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."
10/30/2010
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Lanka Business Online
BANGKOK, October 30, 2010 (AFP) - Thai authorities have arrested 61 Tamil migrants from Sri Lanka, police said Saturday, in the second such crackdown in recent weeks.
10/11/2010
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The Globe and Mail
Covert operation part of strategy to pre-empt arrival of smuggling ship, expert says
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.
07/26/2010
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Toronto Star
VANCOUVER—A cargo ship allegedly carrying more than 200 Tamil refugees is being monitored by U.S. and Canadian officials as it makes its way to the British Columbia coastline after being turned away by Thai and Australian authorities.