tamil tiger website the Tamilnut.

"Mr. Page somehow doesn't seem to get it. We in Sri Lanka don't think much of his writing skills. Deporting him had nothing to do with it either. It was just that we didn't like his ugly face, or his horrible smell"...says a Sri Lankan Immigration Official.