Survivors Of The Holocaust: Refugee Determination

Refugee Claims Dept: Under the International Refugee Convention, a genuine refugee should make his/ her claim at the nearest safe country. In the case of the Tamil migrants who arrived in B.C., that would be the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, an established democracy. Tamil Nadu is about the size of Greece and has been the home of the Tamil people since 500 BC, according to Montreal Gazette. To suggest that these Tamil migrants are like the Jews fleeing the Holocaust is an affront to victims and survivors of the Holocaust. The Tamils are not fleeing gas chambers and genocide, but the Sri Lankan government's successful suppression in May 2009 of the Tigers' brutal secessionist war that afflicted Sri Lanka since 1980 and the federal government's proposed legislation to curb the tide of human smuggling and bogus refugee claims is welcome, but it should be only the first step in overhauling Canada's severely dysfunctional refugee determination process. It is difficult to understand why these Tamil migrants would have chosen Canada at great expense when two hours from Sri Lanka, they could have sought protection in their ancestral home in India where the population shares the same culture, religion, and language but perhaps not politics, since there is no Tamil Tiger financial-support network in India as there is in Canada. As reported in the news.
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