Officials attached to the NIB are said to be operating as immigration officials and are claimed grassing the travellers. The victims are mainly Tamils.
According to information revealed by three victims who had expressed political opinion against the Mahinda Rajapakse’s government overseas were interviewed by the NIB officials.
The NIB immigration officer will scan through the papers and also spend some time to read through the computer alerts and will ask the traveller to take a seat in the lobby.
Few minutes later, two officials will appear and without introducing their true identity, will ask questions about the traveller’s involvement in politics. All three victims were questioned about their anti-government stance.
The victims who did not want them to be identified by their names said the officers interventions were threatening and very worrying.
One said: ‘We know that these officials were looking for the LTTE sympathisers before the LTTE was defeated. But now they are head hunting the anti-government persons’.
Another said: ‘I was asked to explain my stance against the government. I told them to piss off and allow me to call the ambassador of the country I am a citizen. They said, no worries, you don’t have to go to that extent’.
The third person said: ‘It was a fearful experience as you felt that they are going to take me in a white van’.
It must be recalled even leading Sinhala NGO leader Jehan Perera was taken to a side in the airport and investigated by the NIB when he returned from London a year ago.
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