Document #1110225
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
For information on the Aizsargi, please
consult Response to Information Request LVA18994.E of 22 December
1994. Information on the legal status of the Aizsargi and the
government's response to its activities could not be found among
the sources consulted by the DIRB.
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. Please find below the list of
sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Sources Consulted
The Baltic Times: News from Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania [Riga]. Weekly.
DIRB file on Latvia.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
(FBIS) Reports. Daily.
News from Helsinki Watch [New York].
Monthly.
On-line search of media sources.
Oral sources.
Transition: Events and Issues in the
Former Soviet Union and East-Central and Southeastern Europe
[Prague]. Bi-monthly.
Uncaptive Minds [New York].
Quarterly.