I feel for them if they were being sent back to Stinky India, but Sri Lanka looks pretty nice.
you probably don't look like an idiot either ... but looks can be deceiving
Amnesty International reports that Sri Lanka has one of the world's highest numbers of enforced disappearances, with between 60,000 and 100,000 since the 1980s.
The UN, EU, US and human rights groups continue to express concern over the situation facing Tamils and other minorities in Sri Lanka.
The 47-member UN Human Rights Council in March this year boosted the resources and powers of the UN human rights chief to investigate war crimes and other human rights abuses in Sri Lanka.
The EU's representative specifically highlighted "increased marginalisation" of Tamils and Muslims, which it said had been "exacerbated" by Sri Lanka's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The government response [to coronavirus] was led by the military and the lockdown was enforced more severely in Tamil-majority areas," Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch, told the ABC.
Just last week, a European Parliament resolution expressed "deep concern over Sri Lanka's alarming path towards the recurrence of grave human rights violations".
The European Parliament "deplores the continuing discrimination against and violence towards religious and ethnic minorities and communities in Sri Lanka, including Muslims, Hindus, Tamils and Christians", it continued.
Observers say the risks for returned Tamil asylum seekers are heightened.
"Tamils who have recently returned to Jaffna after fleeing have experienced abductions, sexual and physical violence, and state-sanctioned torture," Dr Ratnam said.
A 2020 report by the US State Department cited, "long-standing, systematic discrimination in university education, government employment, housing, health services, language laws, and procedures," against Tamils."Tamils reported security forces regularly monitored and harassed members of their community," it said.