Refugee Claimants: Federal Court Decisions

Lengthy Civil War Dept: The allegations were disclosed in two Federal Court decisions released on Wednesday. In both cases, the court ordered the men to remain in custody, although the Immigration and Refugee Board had earlier approved their release. Neither is identified by name. The court refers to them only as B157 and B236 and says they are among the 492 refugee claimants found aboard the Sun Sea. But in both cases, the court said Ottawa has labelled them Tamil Tigers, according to Calgary Herald. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, was a separatist Sri Lankan rebel group that fought a lengthy civil war until its defeat in May 2009. It remains a listed terrorist organization under Canadian law and two more of the Sri Lankans who arrived in Canada last August aboard the smuggling ship MV Sun Sea have been identified by federal investigators as suspected members of the Tamil Tigers rebels. After the Sun Sea was seized off Vancouver Island five months ago, the government claimed Tamil Tigers were on board and that the rebel network was involved in organizing the ship's voyage from Thailand. As reported in the news.
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