Dokument #1160489
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
As per our telephone conversation, in
addition to the sources already available through your regional
Documentation Centre please find attached copies of maps and other
recently-published documents on Belize. Information on the
disappearance of Salvadoreans in Belize in or around August 1989
could not be found among the various sources on Central America
currently available to the IRBDC. The Country Reports on Human
Rights Practices for 1989 (Washington: U.S. Department of
State, 1990) and its previous issues, and Belize: A country
guide (page 14), state that there have been no reports of
politically motivated killings or disappearance in Belize.
Regarding the situation of Salvadorean
refugees in Belize, the attached reports provide figures and other
information for late-1989. The Legal Officer of the UNHCR in Ottawa
stated in a telephone communication with the IRBDC on 24 August
1990 that people from Central American countries continue to enter
Belize, of which approximately one third are from Guatemala. The
UNHCR Officer had just received information that a few individual
cases of Salvadoreans in Belize desiring to return to El Salvador,
upon their request and on a case by case basis, were being assisted
by the UNHCR to repatriate.
The attached documents include:
-World Refugee Survey - 1989 in Review (Washington, D.C.:
American Council for Nationalities Service, 1990), p. 69;
-World Refugee Report (Washington, D.C.: Bureau for Refugee
Programs/U.S. Department of State, September 1989), pp. 65-66;
-Belize: A Country Guide (New Mexico: Inter-Hemispheric
Education Resource Center, 1989), pp. 1-11; 47-49;
-from Refugees (Geneva, UNHCR): "The Promised Land?",
November 1989, pp. 13-16; "Said Musa: Minister of Foreign Affairs
and Economic Development" (Interview), June 1990, pp. 40-41;
-Map published in Central America Report (Guatemala,
Infopress Centroamericana) of 16 June 1989, indicating distribution
of refugees in Central America, based on a previously published
UNHCR map;
-Sections of a map supplement from National Geographic
("Land of the Maya: A Traveller's Map"), October 1989.