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The Sri Lankan authorities took the man and woman to jail and the children had to go to live with relatives. This is an example of what is happening, and now the Coalition is going to make it worse for these people, if thats possible given the Labor Government inhumane policies. Another example of a family that could suffer under the Coalition policy is a widowed grandmother in her late forties, her three daughters and her nine-year-old grandson. From Trincomalee in eastern Sri Lanka, they arrived by boat at Christmas Island in May. *Durga, the grandmother, said her husband, who belonged to the Tamil Tigers, was taken away in a white van in 1997 and has not been seen since. She said she was targeted by authorities for organising remembrance events for Tamil Tiger war dead. Last year around October, the army took two of my daughters into custody for 24 hours and sexually assaulted them. When they came another time I told my daughters to hide. They took me instead. They slapped me and beat me but they didnt do any sexual torture. They just talked sexually to me, she said, through an interpreter. Im very scared for my daughters lives if they are sent back to Sri Lanka. I have seen many people being sent back whose lives are at risk. *Name changed to protect identity. For further information contact Tamil Refugee Council: 0400 597 351.