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MV ''Sun Sea'' is a cargo ship that brought 492 Sri Lankan Tamils into British Columbia, Canada in August 2010. The MV ''Sun Sea'', a Thai cargo ship which had been tracked by multiple countries since June 2010, was intercepted off the coast of British Columbia on 12 August 2010, and boarded by Canadian authorities. Escorted by HMCS ''Winnipeg'' and HMCS ''Whitehorse'',〔 it docked at CFB Esquimalt on August 13.〔 492 Sri Lankan asylum seekers were on board, some with possible links to the Tamil Tigers. The passengers left from Thailand on a three-month voyage. 380 were men, 63 women, and 49 minors. All made refugee claims due to violence in Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan Civil War. On August 14/15,〔 the adult migrants were transferred to "accommodation and detention facilities" in the Lower Mainland, while minors were taken to low-risk facilities, with their mothers if they were accompanied. On 10 February 2011, Amnesty International Canada, the Canadian Council for Refugees, the Canadian Tamil Congress, and the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group criticized "the government's aggressive efforts to keep the passengers of the MV Sun Sea in detention", claiming that In February 2011, the incident was estimated to have cost the federal government $25 million. Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave Thailand $12 million to battle human smuggling operations in 2012, and the government toughened immigration laws and penalties on human smugglers.〔 Six suspects—two Canadians and four Sri Lankans—were charged in connection with the case. As of 18 May 2012, the majority of the passengers had been released, with refugee claims in progress. Two were in police custody, three were in Canada Border Services Agency detention, 19 had been given deportation orders for alleged crimes, six had been accepted as refugees, and six had had their claims rejected.〔 ==See also== * ''Komagata Maru'' incident * Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MV Sun Sea incident」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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