{"id":120469,"date":"2014-02-24T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T08:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=120469"},"modified":"2014-03-04T18:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:00:33","slug":"former-sri-lankan-military-officer-dinesh-perera-should-be-removed-from-australian-detention-centre-rights-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/former-sri-lankan-military-officer-dinesh-perera-should-be-removed-from-australian-detention-centre-rights-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Sri Lankan Military Officer Dinesh Perera Should Be Removed From Australian Detention Centre &#8211; Rights Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights and asylum seeker advocates are condemning a decision to employ a former Sri Lankan military officer as the acting manager of the Manus Island detention camp, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-02-24\/former-sri-lanka-military-officer-acting-manager-of-manus\/5280412\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Australian Broadcasting Corporation<\/span><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_104191\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Emily-Howie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104191\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104191\" alt=\"Emily Howie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Emily-Howie.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-104191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Howie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The ABC has confirmed that Dinesh Perera has been running the facility for the G4S security company.<\/p>\n<p>The director of advocacy and research at the Human Rights Law centre, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Emily+Howie&amp;x=5&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Emily Howie<\/span><\/a>, says Mr Perera should be removed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s completely inappropriate for anyone with links to the Sri Lankan military to be in charge of the welfare and well-being of vulnerable asylum seekers, including Tamils,&#8221; Ms Howie said.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-02-24\/former-sri-lanka-military-officer-acting-manager-of-manus\/5280412\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":104191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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