Dokument #1023545
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
1) No information is available to the IRBDC
regarding a "Black List".
2) The attached excerpt from Africa
Contemporary Record, notes that the Police Mobile Unit is the
only armed unit of the police force. Its chief superintendent is a
strong supporter of the current regime. No further information is
available to the IRBDC regarding the Mobile Unit.
3) No mention is made, in sources consulted
by the IRBDC, about threats against members of the London-based
Seychelles National Movement. However, in November 1985, Gerard
Horeau, former leader of the Mouvement pour la Résistance,
was assassinated in London.
4) No information further to that provided
in the DOS report is available to the IRBDC at this time, regarding
the nature of direct and anonymous threats being made against
Seychellois citizens.
5) For information on conditions within the
National Youth Service, please see the attached section from Marcus
Franda's book The Seychelles.
ATTACHMENTS
Franda, Marcus. The Seychelles.
Boulder, Col: Westview Press, 1982. 92-97.
Africa South of the Sahara.
London: Europa Publications, 1989. 872-873.
Legum, Colin, ed. Africa Contemporary
Record. New York: Africana Publishing Co., 1987. B397-B407.
Degenhardt, Henry, ed. Revolutionary
and Dissident Movements. Essex: Longmans UK Ltd. 319-320.