'Refugees are not in the same 'boat''

Harini Sivalingam, lawyer, community activist and PhD candidate at York University, wrote about the arrival of the Ocean Lady and Sun Sea in Canada ten years ago, carrying Tamil refugees who "fled horrors in their homeland in search of safety, security and stability." "Immediately upon arrival, these refugees were detained, locked up, and interrogated, many of them for lengthy periods of time. In the case of the MV Sun Sea (which arrived carrying 492 Tamil men, women, and children 10 months later in August 2010), families were separated, and children were detained." "In contravention of...