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Sri Lanka's new asylum route: A 4,000-km journey across the Indian Ocean
Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 08:38 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.Oct 10 (New Humanitarian) Faced with tightening borders in Australia and elsewhere, hundreds of Sri Lankan asylum seekers are instead turning to a new migration route stretching 4,000 kilometres across the Indian Ocean.
Since January 2018, at least 291 Sri Lankans have boarded fishing boats or makeshift rafts to reach the tiny French territories of La Réunion and Mayotte off the coast of Madagascar, the UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, reported this month.
more/source:
http://www.lankapage.com/NewsFiles19/Oct10_1570720082.php
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/Sri-Lanka-migration-route-Mayotte-Reunion-Australia-asylum
Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 08:38 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.Oct 10 (New Humanitarian) Faced with tightening borders in Australia and elsewhere, hundreds of Sri Lankan asylum seekers are instead turning to a new migration route stretching 4,000 kilometres across the Indian Ocean.
Since January 2018, at least 291 Sri Lankans have boarded fishing boats or makeshift rafts to reach the tiny French territories of La Réunion and Mayotte off the coast of Madagascar, the UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, reported this month.
more/source:
http://www.lankapage.com/NewsFiles19/Oct10_1570720082.php
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/Sri-Lanka-migration-route-Mayotte-Reunion-Australia-asylum