03/29/2011
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news.nationalpost.com
"The blue steel door slides open and a guard leads a line of detainee children out of Bangkok’s immigration prison, past visitors waiting with bags of rose apples, and across a tight alley to a classroom.
Many of the children are Sri Lankans.
They travelled to Thailand with parents who paid smugglers for a spot on a migrant ship to Canada. But they never made it to sea. Instead, they were arrested and locked up inside the immigration detention centre."
11/23/2010
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Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER — Canada's acceptance of refugee claims from Sri Lanka plummeted in September, the month following the arrival of a boatload of 492 Tamil migrants, new immigration data show.
08/16/2010
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The Australian
ASYLUM-SEEKERS travelling to Australia have been identified by Sri Lanka as members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam.
07/02/2010
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International Organization for Migration
Sri Lanka - The Netherlands has pledged EUR 2 million (LKR 277,820,000) to support two IOM programmes that are helping internally displaced people (IDPs) to return home and reintegrating former LTTE Tamil Tiger combatants into civil society.