Information on how Sri Lankan authorities would treat Sinhalese businessmen conducting or suspected of conducting business with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) [LKA17817.E]

Sources currently available to the DIRB do not provide information on the above subject.

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.

Sources Consulted

Amnesty International Report 1993. 1993.

Amnesty International Report 1992. 1992.

Amnesty International country file (Sri Lanka).

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1993. 1994.

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1992. 1993.

DIRB country file (Sri Lanka).

Keesing's Reports of World Events [Cambridge]. 1992-94.

News from Asia Watch. 1991-94.

Sri Lanka Monitor [London]. 1992-94.

On-line search.