24 April 2010
Allow the Sri Lankan Refugees for Access to UNHCR Immediately! SUARAM has been informed that a group of 75 Tamil asylum seekers stranded in a ship moored off Tanjong Piandang, Perak since 19th April 2010. They fled from Sri Lanka in fear of persecution and harsh living conditions. We were informed that among the 75 individuals, 61 [...]
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17 February 2010
254 Sri Lankan Tamil-speaking refugees have been trapped on a tiny boat in the port of Merak in Indonesia. It will be 150 days on march 10th. Currently No humanitarian agencies apart from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) are allowed to visit the boat. The IOM, which gets $12 million a year from the [...]
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