About 148 Sri Lankan men, women and children were returned to their homeland Thursday after arriving in Benin.
It's believed the group was planning to come to Canada and were shaken down by human smugglers while transiting through the West African nation.
Canadian police and intelligence agencies succeed yet again in interrupting another human smuggling plot," Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees was on hand from the start to explain they had a right to seek asylum in Benin, but the group decided instead to return to Sri Lanka.
492 and 76 Sri Lankan asylum- seekers applied for the refugee accommodation in Canada.
By sending them to SriLanka Canada as stopped the human smuggling, Canadian website reports. | 
The federal government has apparently helped stop another group of Sri Lankan migrants from seeking asylum illegally in Canada, Canadian website reports.
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Four suspects and students of Chenkaladi Central collage connection with Chenkaladi double murder further remanded till May 29. [
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Was former PM Rajiv Gandhi targeted while he was touring Mysore days before his assassination at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu on May 21, 1991? According to CM Siddaramaiah, there was an attempt to kill Rajiv Gandhi during his visit to Mysore. [
Deputy Minister Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan alias Karuna stated “I always respect R.Sambanthan and Mawai Senadhiraja”. [
The army will shift most of the camps in the Jaffna peninsula to Palaly, Army Commander Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya said today. [
Officer of the child affairs J.Jayanakenady announced disabled girl (18) was sexually abused in Kanagarayankulam in Vavuniya. [
Indian High Commissioner to SriLanka Ashok K.Kantha informed Tamil National Alliance that India fail to achieve victor on granting proper solution to problems faced Tamils in SriLanka. [
Unblasted bomb recovered from Vavunatheevu police division in Batticaloa district. [
UNP MP Sajith Premadasa says his father gave one group in the LTTE weapons in order to try and create a split in the LTTE. [
There is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide – and got away with it. Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone, The Australian reported. [