CAT/C/51/D/387/2009 Revenge Committee confirmed in a letter dated 20 August 2005 that he had been subjected to severe political revenge and injustice. In the meantime, the complainant decided to leave Sri Lanka, as he was unable to find a job and people were looking for him. On 25 January 2005, he unsuccessfully tried to enter Japan and had to return to his home in Gokarella, where he started organizing activities for the UNP in preparation for the November 2005 presidential elections. One Sunday in July 2005, he was going to buy food at the market when Mr. L.A. drove up and asked him, in Sinhala, to get into the van. The complainant was confused and scared, and considered that it would be more dangerous to refuse to get into the van. On the way to Gokarella market, Mr. L.A. questioned him about his political activities and, at gunpoint, told him that he should stop working with the UNP, then he pushed him out of the van. 2.9 Since the JVP knew that he was back in Gokarella, the complainant and his wife started to fear for their lives. For a short period, they stayed at a friend’s house in Trincomalee, but had to come back to Gokarella because the police started to get suspicious about the reasons for their presence in the LTTE conflict zone. The complainant then tried to obtain a visa to leave Sri Lanka through the same person (an LTTE member) who had earlier arranged his visa to Japan. The day the complainant went to this person’s jewellery shop to pay him for his assistance with the visa, the shop was inspected by the police. The complainant was taken by this person’s companion through a tunnel to a room full of weapons belonging to the LTTE. When the complainant realized that he would be accused by the Government of giving money to the LTTE, he asked to be let go. Instead, he was tied to a chair and gagged by the two men (allegedly LTTE members) present in the room. He fainted when they put a knife to his throat and cut it. 2.10 He was kept in the tunnel room for approximately seven hours, then in the jewellery shop for about three weeks before he was told, on 18 or 19 September 2005, that his visa was ready. His captives arranged for him to travel to Melbourne, Australia, with another man. He arrived in Australia on 22 September 2005. Since he did not know anyone in Melbourne, he stayed with a group of Tamils. On 4 November 2005, he filed an application for a protection (class XA) visa with the Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs under the 1958 Migration Act. 2.11 The first time that the complainant met with an immigration officer for his protection visa, he did not tell him about the way in which he had obtained the visa to enter Australia, out of fear of being sent back to Sri Lanka. Some time later, the complainant was asked by the immigration officer about the people with whom he was staying in Melbourne. As he was still staying with LTTE supporters, who could have read his correspondence with the Australian authorities regarding the protection visa, the complainant did not tell the immigration officer about the treatment he had been subjected to in Sri Lanka by LTTE members. 2.12 Some months after Australian authorities learned about how he had obtained his visa in Colombo, his wife’s house in Gokarella was broken into by Tamils who destroyed some of the belongings and left a note threatening to kill everyone in his family. The complainant’s wife moved to Trincomalee and he has not heard from her since. On 9 February 2009, his mother’s house was broken into by Mr. L.A. and officials from the Yatawaththa Divisional Council and the Matale Development Council. The complainant’s mother was injured and reported to Matale hospital police station on 10 March 2009.1 1 4 The complainant relies on written testimony from his mother, extracted from the information book at Matale hospital police station.