The 492 Tamilrefugees arrived by boat and a clamour over bogus claimants flocking to Canada because it's so easy to get in arose once again. How about a few facts? The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says there is no upsurge in asylum seekers trying to...
They were jailed in Indonesia, stranded in Romania and rescued by Australia off the coast of Sumatra, all in the last eight months. So it was a big relief to Nisanth Segaranantham and his friends when they landed in Oakland last month. The 27-year-old Sri Lankan refugee...
NEW DELHI -- Tens of thousands of Tamil civilians died in the last, bloody months of Sri Lanka's civil war, the International Crisis Group said in an investigative report to be released today, most of them as a result of government shelling of areas that were supposed...
Demand for asylum to stranded Tamils March 13: Tamilar Desiya Iyakkam president P. Nedumaran has urged the central government to see that all the 257 Sri Lankan Tamils who were now stranded in the mid sea of Java near Indonesia get asylum at Australia....
As a growing number of Tamils take to rickety boats and risk death to flee Sri Lanka, international observers have raised concerns about the lack of international concern shown for these people and the factors that drive them out of the country. The international...