Trinidad and Tobago: Information regarding a social group named "RASTAFARIAN"
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 December 1989 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | TTO3125 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Trinidad and Tobago: Information regarding a social group named "RASTAFARIAN", 1 December 1989, TTO3125, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6abdc74.html [accessed 6 June 2023] |
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According to The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 'Rastafarian' refers to a "... member of a politico-religious movement among elements of the black population of Jamaica, who worship Haile Salassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia, under his precoronation name, Ras (Prince) Tafari.... According to the Rastafarians, blacks are the true Jews, subjected to the evil white race in divine punishment for their sins but eventually to be redeemed by repatriation to Africa, their true home and heaven on earth." [The New Encyclopedia Britannica, (Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. Chicago: 1989) Volume 9, p. 949.]
No references to 'Rastafarians' in the context of Trinidad and Tobago were found in the sources available at present to the IRBDC.
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