'I am worried that nine months will turn into nine years'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Meera's husband is one of 89 Sri Lankan Tamils, including 20 children, who set out from southern India in a fishing boat in late September 2021 in the hopes of claiming asylum in Canada.
49% : "I am worried that nine months will turn into nine years," said Janaki, echoing the experience of an earlier group of asylum seekers who ended up trapped on a UK military base in Cyprus for 20 years before being allowed to claim asylum in the UK in 2018.
45% : Dozens of Tamil asylum-seekers have launched a hunger strike after eight months stranded on a secretive military base in the Indian Ocean, demanding that the government of the United Kingdom allow them to claim asylum in a safe third country.

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