Document #1024102
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
For information on the situation of Jews,
please consult Responses to Information Requests KKT13405 of 3
March 1993, KKT16692.E of 3 March 1994, KKT20455.E of 28 April
1995, KKT21727.F of 7 September 1995, and KKT22320.F of 21 November
1995. For information on the situation of Russians, please consult
Responses to Information Requests KKT10448 of 18 March 1992,
KKT11301 of 24 August 1992, and KKT21233.F of 20 July 1995. For
information on Koreans and other minorities, please consult
Responses to Information Requests SUN10062 of 10 January 1992 and
KKT15409.FE of 30 September 1993. For information on the Tatars and
other minorities, please consult Responses to Information Requests
KKT22174.E of 6 November 1995 and KKT22883.E of 15 January
1996.
For additional information on the situation
of Cossacks and Russians, please consult the following attachments:
Rossiyskaya Gazeta of 2 June 1995 and 30 June 1995,
Kazakhstanskaya Pravda of 15 November 1995, Itar-Tass
of 1 December 1995, Rossiya of 19-25 April 1995, and
Interfax of 19 November 1995.
For information on the situation of ethnic
Poles, please consult the Polish Press Agency attachment of 13 May
1994. For information on the situation of ethnic Czechs, please
consult the Czechoslovak Press Agency attachment of 8 December
1994. For information on the situation of Chechens in 1992, please
consult the Human Rights Watch World Report 1993
attachment.
For additional information on the situation
of ethnic minorities in Kazakhstan, please consult page 939 of
Country Reports for 1993, and page 862 of Country Reports
for 1994, which are available at Regional Documentation
Centres.
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.
Attachments
Czechoslovak Press Agency [Prague, in
English]. 5 December 1994. "Ethnic Czechs in Kazakhstan Voice Fear
of Persecution." (BBC Summary 8 Dec. 1994/NEXIS)
Human Rights Watch (HRW). 1992. Human
Rights Watch World Report 1993. New York: Human Rights Watch,
p. 236.
Interfax [Moscow, in English]. 19
November 1995. "Relations with Former Soviet States; Duma Voices
Concern over Human Rights in Kazakhstan." (BBC Summary 19 Nov.
1995/NEXIS)
Itar-Tass World Service [Moscow,
in English]. 1 December 1995. "Relations with Former Soviet States;
Tyumen Cossacks Protest over Imprisonment of Kazakh Cossack
Leader." (BBC Summary 1 Dec. 1995/NEXIS)
Kazakhstanskaya Pravda [Almaty,
in Russian]. 15 November 1995. "Paper Deplores Maltreatment of
Cossacks." (FBIS-SOV-95-223 20 Nov. 1995, p. 66)
Polish Press Agency [Warsaw, in Polish].
13 May 1994. "Most Ethnic Poles in Kazakhstan Are Ready to Leave
for Poland." (BBC Summary 18 May 1994/NEXIS)
Rossiya [Moscow, in Russian].
19-25 April 1995. Anatoliy Vorontsov. "Oppression of Russians
Termed 'Genocide'." (FBIS-SOV-95-084 2 May 1995, pp. 36-38)
Rossiyskaya Gazeta [Moscow, in
Russian]. 30 June 1995. Lyudmila Masnaya. "'Domestic Nationalism'
Driving Russians Out." (FBIS-SOV-95-130 7 July 1995, pp. 54-55)
_____. 2 June 1995. "Duma Criticizes
'Persecution' of Russians in Kazakhstan." (FBIS-SOV-95-107 5 June
1995, p. 20)