02/20/2011
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Monsters and Critics
Colombo - Seventeen people attempting to illegally make their way to Australia by boat have been arrested off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, officials said Sunday.
10/25/2010
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Lanka Business Online
Oct 25, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lanka has received 20 bids from vendors in nine countries for a satellite-based vessel monitoring system tender which will be awarded before the end of the year, fisheries minister Rajitha Senaratne said.
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.
09/13/2010
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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.
08/29/2010
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Xinhua
COLOMBO, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- At last, these Sri Lankan Tamils reached the alien soil ending their harrowing sea journey through the Pacific.
08/17/2010
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Channel News Asia
VANCOUVER, Canada : Canadian authorities are investigating whether Sri Lankan rebels financed the passage of some 500 Tamil refugees to Canada last week, officials said before the start of detention hearings.
08/16/2010
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The Globe and Mail
Pact would help stop shiploads of Tamils from heading for Canada, high commissioner says
08/15/2010
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The Province
Members of the Tamil community are meeting in Burnaby on Sunday to discuss the plight of 450 illegal migrants who arrived in Canada on Friday.
08/14/2010
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Vancouver Sun
From the Komagata Maru carrying 376 Punjabi passengers and the SS St. Louis travelling with 900 Jewish asylum seekers, to the boats with 600 people from China's Fujian province and the Ocean Lady that docked in B.C. last year with Tamil refugees - there is something about boatloads of migrants that triggers a national hysteria. Perhaps it is the realization that the expanse of ocean is not enough to enforce the divide between the West and the so-called Third World.