Visa information used to intimidate Tamils

| by our  correspondent in Toronto

( July 28, 2012, Toronto, Sri Lanka Guardian) A source of a victim (name withheld) told the Sri Lanka Guardian of a scandal involving a government backed agent of Sri Lankan origin who had sent a threatening letter having got access to his confidential visa application to visit Sri Lanka.

The said victim is a Sri Lankan Tamil migrated to Canada many years ago, before the Tamil influx started after the 1983 anti-Tamil riots. The victim is not involved in any Tamil politics in public or privately.

With the ending of the war, the said Canadian passport holding Sri Lankan Tamil wanted go to Sri Lanka on a holiday recently and having bought his air ticket applied for visa on-line paying the appropriate visa fees. The system also granted him the visa.

He was stunned when he received a letter from an agent of Sri Lanka, implicating him of involving in the anti-Sri Lanka campaign in Canada and gone to the extent of saying that dire consequence will have to be faced if he visits Sri Lanka.

The victims source said that the agent is based in Australia and is none other than the son of pro-Tamil and anti-government campaigner Dr Brian Seneviratne.

Since receiving the threatening letter, the victim abandoned his intended visit. The victim is said to have no knowledge of the agent and in fear is said to have given up the hope of visiting Sri Lanka forever.