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Message: <blockquote data-quote="malkoha2" data-source="post: 7619141" data-attributes="member: 275129">Read *****************The Canadian   authorities are monitoring a ship with some 300 refugees on board   believed to be operated by the LTTE and heading to Australia via   Thailand, Canada’s Globe and Mail reported.  According to the  report the federal scrutiny of the ship, known as the  Sun Sea, is a  rare example of Canada's “pushing-borders-out strategy,” a  tactic that  is meant to prevent a repeat of a massive asylum claim that  occurred  last fall.  Last October, 77 Tamil asylum seekers from Sri Lanka  arrived on the  shores of British Columbia in a vessel alleged to have  been controlled  by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. After being  jailed for several  weeks in Canada, the claimants were freed pending  hearings.  In the interim, federal agents dispatched to foreign  shores have been  on the lookout for a sister ship run by the same  alleged Tamil Tigers  smuggling operation reputed to have up to 300  refugees aboard.  This is the Sun Sea, also known as the Harin  Panich 19 (HP19), and  details about its journey are murky. What is  known is that Canadian  police and spies have formed partnerships with  counterparts in Australia  and Southeast Asia to watch out for the ship,  now believed to be in the  Gulf of Thailand.  The original fear  was that the vessel could be bound for Canada, with  Tamil asylum  seekers looking to take advantage of the country's refugee  system. As  things stand, there are few more hospitable places in the  world. On  Wednesday, the Australian newspaper reported “300 asylum  seekers on the  way.”   Canadian officials speak guardedly about their role in  the  investigation.  “The government of Canada’s strategic  approach with respect to migrant  vessels includes efforts abroad that  involve stopping illegal  migrant-smuggling ships that are destined for  Canada at their points of  departure,” Lisa Monette, a spokeswoman for  the Department of Foreign  Affairs, told The Globe last month.-livelanka--dailymirror-</blockquote>

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