09/19/2010
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Globe and Mail
Two pregnant women who arrived in Canada on the cargo ship MV Sun Sea will remain in detention for at least another week.
09/18/2010
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Globe and Mail
The Tamil migrants from the MV Sun Sea continue to be detained until their identities can be confirmed – something that will have to wait until Canadianimmigration authorities sift through a jumble of the migrants’ documents and belongings inside two U-Haul trucks.
09/13/2010
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Globe and Mail
The warnings from Canadians posted to the Colombo office came months before a suspected human-smuggling operation shipped more than 400 Tamils to British Columbia aboard a vessel known as the Sun Sea.
08/20/2010
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Globe and Mail
The barely seaworthy Sun Sea eluded authorities for months, and baffled officials warn more are likely to come to Canada
Whispers about a boat headed to Canada began long ago in Thailand’s small and closely knit Tamil community.
Among the regulars at the New Madras Café – a Tamil restaurant in the bustling commercial heart of Bangkok that serves roti, curry and lassis under photographs of the beaches of the Tamil heartland in northern Sri Lanka – there was frequent talk that the infamous Tamil Tigers, or at least some of their ex-operatives, were planning something: A money-raising operation that would also help the organization regroup after its devastating defeat ended Sri Lanka's three-decade civil war.
07/20/2010
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Globe and Mail
A man deported to Sri Lanka is in hiding after being interrogated, and possibly tortured, in Colombo – the result, his Toronto lawyer says, of an exaggerated news release from the Canadian government trumpeting his removal.