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Two more people have been charged with organizing illegal entryinto Canada in connection with a ship that brought hundreds of Tamil migrants to B.C.'s West Coast. According to documents sworn in B.C. provincial court in Vancouver,Kunarobinson Christhurajah and Lesly Jana Emmanuel were chargedMonday in connection with the MV Sun Sea, the boat that arrived offthe B.C. coast in August 2010, carrying 492 people. Christhurajah and Emmanuel are both named in an amended indictment,bringing to three the total of people now charged in the case. Christhurajah and Emmanuel were both arrested in B.C. and areslated to make an appearance in Vancouver Provincial CourtWednesday morning. "The investigation remains ongoing and we're continuing to gatherevidence," said RCMP Sgt. Duncan Pound. "We're not obviously ruling out the possibility of additionalcharges in the future, and so it wouldn't be appropriate to speakright now as to the specific evidence against these twoindividuals." Last month, RCMP announced the arrest of the man accused ofmasterminding the alleged human smuggling operation. Thayakaran Markandu was arrested in France after an international manhunt. Police said they intend toextradite him to face trial in Canada. An indictment filed in provincial court accuses Christhurajah,Emmanuel and Markandu of crimes in the Juan de Fuca Strait off theB.C. coast, as well as in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand. The indictment, which contains unproven allegations, claims they"did knowingly organize, induce, aid or abet the coming into Canadaof one or more persons who are not in the possession of a visa,passport or other document required by the Immigration and RefugeeProtection Act." The Sun Sea arrived with 492 Tamil men, women and children aboard.All made refugee claims, pointing to decades of violence wrought bya 26-year civil war in their home country of Sri Lanka. Several passengers deported The ship arrived a year after another vessel, the MV Ocean Lady,brought 76 Tamil migrants to B.C.'s shores. The two ships amplified the debate about what to do when migrantsarrive in large numbers after paying human smugglers, with thefederal Conservative government using the two cases to argue for tougher human smuggling and refugee laws. The federal government was quick to suggest some of the passengershad connections to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a bannedterrorist organization and separatist group that lost the civil warin 2009. Passengers on both ships were accused of ties to the Tigers duringhearings at the Immigration and Refugee Board. While none of thoseallegations was substantiated for passengers on the Ocean Lady,several Sun Sea passengers were ordered deported for connections to the Tigers. The federal Conservatives pointed to the arrivals to argue fortougher sentences for human smugglers, proposing legislation thatwould target operations that bring large numbers to Canada at once. I am an expert from swimmingpool-cleaner.com, while we provides the quality product, such as Horse Grooming Equipment , Pool Vacuum Hose, Swimming Pool Thermometer,and more.
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