Cargo Ship: Aug and Tamil Migrants

cargo ship: Aug. 13, 2010 The Canadian navy intercepts the cargo ship MV Sun Sea carrying 492 people and escorts it to CFB Esquimalt, near Victoria, according to Metro News. Aug. 15, 2010 The RCMP says one of the Tamil migrants on the freighter died just weeks before the ship arrived off B.C. The Mounties say a 37-year-old man died about three weeks earlier after getting sick on board the vessel, with no way to treat his illness. Aug. 11, 2010 The cargo ship believed to be carrying hundreds of Tamils from Sri Lanka continues sailing toward the British Columbia coast, crossing into an economic zone that extends 370 kilometres from Canada's shores. Aug. 19, 2010 Five migrants, all women, participate in an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing in Vancouver. Sept. 13, 2010 A pregnant woman who arrived aboard the MV Sun Sea is the first of the migrants to be ordered released from detention. Aug. 26, 2010 Shepherd Moss, a lawyer for some of the 492 Tamils, suggests federal agencies are trying to drag out the identity checks on the migrants, thereby keeping them in jail longer. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.