Dokument #1147725
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
For information on the above-mentioned
subject, please refer to the attached extract from Appendix 1 to a
transcript of Professor Bruce Matthews's 19 January 1995
presentation on Sri Lanka to the Immigration and Refugee Board
(IRB) in Toronto.
Please note that, since August 1994, the
government has partially lifted the economic blockade to the north
by removing 28 items from a list of 42 prohibited items for
transport to the northern areas under the control of the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) (AFP 31 Aug. 1994; INFORM Sept. 1994,
6; Tamil Information Aug. 1994, 5). The transport of items
such as medicines, food, kerosene oil is now possible to the North
(AFP 31 Aug. 1994; INFORM Sept. 1994, 6). For further information
on the ban and on its partial removal in August 1994, please refer
to the attachments.
This response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
Agence France Presse (AFP) [Hong Kong,
in English]. 31 August 1994. "Prime Minister Discusses Partial Lift
of Embargo." (FBIS-NES-94-169 31 Aug. 1994, pp. 58-59)
Sri Lanka Information Monitor (INFORM).
September 1994. Situation Report. Colombo: INFORM.
Tamil Information [London].
August 1994. No. 37. "Removal of Ban."
Agence France Presse (AFP) [Hong Kong,
in English]. 31 August 1994. "Prime Minister Discusses Partial Lift
of Embargo." (FBIS-NES-94-169 31 Aug. 1994, pp. 58-59)
BBC Summary of World Broadcasts. 8
February 1994. "Tiger Leader under `Tremendous Pressure' from
Jaffna Public to Lay Down Arms." (NEXIS)
Human Rights in Developing Countries
Yearbook 1994. 1994. Edited by Peter Baehr et al. Deventer:
Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, pp. 381-82.
Matthews, Bruce. 19 January 1995. "Sri
Lanka, the Civil war and the Crisis of Immigration". Appendix 1 of
an address to the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) in Toronto,
p. 1.
Sri Lanka Information Monitor (INFORM).
September 1994. Situation Report. Colombo: INFORM, p. 6.
The Sri Lanka Monitor [London].
March 1994. No. 74. "Payday at Puliyankulam," p. 2.
Tamil Information [London].
August 1994. No. 37. "Removal of Ban," p. 5.
Virakesari [Colombo, in Tamil].
22 July 1994. "Editorial Decries Difficult Conditions in North."
(FBIS-NES-94-149 3 Aug. 1994, p. 75)