Document #1191528
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
For information on the Trincomalee district
ID card, please consult the attached 10 March 1998 letter that was
sent to the Research Directorate by the senior legal officer of the
Colombo human rights organization, Lawyers for Human Rights and
Development (LHRD).
For information on LHRD and its activities,
please consult the 11 January 1996 letter from LHRD attached to
Response to Information Request LKA23043.E of 25 January 1996. The
following Responses to Information Requests provide information on
LHRD by other organizations: LKA23271.E of 22 March 1996,
LKA23902.E of 15 April 1996, LKA24160.E of 14 May 1996 and
LKA24472.E of 20 June 1996. All of these Responses are available at
all Regional Documentation Centres.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the Research Directorate 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.
Attachment
Lawyers for Human Rights and Development
(LHRD), Colombo. 10 March 1998. Letter from the senior legal
advisor.