Document #1282376
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
According to census figures from the Sri
Lankan Department for Census and Statistics quoted in an
information package on Sri Lanka which was published by the
Schweizerische Zentralstelle für Flüchtlingshilfe (SHF)
(Swiss Assistance to Refugees Central Office), there were 187,456
Tamils in Colombo in 1981 (Keller May 1990, 12). This figure
includes the 165,952 Sri Lankan Tamils and 21,504 Indian
(plantation) Tamils of Colombo (Ibid.). In 1981, the total
population of Colombo was 1,698,322 (Ibid.).
No additional or/and corroborating
information is currently available to the DIRB in Ottawa.
Keller, Walter. May 1990. Sri Lanka:
Informationen für HilfswerksvertreterInnen im Asylverfarhen.
Zurich: Schweizerische Zentralstelle für Flüchtlingshilfe
(SHF).