If in fact they are a terrorist organization and deemed as such, they should be identified and put on a plane/boat or whatever and shipped back to their backward homeland.
We don't need the likes of that in Canada. You come here, you leave your problems where you come from – Period!

I may have it wrong, but when the Tamils were winning/holding their own in the civil war, kicking the Sri Lankan military’s collective ass. That was okay. Now that the Sri Lankan military is kicking the Tigers asses, now it a problem. When they were murdering Sri Lankan civilians there was no out cry, but now that Tamil civilians are being killed, it’s an outrage. Huh? Why the double standard?

Weather they’re winning the war or losing it, they’re still terrorists

Guelphfist, Who do you think the Tamils are? Tamils are also Sri Lankans. Seems like you dont know what's going in Sri Lanka.
Anyone not agreeing with Sri Lankan Government is labeled as Terrorists/LTTE under “War on Terror” agenda whether they are Tamils or Singalese.

Please know the facts before talking. Do you even know why the Tamil Canadians are protesting in Ottawa?
Over the weekend the Sri Lankan Army has killed 1000s of Tamil civilians in the safety zone with deployment of poisonous chemical weapons, which was prohibited by international conventions after world experiencing gruesome mass deaths of combatants during the World War I. Weekend alone in the “safe zone” 1000s were killed and now a days they are killing almost 100 to 150 people per day. Quick question for those who are labeling Tamil Tigers as terrorist; what do you call the SL government’s atrocities and violent towards civilians? Tigers are fighting with those who are trying to get rid of the Tamil Community in their own land. But the Sri Lankan army is killing the innocent Tamil civilians by bombing shelling, using gas and other banned weapons. Something to think about, what is the Sri Lankan government doing by having a former LTTE commander in their parliament? Shouldn’t he be punished? Shouldn’t he be in jail serving sentence? Would Canada or USA appoint a former Taliban or Al-Queda terrorist as MP in their parliament? I don’t think I need to say more, you decided whether this war is on terrorism or war on Tamils and who the real terrorist is and who should have been banned by Canadian government. Canadian government should remove the ban against Tamil Tigers and bring economical blockage against Sri Lankan Government.

I understand the Tamils were in Ottawa last week and met with Liberal M.Ps in a meeting room of Parliament – invited by a Lib. member (Missisauga East) with a large Tamil Pop. ( One Con was there chair foreign affairs comm.) National Post today blogs has one by Jon Kay about a cartoon from a Sri Lankan defence ministry web site – not very flattering to Liberal party – Blog comments are unbelievable – we have a problem in this country.

So, these folks disrupt the lives of innocent citizens in Ottawa for what? As if the Sri Lankan government will bow down and give in to them because they protest in Ottawa. If they're that serious, why don't they go back there and fight for what they want instead of making our lives miserable?

Amen, brother.

Please know the facts before talking. Do you even know why the Tamil Canadians are protesting in Ottawa?

Over the weekend the Sri Lankan Army has killed 1000s of Tamil civilians in the safety zone with deployment of poisonous chemical weapons, which was prohibited by international conventions after world experiencing gruesome mass deaths of combatants during the World War I. Weekend alone in the “safe zone” 1000s were killed and now a days they are killing almost 100 to 150 people per day.

Quick question for those who are labeling Tamil Tigers as terrorist; what do you call the SL government’s atrocities and violent towards civilians? Tigers are fighting with those who are trying to get rid of the Tamil Community in their own land. But the Sri Lankan army is killing the innocent Tamil civilians by bombing shelling, using gas and other banned weapons. Something to think about, what is the Sri Lankan government doing by having a former LTTE commander in their parliament? Shouldn’t he be punished? Shouldn’t he be in jail serving sentence? Would Canada or USA appoint a former Taliban or Al-Queda terrorist as MP in their parliament? I don’t think I need to say more, you decided whether this war is on terrorism or war on Tamils and who the real terrorist is and who should have been banned by Canadian government. Canadian government should remove the ban against Tamil Tigers and bring economical blockage against Sri Lankan Government.

Since British left Sri Lankan Government has organized many Anti-Tamil programs, Massacre and an Anti-JVP program, Jail massacre, burning Tamil cultural center. Many young masses are perished in last 30 years More than 100,000 Tamils killed. Anyone not agreeing with Sri Lankan Government is labeled as Terrorists or LTTE under “War on Terror” agenda whether they are Tamils or Singalese.

Please know the facts before talking. Do you even know why the Tamil Canadians are protesting in Ottawa?

Over the weekend the Sri Lankan Army has killed 1000s of Tamil civilians in the safety zone with deployment of poisonous chemical weapons, which was prohibited by international conventions after world experiencing gruesome mass deaths of combatants during the World War I. Weekend alone in the “safe zone” 1000s were killed and now a days they are killing almost 100 to 150 people per day.

Quick question for those who are labeling Tamil Tigers as terrorist; what do you call the SL government’s atrocities and violent towards civilians? Tigers are fighting with those who are trying to get rid of the Tamil Community in their own land. But the Sri Lankan army is killing the innocent Tamil civilians by bombing shelling, using gas and other banned weapons. Something to think about, what is the Sri Lankan government doing by having a former LTTE commander in their parliament? Shouldn’t he be punished? Shouldn’t he be in jail serving sentence? Would Canada or USA appoint a former Taliban or Al-Queda terrorist as MP in their parliament? I don’t think I need to say more, you decided whether this war is on terrorism or war on Tamils and who the real terrorist is and who should have been banned by Canadian government. Canadian government should remove the ban against Tamil Tigers and bring economical blockage against Sri Lankan Government.

Since British left Sri Lankan Government has organized many Anti-Tamil programs, Massacre and an Anti-JVP program, Jail massacre, burning Tamil cultural center. Many young masses are perished in last 30 years More than 100,000 Tamils killed. Anyone not agreeing with Sri Lankan Government is labeled as Terrorists or LTTE under “War on Terror” agenda whether they are Tamils or Singalese.

Please know the facts before talking. Do you even know why the Tamil Canadians are protesting in Ottawa?

Over the weekend the Sri Lankan Army has killed 1000s of Tamil civilians in the safety zone with deployment of poisonous chemical weapons, which was prohibited by international conventions after world experiencing gruesome mass deaths of combatants during the World War I. Weekend alone in the “safe zone” 1000s were killed and now a days they are killing almost 100 to 150 people per day.

Quick question for those who are labeling Tamil Tigers as terrorist; what do you call the SL government’s atrocities and violent towards civilians? Tigers are fighting with those who are trying to get rid of the Tamil Community in their own land. But the Sri Lankan army is killing the innocent Tamil civilians by bombing shelling, using gas and other banned weapons. Something to think about, what is the Sri Lankan government doing by having a former LTTE commander in their parliament? Shouldn’t he be punished? Shouldn’t he be in jail serving sentence? Would Canada or USA appoint a former Taliban or Al-Queda terrorist as MP in their parliament? I don’t think I need to say more, you decided whether this war is on terrorism or war on Tamils and who the real terrorist is and who should have been banned by Canadian government. Canadian government should remove the ban against Tamil Tigers and bring economical blockage against Sri Lankan Government.

Since British left Sri Lankan Government has organized many Anti-Tamil programs, Massacre and an Anti-JVP program, Jail massacre, burning Tamil cultural center. Many young masses are perished in last 30 years More than 100,000 Tamils killed. Anyone not agreeing with Sri Lankan Government is labeled as Terrorists or LTTE under “War on Terror” agenda whether they are Tamils or Singalese.

Please know the facts before talking. Do you even know why the Tamil Canadians are protesting in Ottawa?

Over the weekend the Sri Lankan Army has killed 1000s of Tamil civilians in the safety zone with deployment of poisonous chemical weapons, which was prohibited by international conventions after world experiencing gruesome mass deaths of combatants during the World War I. Weekend alone in the “safe zone” 1000s were killed and now a days they are killing almost 100 to 150 people per day.

Quick question for those who are labeling Tamil Tigers as terrorist; what do you call the SL government’s atrocities and violent towards civilians? Tigers are fighting with those who are trying to get rid of the Tamil Community in their own land. But the Sri Lankan army is killing the innocent Tamil civilians by bombing shelling, using gas and other banned weapons. Something to think about, what is the Sri Lankan government doing by having a former LTTE commander in their parliament? Shouldn’t he be punished? Shouldn’t he be in jail serving sentence? Would Canada or USA appoint a former Taliban or Al-Queda terrorist as MP in their parliament? I don’t think I need to say more, you decided whether this war is on terrorism or war on Tamils and who the real terrorist is and who should have been banned by Canadian government. Canadian government should remove the ban against Tamil Tigers and bring economical blockage against Sri Lankan Government.

Since British left Sri Lankan Government has organized many Anti-Tamil programs, Massacre and an Anti-JVP program, Jail massacre, burning Tamil cultural center. Many young masses are perished in last 30 years More than 100,000 Tamils killed. Anyone not agreeing with Sri Lankan Government is labeled as Terrorists or LTTE under “War on Terror” agenda whether they are Tamils or Singalese.

Please know the facts before talking. Do you even know why the Tamil Canadians are protesting in Ottawa?

Over the weekend the Sri Lankan Army has killed 1000s of Tamil civilians in the safety zone with deployment of poisonous chemical weapons, which was prohibited by international conventions after world experiencing gruesome mass deaths of combatants during the World War I. Weekend alone in the “safe zone” 1000s were killed and now a days they are killing almost 100 to 150 people per day.

Quick question for those who are labeling Tamil Tigers as terrorist; what do you call the SL government’s atrocities and violent towards civilians? Tigers are fighting with those who are trying to get rid of the Tamil Community in their own land. But the Sri Lankan army is killing the innocent Tamil civilians by bombing shelling, using gas and other banned weapons. Something to think about, what is the Sri Lankan government doing by having a former LTTE commander in their parliament? Shouldn’t he be punished? Shouldn’t he be in jail serving sentence? Would Canada or USA appoint a former Taliban or Al-Queda terrorist as MP in their parliament? I don’t think I need to say more, you decided whether this war is on terrorism or war on Tamils and who the real terrorist is and who should have been banned by Canadian government. Canadian government should remove the ban against Tamil Tigers and bring economical blockage against Sri Lankan Government.

Since British left Sri Lankan Government has organized many Anti-Tamil programs, Massacre and an Anti-JVP program, Jail massacre, burning Tamil cultural center. Many young masses are perished in last 30 years More than 100,000 Tamils killed. Anyone not agreeing with Sri Lankan Government is labeled as Terrorists or LTTE under “War on Terror” agenda whether they are Tamils or Singalese.

Please know the facts before talking. Do you even know why the Tamil Canadians are protesting in Ottawa?

Over the weekend the Sri Lankan Army has killed 1000s of Tamil civilians in the safety zone with deployment of poisonous chemical weapons, which was prohibited by international conventions after world experiencing gruesome mass deaths of combatants during the World War I. Weekend alone in the “safe zone” 1000s were killed and now a days they are killing almost 100 to 150 people per day.

Quick question for those who are labeling Tamil Tigers as terrorist; what do you call the SL government’s atrocities and violent towards civilians? Tigers are fighting with those who are trying to get rid of the Tamil Community in their own land. But the Sri Lankan army is killing the innocent Tamil civilians by bombing shelling, using gas and other banned weapons. Something to think about, what is the Sri Lankan government doing by having a former LTTE commander in their parliament? Shouldn’t he be punished? Shouldn’t he be in jail serving sentence? Would Canada or USA appoint a former Taliban or Al-Queda terrorist as MP in their parliament? I don’t think I need to say more, you decided whether this war is on terrorism or war on Tamils and who the real terrorist is and who should have been banned by Canadian government. Canadian government should remove the ban against Tamil Tigers and bring economical blockage against Sri Lankan Government.

Since British left Sri Lankan Government has organized many Anti-Tamil programs, Massacre and an Anti-JVP program, Jail massacre, burning Tamil cultural center. Many young masses are perished in last 30 years More than 100,000 Tamils killed. Anyone not agreeing with Sri Lankan Government is labeled as Terrorists or LTTE under “War on Terror” agenda whether they are Tamils or Singalese.

How are the Tamil Canadians making Canadians lives miserable? Please explain.

Tamil Canadians work hard and pay tax just like everyone else in the country. When there is Gay pride, roads are closed, it's ok with the Canadians. When they shut down the highways to bring so called hero on highway for stepping on bombs(not even saving an animal) it's ok. but when Tamils Canadians are protesting; they are making peoples live miserable. Interesting

Hey TamilGal: if they think they’re getting any sympathy from us by screwing up our commute home, you got it all wrong. Besides, isnt the LTTE a banned terrorist organization? Didnt you guys invent such wonderful things as the suicide bomber.

Im sure the SL gov is doing some horrible things but blocking traffic 20 thousand miles away from the action isnt going to help you. Specially 2 days in a row. This is a disgrace and I hope the police do their job and arrest the people who are disrupting traffic.

Hey TamilGal: if they think they’re getting any sympathy from us by screwing up our commute home, you got it all wrong. Besides, isnt the LTTE a banned terrorist organization? Didnt you guys invent such wonderful things as the suicide bomber.

Im sure the SL gov is doing some horrible things but blocking traffic 20 thousand miles away from the action isnt going to help you. Specially 2 days in a row. This is a disgrace and I hope the police do their job and arrest the people who are disrupting traffic.

Exactly. They’re protesting in the wrong place. If they’ve got time to bus to Ottawa and protest in the middle of the week, disrupting the lives of working people of Canada, perhaps they could do something more constructive by going after the Sri Lankan government by the plane loads.

They’re flagged as a terrorist organization, as such they should be rounded up off our streets and arrested. A protest on Parliament Hill with a permit may be allowed for most, don’t know about a terrorist organization.

This does not bode well for Canada. The government is asleep at the switch on this one. RCMP should have been called in or it will get worse.

Exactly. They’re protesting in the wrong place. If they’ve got time to bus to Ottawa and protest in the middle of the week, disrupting the lives of working people of Canada, perhaps they could do something more constructive by going after the Sri Lankan government by the plane loads.

They’re flagged as a terrorist organization, as such they should be rounded up off our streets and arrested. A protest on Parliament Hill with a permit may be allowed for most, don’t know about a terrorist organization.

This does not bode well for Canada. The government is asleep at the switch on this one. RCMP should have been called in or it will get worse.

How are the Tamil Canadians making the Canadians life miserable?

How are the Tamil Canadians making the Canadians life miserable?

Wow, are you a Canadian first or a member of a group flagged as terrorists first? The shame of even mentioning the fact our fallen soldiers are driven down the highway of heroes is anything close to a horde banned as terrorists holding up hard working citizens from getting to and from work or God forbid emergency vehicles..
And by the way, the soldiers who died fighting TERRORISM are not “so called heros” they are heroes.

The cowards are the ones who live in the safety of Canada and protest instead of going off to the lands they came from and fighting the governments there. Come to Canada, be a Canadian first and leave your battles behind.
Canada contributes her share and more to the disadvantaged throughout the world and will continue to do so.

“M3K”, shame on you.

Wow, are you a Canadian first or a member of a group flagged as terrorists first? The shame of even mentioning the fact our fallen soldiers are driven down the highway of heroes is anything close to a horde banned as terrorists holding up hard working citizens from getting to and from work or God forbid emergency vehicles..
And by the way, the soldiers who died fighting TERRORISM are not “so called heros” they are heroes.

The cowards are the ones who live in the safety of Canada and protest instead of going off to the lands they came from and fighting the governments there. Come to Canada, be a Canadian first and leave your battles behind.
Canada contributes her share and more to the disadvantaged throughout the world and will continue to do so.

“M3K”, shame on you.

TamilGal, I am sure you can link to reputable sources to back up your statements here. We are not really big in the blogsphere at accepting comments such as yours at face value. I did a quick google and can only find one site to support your statement although I did find numerous sites that seem to suggest the LTTE and the Tigers were planning to conduct chemical warfare tactics against the Sri Lanka Govt. As a side thought, and not to question your honesty, I also compared the picture on that one site with pictures of the attacks on the Kurds by the Iraq govt of Saddam and that pic looks to be similar.

TamilGal, I am sure you can link to reputable sources to back up your statements here. We are not really big in the blogsphere at accepting comments such as yours at face value. I did a quick google and can only find one site to support your statement although I did find numerous sites that seem to suggest the LTTE and the Tigers were planning to conduct chemical warfare tactics against the Sri Lanka Govt. As a side thought, and not to question your honesty, I also compared the picture on that one site with pictures of the attacks on the Kurds by the Iraq govt of Saddam and that pic looks to be similar.

Couldn’t agree more. You’re going down even more in support (as if that could happen for a terrorist group)

Couldn’t agree more. You’re going down even more in support (as if that could happen for a terrorist group)

M3K, you are looking for support for your cause here in and you call a Canadian soldier who has sacrificed more to this country than you ever will a “so called hero”? Not even saving an animal?

Granted, it is a free country and you can thank a soldier for that freedom of expression.

I thank that same soldier for creating a culture of freedom to say you are a douchebag.

M3K, you are looking for support for your cause here in and you call a Canadian soldier who has sacrificed more to this country than you ever will a “so called hero”? Not even saving an animal?

Granted, it is a free country and you can thank a soldier for that freedom of expression.

I thank that same soldier for creating a culture of freedom to say you are a douchebag.

Sorry, but I do not understand your comment. Are you saying that it was okay for Canadians or for your community and your community alone (I am presuming that you are originally from Sri Lanka) when the Tamils were terrorizing people in Sri Lanka. I do not recall any governing party of Canada being on the side of terrorists.

Sorry, but I do not understand your comment. Are you saying that it was okay for Canadians or for your community and your community alone (I am presuming that you are originally from Sri Lanka) when the Tamils were terrorizing people in Sri Lanka. I do not recall any governing party of Canada being on the side of terrorists.

TamilGal – where is your evidence? I can write fairy tales too. Do you have any links to prove to us that 1000s were killed in the last few days. Give me a break !!! Tamil Tigers is a terrorist organization and that’s that. You saying it is not, does not make it so. Once you get a taste for violence, its an addiction more difficult to give up then smoking/drinking.
You should be thankful that you are away from the violence of your ex-country. Is Canada not your home? If you consider SL to be your land, then why not go there and help improve the politics of SL instead of contributing/participating in the protests in a land that you do not appreciate. These protests and people like you who blame the Canadian govt are an eyesore and a plague to other immigrants like me.

TamilGal – where is your evidence? I can write fairy tales too. Do you have any links to prove to us that 1000s were killed in the last few days. Give me a break !!! Tamil Tigers is a terrorist organization and that’s that. You saying it is not, does not make it so. Once you get a taste for violence, its an addiction more difficult to give up then smoking/drinking.
You should be thankful that you are away from the violence of your ex-country. Is Canada not your home? If you consider SL to be your land, then why not go there and help improve the politics of SL instead of contributing/participating in the protests in a land that you do not appreciate. These protests and people like you who blame the Canadian govt are an eyesore and a plague to other immigrants like me.

hey bro,

At least 1,000,000 protested for the tamil tigers around the world.

those one million people have atleast two relatives in sri lanka so that means 2,000,000 will support tamil tigers in sri lanka

already 3,000,000 support tamil tigers

there are 4,000,000 tamils altogether in sri lanka.

sri lanka was two countries before British joined it together for their convenience.

We need to understand why tamil tigers began…religion..No. free homeland..Yes

separate the country, how it used to be like

Ronald – tamils don’t have a homeland.

every state has a tamil but there is no state for a tamil

read this website it is very usefull: http://www.tamilnation.org/

hey bro,

At least 1,000,000 protested for the tamil tigers around the world.

those one million people have atleast two relatives in sri lanka so that means 2,000,000 will support tamil tigers in sri lanka

already 3,000,000 support tamil tigers

there are 4,000,000 tamils altogether in sri lanka.

sri lanka was two countries before British joined it together for their convenience.

We need to understand why tamil tigers began…religion..No. free homeland..Yes

separate the country, how it used to be like

Ronald – tamils don’t have a homeland.

every state has a tamil but there is no state for a tamil

read this website it is very usefull: http://www.tamilnation.org/

As they represent an outlawed terrorist organization, why aren’t they all simply arrested and deported?

As they represent an outlawed terrorist organization, why aren’t they all simply arrested and deported?

How much did the Sri Lankan government pay you to publish this? Or was it Omar al-Bashir? This biased article that just looks at all the Tamils in Canada as terrorists is just plain sad as it supports the oppressor not the oppressed.

We should be calling all ourselves terrorists for what we did to the First Nation groups in Canada. Jesus Christ. Why does Canada have an annual day for Prevention of Genocide on April 7 if they aren’t going to do anything about genocides? Shame on this country. Shame on you Mr.Harper.

How much did the Sri Lankan government pay you to publish this? Or was it Omar al-Bashir? This biased article that just looks at all the Tamils in Canada as terrorists is just plain sad as it supports the oppressor not the oppressed.

We should be calling all ourselves terrorists for what we did to the First Nation groups in Canada. Jesus Christ. Why does Canada have an annual day for Prevention of Genocide on April 7 if they aren’t going to do anything about genocides? Shame on this country. Shame on you Mr.Harper.

Exactly. That article quoted above says the LTTE provoked the 1983 violence. It fails to mention that similar riots (albeit not on that scale) occurred for three decades before the LTTE were even formed.

Their strategy for bringing attention to the plight of Tamils is possibly misguided. They've tried many other options to no avail a these are desperate times.

LTTE suicide bombers primarily attack political and military targets. Not civilian, though there have been collateral casualties. In any case, the LTTE's actions should not detract from the argument these protesters are making.

If you want to protest, fine. Get on a plane and go back over there. I don't want to see this crap on Canadian soil. And while your there, and you are not happy with the results. Then escalate it, OVER THERE! Not here. If you want to live a peaceful life, you are more than welcome to remain here. That is why you came here, wasn’t it?

TamilGal: “Please know the facts before talking. Do you even know why the Tamil Canadians are protesting in Ottawa?”

TamilGal, I don't really care.

I'm a Canadian living in Canada. Canadian politics have nothing to do with Sri Lankan politics and vice versa. Sri Lankans living in Canada are obviously concerned about what's happening in their country of origin, but have absolutely no right to bring these politics to Canadian streets or Canada's Parliament — or to expect Canadians to take these politics on.

I agree with Horatio Dunesbury that these protesters who were blocking the entrances and exits to Canada's Parliament and who held up traffic, should have been arrested. When immigrants arrive in Canada, they need to leave their particular grievances in their country of origin. Certainly, they shouldn't expect Canadians to foot the bill for their demonstrations (police presence, loss of business for those stuck in traffic, etc.) or that our government should be involved in politics “back home.” Canada's now their home — or, if they don't see it that way, they need to go back to the home to which they still feel an allegiance.

By all means help the folks in Sri Lanka if that's what you feel you have to do — and do it legally — but don't ask Canadians who have no connection to Sri Lanka to make sacrifices for your cause or to pay the bills.

Sorry if a 15 minute delay in getting home is making your lives miserable. They are protesting because the Canadian/World governments are ignoring the plight of their Tamil families back home, who are being killed, tortured and disappeared on a mass scale. Maybe not genocide, but it really is quite bad.

A lot of them would be killed if they go back home. They are desperate for help in a dire situation and you are complaining about traffic.

Sorry if a 15 minute delay in getting home is making your lives miserable. They are protesting because the Canadian/World governments are ignoring the plight of their Tamil families back home, who are being killed, tortured and disappeared on a mass scale. Maybe not genocide, but it really is quite bad.

A lot of them would be killed if they go back home. They are desperate for help in a dire situation and you are complaining about traffic.

When your family, friends or relatives is still in trouble would you ignore their plight? Just because you’ve made it out should not mean that try and help those you’ve left behind.

Our homeland IS backward. Not only is it backward, but there is a whole section of it’s population that are in very real distress.

Breaking laws of the country you live in is wrong, but they are obviously quite desperate.

When your family, friends or relatives is still in trouble would you ignore their plight? Just because you’ve made it out should not mean that try and help those you’ve left behind.

Our homeland IS backward. Not only is it backward, but there is a whole section of it’s population that are in very real distress.

Breaking laws of the country you live in is wrong, but they are obviously quite desperate.

You are citing an article as a “good source” from the Mackenzie Institute in which genocide is described as follows:
“Genocide, as we have all too often seen, requires much more extensive and
enthusiastic massacres than a week of violent rioting 26 years ago. It requires
wholesale ethnic cleansing – which is something the Tigers have repeatedly
attempted, but not so the Sri Lankan authorities. It requires labour camps and
death camps – something that the Sri Lankans have never built. Notwithstanding
the events of 1983, Colombo and other Sri Lankan cities have large populations
of Tamils who haven’t felt the need to live in fear and apprehension of their neighbours
for the past quarter century.
The charges of genocide from the LTTE and their supporters have no merit, and should be
immediately ignored whenever they are raised.”

I want to clarify the Mackenzie Institute’s understanding of genocide:

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as:

“any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

A clarification to the Mackenzie Institute and to everyone else: genocide DOES NOT REQUIRE labour camps and death camps. Also this is not a 1-week riot. It has been happening since Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948. You do the math! Further, the excerpt states that Sri Lankans have never built death camps. How do you know? How does the Mackenzie Institute know? Are any independent journalists allowed in the safe zones that the government describes as “welfare camps”? Please make well-informed judgement before you or anyone makes bold statements.

Are you aware that the displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka are kept in a wire-fenced area and no one is allowed to leave that camp? The Human Rights Watch at the US Foreign Relations Hearing stated that “even relatives are not allowed to visit them”. Are you telling me that the government is not torturing Tamils? If there were Singalese stuck in these safe zones, do you think they would be using the same blunt force to fight LTTE militants? Recent pictures of dead people from the war zone area have raised issues that the Sri Lankan military is now using chemical warfare to destroy the population in the name of abolishing terrorism!

The Mackenzie Institute article is a very biased publication which does NOT take into account the rapes, the kidnapping and the continuing tortures that the government is inflicting on Tamils or any Singalese who speaks up for Tamils. Please do some more searches why reporters who speak against the government are detained or even murdered. A recent killing is that of the famous journalist, Lasantha Wickrematunga where the government has not taken any actions to find out who killed him. Wonder why?

Please stop calling all of us terrorist supporters when it is not evident that you have read enough to make a well informed judgement on what’s going on in Sri Lanka. As an 8-year old child, I was held at a gunpoint by the army. Instead of shooting me, he decided to shoot my classmate and let me go. If that happened in Canada, we would be frozen with shock and anger.

The defence minister has openly made a remark that Tamils are a minority and we cannot give them equal rights. I wonder how French Canadians would be treated if the Canadian government adopted that same attitude.

Rwanda suffered the killing of 800,000 people. How was the world not aware of this? Why was not much done to stop it? Now movies are made and people wish they had done something to stop it.

Tamils don’t want to be part of history for being abolished by the Singalese – hence we are bringing awareness so that the rest of the world, especially the politicians, would find some kindness in their busy day to at least make an effort to understand what’s going on! The politicians have the power to stop this – hence this rally in Ottawa!

History and its lessons will be repeated until learnt. You have to do more research than reading a few anti-LTTE articles to understand the aspirations of Tamils. Remember the Montreal massacre when a man shot 14 females? All of us still remember that day with sadness. So how is that horrible event any different from the females killed in another part of the world? Children are hung after being shot by the military. Just because someone is not a Canadian does not make his/her life any less-worthy. If Canada had that attitude, then there would be no Canadian peacekeepers!

Sorry for the inconvenience of traffic blocking and not being able to get to work or attend other businesses on time. But the democracy you enjoy in Canada does not exist in Sri Lanka and you can say that it’s not your problem but it is this passive attitude that killed 800,000 people in Rwanda, allowed for North Korea to threaten the world with nuclear weapons and will destroy the Tamil population in Sri Lanka if the world doesn’t do something about this. Instead of thinking from your point of view, think that we are all citizens of the world and if all of us spoke up against injustice, then there may be a chance for a peaceful world!!!

Conservatives labled Hon.Nelson Mandela

When there were genocide happening in Germany, Ruwanda or Sudan i did not care much. It was just a news for me and i would have complained about the road closures and the beer is not easily available by then. That was ignorance on my part at that time. When the genocide is happening to my family and friends, i feel the pain now. I know you are doing the same mistake as i did before and it is very difficult to explain to you unless you have the ability to put yourself into that situation. That is why we are trying to bring awareness to the canadian public about our pain as much as we can through peaceful means.

Sri Lankan government killed 99.99 % of the civilians during the civil war but Defenders of the minority tamils from elimination are terrorists and Sri Lankan government who uses every method, including chemical weapons and cluster bomps, to kill the innocent tamil civilians are the saviours of the world !!! Wasn't it obvious as who are the war criminals.

As i am writing to you today Army killed more than 100 civilians and injured more than 200: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/09/sri…. This is the daily occurance at the battle field in Vanni region. While tigers are trying to save the tamil people from getting into the hands of the barbaric army, the UN and some interested powers like to hand over them to the perpetrators of the crime. Myself, lived in sri lanka for 28 years and went through the suffering, knows very well why people don't want to go to the Army's side.

You as a journalist has the duty to bring the facts to the canadian people but hide behind some agenda and spreads the hatred against tamil people and the tigers. What would be the reason ? Why do you hate us so much even when we are in distress you hurt us more and more?

Canada, a true democratic country give tamils an opportunity to bring the facts to the world. We are working hard and will get the Canadian know the facts sooner or later.

We've had the same sort of gathering happen over in the UK. The LTTE supporters camped outside the British Parliament for a couple days demanding a ceasefire now that they are finally losing the 25 year civil war. They certainly weren't calling for a ceasefire when they were taking territory from the government (which represents the Sinhalese buddhist majority who have lived in Sri Lanka for thousands of years).

http://dhesam.de.tl/photos.htm

You decide who is terrorists – carnage by Sri Lankan Artillery. Each one does kill as much as a suicide bomber…so its not much of a difference does it? This MacKenzie institute was paid by Sri Lankan government around 2005 using Tsunami donated money to write a report on potential LTTE future plans. What do you expect them to write? Hell, 2/3 of what they write isn’t even said by USA.

http://dhesam.de.tl/photos.htm

You decide who is terrorists – carnage by Sri Lankan Artillery. Each one does kill as much as a suicide bomber…so its not much of a difference does it? This MacKenzie institute was paid by Sri Lankan government around 2005 using Tsunami donated money to write a report on potential LTTE future plans. What do you expect them to write? Hell, 2/3 of what they write isn’t even said by USA.

The Tamil protesters are making a good case against immigration – period. Why should we allow Canadians of convenience – who clearly have no appreciation for this country, its laws, culture, customs, who clearly don’t want to belong but wish to use Canada as a base of operations to perpetuate their ethnic struggle to “liberate” their beloved homeland – why should we allow these people in, grant them citizenship and allow them to determine Canada’s foreign policy.

Why should we pick favourites in an ethnic conflict between Tamils and Sinhalese. Should we pick favourites in conflict between Tutsis and Hutus, who should rule, who should dominate. This merely reinforces my belief that if you are prepared to massacre your neighbours due to ethic, cultural rivalries, you are likely not a worthy candidate for citizenship in this country and if you wish to perpetuate the conflict, don’t bring your problems before Canada’s parliament and condemn the Canadian government for lack of sympathy for your ethnic cause.

As it stands now, I would venture the Sinhalese earn more sympathy simply because they have made much less nuisance of themselves

The Tamil protesters are making a good case against immigration – period. Why should we allow Canadians of convenience – who clearly have no appreciation for this country, its laws, culture, customs, who clearly don’t want to belong but wish to use Canada as a base of operations to perpetuate their ethnic struggle to “liberate” their beloved homeland – why should we allow these people in, grant them citizenship and allow them to determine Canada’s foreign policy.

Why should we pick favourites in an ethnic conflict between Tamils and Sinhalese. Should we pick favourites in conflict between Tutsis and Hutus, who should rule, who should dominate. This merely reinforces my belief that if you are prepared to massacre your neighbours due to ethic, cultural rivalries, you are likely not a worthy candidate for citizenship in this country and if you wish to perpetuate the conflict, don’t bring your problems before Canada’s parliament and condemn the Canadian government for lack of sympathy for your ethnic cause.

As it stands now, I would venture the Sinhalese earn more sympathy simply because they have made much less nuisance of themselves

In the past few months we have had a few major protests in Canadian cities.First it was the Pro-Hamas and Pro Hezbollah demonstrations,in Montreal-Ottawa-Edmonton -Calgary.

The anti Semitic tide was the jist of these protests.

Now we have the Pro-Tamil Tigers protests blocking the downtown streets of Ottawa,these protests are in their 3 rd day now.

Both groups were always backed in the past by the Grits.Mostly in voter rich 416 and 905 area code!

These groups have been banned in Canada as terrorist groups,Then for the life of me,why are they still allowed to protest under the banner of these groups.

The main line that they give is,they are doing this for their Country ! Well folks I thought your Country was Canada.When you come here,please leave your baggage at the door!

Timeline
1948: Independance from Great Britain
1950 : First Singala colonization in the eastern part of the Island
1956 : Singala only Act
1958: Banda-Selva pact signed and abrogated
1958:1st anti-Tamil riots resulted in hundreds of Tamil civilian deaths.
1965 : Dudley-Selva pact signed and abrogated
1971: Ethnic ratio based University standadization program
1977: 2nd anti-Tamil riots resulted in hundred of Tamil civilian deaths
1983: 3rd anti Tamil riots resulted in thousands of Tamil civilian deaths

Current brutal and Genocidial war unleashed by Sri Lankan government in Vanni and the suppression of minority voices with violent tactics against Tamil politicians and journalists in the rest of the country once again exhibited the Singala nation’s lack of empathy to the sufferings of the Tamil population, intolerance to the minority views and political extremism. It shows that Singala nation is willing to use the four pillars of democracy — judiciary, legislature, executive and the press in Colombo to prosecute minorities by all means and undermine their call for fairness and justice ignoring the internationally accepted norms of government with no restraint. The tone and actions of the political and military leaders of the Singala nation after recent military campaign in the Vanni region amply manifests our long held view of the Sri Lankan government and the Singala nation as a whole. That is, in the absence of armed resistance and formidable deterrence, Singala nation will use all its powers to maintain the hegemony of Singala race at the expense of minority rights.

Since the day Sri Lanka achieved independence from the Great Britain, successive Singala powers spearheaded state sponsored colonization schemes to occupy Tamil homeland in the North-eastern part of the Island. Tamil people’s lands were occupied; villagers were chased away from their homes; Tamil names of the villages and the roads were renamed to Singala names; the ethnic population ratio in the eastern part of Island was drastically altered in favour of Singala population. Singala language only policy was introduced in 1958 to downsize Tamils from government jobs in the state controlled economy. The university admissions were standardized by ethnic ratio instead of merit based admission scheme, that favoured the Tamil students.
Having lost their trust in the Singala nation and unitary nature of the constitution, Tamils peacefully campaigned for limited power sharing agreements for North and Eastern part of the country. But any form of public dissent from Tamils was brutally suppressed. Time to time ethnic riots were planned and carried out by Government officials with the support of security apparatus. Tamils’ businesses were destroyed, families were knifed, burned alive and bodies were left on the streets for days. Due to hostile opposition from the Buddhist monks and the Singala masses, even a few power sharing agreements signed didn’t last past even for days. Tamil nation found itself helpless and disabled democratically.

Slowly armed resistance to the Singala nation`s oppression started gathering storm. At this junction once has to realize clearly that Tamils embraced armed struggle only after failing to get any form of self-government from the Singala nation for almost 30 years with non-violent methods. It is the Singala nation, which forced Tamil youths in early 1970s to fight for Tamil rights with arms. The Singala nation has been adapting the same military tactics employed today shamelessly with total impunity for the past 35 years. Until today, nearly eighty thousand Tamil people have been killed at the hands of Singala armed forces; thousands of Tamil homes and businesses have been destroyed and over a million Tamils have reached the shores of the western countries and India as refugees.

In the early days of the military conflict Tamil did not have a voice internationally; our cries and tears never reached outside the Indian Ocean. After the demise of communism, religious fundamentalism once again became the primary concern for the world democracy and civilizations in the past twenty years. With the horrified attack on September 11, 2001, Tamils struggle for equality was bundled into international terrorism. The world governments once again trusted Tamils’ well being with the Singala nation after Sri Lankan government broke the ceasefire agreement signed in 2002 between the then Sri Lankan government and the LTTE. The international community now witnesses the results of its actions in the Island. Once again Tamils have been forced to prove their plight with blood, tears and starvation death to the world.

Just wanted to comment on one element of the propoganda you've been reading – the Tamils do have a state it's called Tamil Nadu and it is a state in India. That is the Tamil homeland. A large number of Tamil workers were brought over under the British Raj from mainland India into what was then Ceylon – now they want to keep part of Sri Lanka for themselves.

How do they think they wil get our support by holding us hostage??? Why are the officers not doing anything about this? Have they not heard of gas bombs to get ride of these idiotd looking for support by keeping us hostage? they are costing us money, not working and living in our country and f cours us canadians say nothing!

In the past few months we have had a few major protests in Canadian cities.First it was the Pro-Hamas and Pro Hezbollah demonstrations,in Montreal-Ottawa-Edmonton -Calgary.

The anti Semitic tide was the jist of these protests.

Now we have the Pro-Tamil Tigers protests blocking the downtown streets of Ottawa,these protests are in their 3 rd day now.

Both groups were always backed in the past by the Grits.Mostly in voter rich 416 and 905 area code!

These groups have been banned in Canada as terrorist groups,Then for the life of me,why are they still allowed to protest under the banner of these groups.

The main line that they give is,they are doing this for their Country ! Well folks I thought your Country was Canada.When you come here,please leave your baggage at the door!

In the past few months we have had a few major protests in Canadian cities.First it was the Pro-Hamas and Pro Hezbollah demonstrations,in Montreal-Ottawa-Edmonton -Calgary.

The anti Semitic tide was the jist of these protests.

Now we have the Pro-Tamil Tigers protests blocking the downtown streets of Ottawa,these protests are in their 3 rd day now.

Both groups were always backed in the past by the Grits.Mostly in voter rich 416 and 905 area code!

These groups have been banned in Canada as terrorist groups,Then for the life of me,why are they still allowed to protest under the banner of these groups.

The main line that they give is,they are doing this for their Country ! Well folks I thought your Country was Canada.When you come here,please leave your baggage at the door!

In the past few months we have had a few major protests in Canadian cities.First it was the Pro-Hamas and Pro Hezbollah demonstrations,in Montreal-Ottawa-Edmonton -Calgary.

The anti Semitic tide was the jist of these protests.

Now we have the Pro-Tamil Tigers protests blocking the downtown streets of Ottawa,these protests are in their 3 rd day now.

Both groups were always backed in the past by the Grits.Mostly in voter rich 416 and 905 area code!

These groups have been banned in Canada as terrorist groups,Then for the life of me,why are they still allowed to protest under the banner of these groups.

The main line that they give is,they are doing this for their Country ! Well folks I thought your Country was Canada.When you come here,please leave your baggage at the door!

In the past few months we have had a few major protests in Canadian cities.First it was the Pro-Hamas and Pro Hezbollah demonstrations,in Montreal-Ottawa-Edmonton -Calgary.

The anti Semitic tide was the jist of these protests.

Now we have the Pro-Tamil Tigers protests blocking the downtown streets of Ottawa,these protests are in their 3 rd day now.

Both groups were always backed in the past by the Grits.Mostly in voter rich 416 and 905 area code!

These groups have been banned in Canada as terrorist groups,Then for the life of me,why are they still allowed to protest under the banner of these groups.

The main line that they give is,they are doing this for their Country ! Well folks I thought your Country was Canada.When you come here,please leave your baggage at the door!

RSF: Colombo blocking investigations into Lasantha murder
[TamilNet, Thursday, 09 April 2009, 09:22 GMT]
Reporters sans frontiers (RSF), a Paris-based media watchdog, in a press release issued Wednesday, accused the Government of Sri Lanka authorities for “blocking investigations into the murder of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunga,” and urged Sri Lanka's President Rajapaksa to “assign members of the criminal investigation police to the case and to formally request the help of international experts in solving the murder.” Sri Lanka was ranked 165th out of 173 countries in the Reporters Without Borders 2008 press freedom index, the lowest ranking of any democratic country, the release added.

Full text of the press release follows:

“Disgraceful” failure to identify those responsible for newspaper editor's murder three months ago<SRILANKA_GENOCIDE_AGAINST TAMIS IN TAMILEELAM

Last three months Srilankan GENOCIDE Government killed more than 6000 innocent Tamil people (mainly kids and women) and up to now they killed over 100 Thousand innocents. now Srilankan Army (SLA) started to use chemical weapons and last week end the used chemical weapons(UN band chemical weapons ) and killed over 1000 people. are you accepting this. NOW SLA trying to killed 300 thousand innocent Tamils who are in the war zone by use chemical weapons within few days. that's why tamils are protesting and requesting to the Canadian Gov and the World to save them from STATE TERRORIST SRILANKAN GOVERNMENT.
PLEASE UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION

He told a Marina beach audience in Madras: “I am told that no such agreement has been signed by any country in the world, at least in this century! It does not have a parallel in the world!”. Absolutely. No other government in the world could have conceived such stupidity. (Readers are requested to please rise up and observe two minutes silence in memory of the agreement).

Mrs.lndira Gandhi was a Prime Minister who learnt politics at herfather's feet, a woman with a clear grasp of issues and the courage of her convictions. Son Rajiv unfortunately, brought from the cockpit of a plane to the serious affairs of a large country's governance, had to depend almost totally on his advisers. Equally unfortunately he selected the wrong kind of advisers, who apparently told him that the job of the IPKF was to disarm “2000 boys” !

THE HINDU which has a habit of over-stretching its journalistic duty, reported as early as July 1988, nine months after the IPKF took on the LTTE, that 2,000 Tigers had been

killed in IPKF operations. So that cancelled the “2,000 boys” that Mr.Gandhi had in mind. Ten years later today, the Colombo Press also gives fancy statistics about Tiger casualties, provided by military spokesmen. There is that frequently quoted and now worn thin saying “Truth is the first first casualty in war”, but why should readers be called upon to put up with a permanent enthronement of falsehood.

Nelson Mandela and the ANC were considered terrorists. Today they are the democratically elected government of South Africa and Canada builds numerous schools and roads and names them after Nelson Mandela.

The LTTE has no doubt carried out violence against the South in the 1980s and 90s. However, if one looks carefully at the timeline of events, it has always been in response to Sri Lankan Army's atrocities against Tamil civillians. If you take a look at the last 2 or 3 years, the LTTE managed to fly aircrafts over heavily gaurded air force bases, naval bases etc and dropped bombs on them. If the LTTE is really only interested in terrorist activities, they could have easily flown these planes over rural towns or even a suburb of Colombo and dropped bombs or crashed the planes causing maximum damage to civillians. Why did they not do it?????? It is time that the world realized that LTTE is only interested in safe-guarding the Tamil nation and are not interested in killing Sinhala masses for the sake of killing.

As for the average Canadian, it is easy for you to say to leave our problems behind. The Tamils are grateful to Canada for giving us the opportunity to live here. We work hard, pay our taxes, provide a labour force and invest in the economy. However, we have also left behind many of our parents, siblings, relatives etc. WE CANNOT TURN OUR BACKS ON THEIR PLIGHT. This is not an issue over choosing allegiance to one country. THIS IS ABOUT RAISING AWARENESS TO THE PLIGHT OF OUR FAMILY.

When Hitler was at his prime, Canadians sent our troops to fight him because a lot of Canadians at that time had relatives back in Europe that they cared about. That is the Canadian way – caring for those less fortunate than us.

The first National Convention of the Tamil United Liberation Front meeting at Pannakam (Vaddukoddai Constituency) on the 14th day of May, 1976, hereby declares that the Tamils of Ceylon by virtue of their great language, their religions, their separate culture and heritage, their history of independent existence as a separate state over a distinct territory for several centuries till they were conquered by the armed might of the European invaders and above all by their will to exist as a separate entity ruling themselves in their own territory, are a nation distinct and apart from Sinhalese and this Convention announces to the world that the Republican Constitution of 1972 has made the Tamils a slave nation ruled by the new colonial masters, the Sinhalese ,who are using the power they have wrongly usurped to deprive the Tamil Nation of its territory, language citizenship, economic life, opportunities of employment and education, thereby destroying all the attributes of nationhood of the Tamil people.
And, while taking note of the reservations in relation to its commitment to the setting up of a separated state of TAMIL EELAM expressed by the Ceylon Workers Congress as a Trade Union of the Plantation Workers, the majority of whom live and work outside the Northern and Eastern areas,
This convention resolves that restoration and reconstitution of the Free, Sovereign, Secular, Socialist State of TAMIL EELAM, based on the right of self determination inherent to every nation, has become inevitable in order to safeguard the very existence of the Tamil Nation in this Country.

This Convention further declares -

that the State of TAMIL EELAM shall consist of the people of the Northern and Eastern provinces and shall also ensure full and equal rights of citizenship of the State of TAMIL EELAM to all Tamil speaking people living in any part of Ceylon and to Tamils of EELAM origin living in any part of the world who may opt for citizenship of TAMIL EELAM.
that the constitution of TAMIL EELAM shall be based on the principle of democratic decentralization so as to ensure the non-domination of any religious or territorial community of TAMIL EELAM by any other section.
that in the state of Tamil Eelam caste shall be abolished and the observance of the pernicious practice of untouchability or inequality of any type based on birth shall be totally eradicated and its observance in any form punished by law.
that TAMIL EELAM shall be a secular state giving equal protection and assistance to all religions to which the people of the state may belong.
that Tamil shall be the language of the State, but the rights of Sinhalese speaking minorities in Tamil Eelam to education and transaction of business in their language shall be protected on a reciprocal basis with the Tamil speaking minorities in the Sinhala State.
that Tamil Eelam shall be a Socialist State wherein the exploitation of man by man shall be forbidden, the dignity of labor shall be recognized, the means of production and distribution shall be subject to public ownership and control while permitting private enterprise in these branches within limit prescribed by law, economic development shall be on the basis of socialist planning and there shall be a ceiling on the total wealth that any individual of family may acquire.
This Convention directs the Action Committee of the TAMIL UNITED LIBERATION FRONT to formulate a plan of action and launch without undue delay the struggle for winning the sovereignty and freedom of the Tamil Nation;
And this Convention calls upon the Tamil Nation in general and the Tamil youth in particular to come forward to throw themselves fully into the sacred fight for freedom and to flinch not till the goal of a sovereign state of TAMIL EELAM is reached.

Chemical Attacks by frustrated military for holding 25 sqkm for two months
-Thanks to the country supplied toxic gas.
Beginning of bloodpath on the beaches, Tamil ethnicity is facing extinction-
Thanks to international community

Tamil Eelam-
Thanks to Rajapakse bros, war criminals

Canadians know clearly that coservatives uses Tamils Issue to play dirty politics with other parties. But keep in mind There is 100s of tamils being killed everyday by Srilankan state Terrorist. Is our current Canadian government support State Terrorism??? Are they support use of cluster bombs and chemical bombs on civilians rather than freedom fight??? Tamils are only asking for their own political rights which has been refused by Srilankan governments for decades, nothing else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Tigers are not legitimate in the eyes of the government, but they are legitimate and powerful in the eyes of the people,”
R. Cheran, http://www.ottawacitizen.com/News/Wellington+st…

This is a perfect illustration of why politicians, whatever their stripe, should not actively court the support of various ethnic groups. The politics of countries of origin can be a hazardous tightrope to walk.

As an immigrant myself, I recognize the hardships immigrants have to deal with. They have to learn a new language, adapt to a new way of life, and so on. However, once they emigrate, they must leave their baggage behind. They should accept the laws of THIS country, work hard and become successful contributors to THIS country.

If your loyalties are divided, if your heart is still back there, by all means go back and do what you can do to help your cause. But do it from THERE, not from HERE.

And don’t import your country’s problems. Use the United Nations or other international forums to address your grievances, not Canadian city streets.

You left your country of origin, seeking a better way of life, and you’ve found it. Canada has generously welcomed you … and now you want to exploit that hospitality?

If you can take ‘your’ problem to Afghanistan and Sudan (Talisman) we have every right to bring our problem to the west, for the same purpose – to resolve. It wouldn’t be happening if the wimpy UN can do its duty correctly. Remember, if the backward homelands world over are not supplied with forward homelands such as yours we wouldn’t be on this soil.

The Tamil Tigers are the one and only hope for the Tamils living in Sri Lanka. The Terrorist Sri lankan Government continues killing of innocent Tamils in Vanni area using Banned weapons (Cluster bombs and Chemical weapons) inspite of repeated requests from the World to stop the war and go for negotiated political settlement. The Sri Lankan Governemnt only intention is to wipe out the Tamil Tigers and make the Island a Sinhala Buddhist Country. The Tamils World over have recognized The LTTE as the only representative for their cause.

They're not helping their cause by blocking our streets. They can go to Sri Lanka and try it there.
Our Country can't go take over the Sri Lankan government so what are they proposing be done about their “home” land?

It certainly rings home loud and clear our immigration needs to be severely overhauled. Tamils come here and get our citizenship then expect we should fight their wars for them. It's time to set a few things straight but no government party will act. If the Conservatives make a move the Liberals will go the opposite way for votes, these Canadians of convenience are well aware of it and that's the reason many of them choose this country to come to.
With our Trudeau Charter and multicultural boondoggle it's a real magnet.

It is truly comical to see Mr. Taylor holding a terrorist organization to act in a high regard; yet doesn’t expect the same from a democratically elected country such as Sri Lanka – to act in a civilized and democratic manner towards all its citizens.

Double standards are clearly in action.

Remember one thing Mr. Taylor, when you turn a blind eye towards all the act of violence committed against the Tamils and support the Sri Lankan government by saying nothing – you too knowingly become a complicit in the murders and as a result have the blood of the innocent on your hands.

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SINCE 1978 LTTE sacified inTAMILEELAM_ SRILANKA.

TWO NATIONS IN ONE LAND

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They are not Tamil Tigers……they are Tamil Canadians who concerned about their relatives back home and seeking for help.

sir,
Your comments are very similar to stewwert bell from national post and very similar to the sri lankan Embassy comments the Rwandan conflict was a genocide so if 250,000 tamils get killed then would you start talking about is this genocide ? SIr if you have got disenfranchised because you came to this counrty 150 years back and if your were made illitrate overnight and if you had to get 4 A’s to attend the univercity and others can attend the univercity wuth 4C and your non violent protest is met with violence and if you are a Tamil YOUTH YOUR CHANCE OF DIAPPEARING IS HIGHER THAN 75% please tell me you must be christ if you turn your other cheek Please also remember the Sri Lankan govt had killed 20,000 sinhalese youth in 1971 and another 30,000 in 1984

Dear Tamils, Our Srilankan Sinhala propaganda agents could write so many fabricated stories/comments under faulty name in order to create hate against tamils in Canada and to hide the truth about close door Genocide of Tamils in SL. under “Terrorist” Lable. Please don’t get anger or loose your tember. Since Our strugle has legitimate reasons and we have rights to express our point as Canadian Tax payers, please only concentrate to express the reallity/History of Tamils Strugle for the freedom from Srilankan State Terrorism.

Sri Lanka has chemical weapons. Bombs the civilians with cluster bombs. Provoked and did nothing about the riots(1958,1977,1983). The Sri Lankan army massacared thousands and rejected any international investigations. Now they have concentration camps to restrict the movements of Tamils. Tamil women and under aged girls were raped by Sri Lankan army. Yet Canada maintains it diplomatic relationship and funds Sri Lanka, where Sri Lanka uses that money to buy more weapons to kill Tamils. So who is the terrorist here? If this is not genocide then what? Random killing of tamils for no reason is called what? If Canada should not intervene in this matter, why does Canada has an Sri Lankan Embassy in Ottawa? If LTTE is labeled as terrorist for their suicide bombing tactics, then should the Sri Lankan government. Aren't we witnessing a double standard here?

Is the site where you found evidence that LTTE may conduct chemical warfare?

1) http://defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20090312_05

If that's true, then please refer the following website in which the Photoshopped image is analyzed:

2)http://www.sibernews.com/200903122233/

Instead of throwing accusations and making false statements, you should tae a closer look at what the SL government is really doing!

The quotes from MacKenzie Institute unfortunately are not the real truth and I wonder if they had interviewed any of the Tamil Canadians before releasing some of the distorted facts. I have a few questions

1. Where were all these protestors when the Conservatives banned the LTTE? Why didn’t they get on to the streets of Toronto and Ottawa?
2. Why are they now on the streets waving the flags of LTTE?

These are the questions that you need to find answers for before drawing conclusions that make us Tamil Canadians feel like Terrorists. This is how the racist Sinhala governments made us feel in that country and is doing the same to this minute. Under the pretext of “War on Terror” they are committing GENOCIDE on all Tamils. This is not only happening in the war zone but in all parts of the country. Here are the examples within a period of less than 24 hours.
Apr 09 10:37 14 Tamil youths arrested in Colombo
Apr 09 04:37 26 Tamils arrested in Ampaa’rai
Apr 09 04:25 SLA shelling kills ICRC Team Leader in Vanni
Apr 08 20:49 SLA attacks kill 129 civilians, 282 wounded in ‘sa.

Mind you the first 2 reports are from the so called Sinhala areas. It is absolutely wrong to say the killings of Tamils in 1983 were a plot of the LTTE. I was born in Colombo during the 1958 riots lived through the 1977 riots and personally witnessed killings and burning of Tamils in 1983 riots after which we had no choice but had to leave when my home was regularly search by the police in the middle of the night and we sensed eminent danger.

This Canada, that I call my home gave me refuge and a sense of belonging for the first time in my life. I did not come for monetary reasons or a good life but purely for political reasons. I cried the day I became a Canadian Citizen and I still choke when my National Anthem “O” Canada in sung. I am a proud Tamil Canadian who also has a son in the armed forces.

But, when the people I left behind die and are suffering and facing what I faced years ago, I have no choice but to turn towards my country to ask for help. I need my Prime Minister to intervene and I need my country to help.

This I will ask not only for my Tamil brothers and sisters but also for any other people who face the same situation. We, Canadians were not there for the Tutsi’s of Rwanda, and turned away the ship of Jews who sought refuge and ended in the gas chambers. We said it won’t happen again, but it is happening right now and my Canada needs to act now.

These people Ltte Supporters They want to protect Ltte….Don't worry any-one we are going to win the war…No one can't stop…Im not angry with Tamil people…I have lot of tamil friends…Tamil people are very nice and good!!! But Ltte ruin there lives!!! Don't support Ltte my friends…They are the major problem for our country…We all lived peacefully in our motherland!!!!! we all are Srilankans we all did wrong things in the past but as a humans we all can get to gether and make this world peaceful Place

The quotes from MacKenzie Institute unfortunately are not the real truth and I wonder if they had interviewed any of the Tamil Canadians before releasing some of the distorted facts. I have a few questions

1. Where were all these protestors when the Conservatives banned the LTTE? Why didn’t they get on to the streets of Toronto and Ottawa?
2. Why are they now on the streets waving the flags of LTTE?

These are the questions that you need to find answers for before drawing conclusions that make us Tamil Canadians feel like Terrorists. This is how the racist Sinhala governments made us feel in that country and is doing the same to this minute. Under the pretext of “War on Terror” they are committing GENOCIDE on all Tamils. This is not only happening in the war zone but in all parts of the country. Here are the examples within a period of less than 24 hours.
Apr 09 10:37 14 Tamil youths arrested in Colombo
Apr 09 04:37 26 Tamils arrested in Ampaa’rai
Apr 09 04:25 SLA shelling kills ICRC Team Leader in Vanni
Apr 08 20:49 SLA attacks kill 129 civilians, 282 wounded in ‘sa.

Mind you the first 2 reports are from the so called Sinhala areas. It is absolutely wrong to say the killings of Tamils in 1983 were a plot of the LTTE. I was born in Colombo during the 1958 riots lived through the 1977 riots and personally witnessed killings and burning of Tamils in 1983 riots after which we had no choice but had to leave when my home was regularly search by the police in the middle of the night and we sensed eminent danger.

This Canada, that I call my home gave me refuge and a sense of belonging for the first time in my life. I did not come for monetary reasons or a good life but purely for political reasons. I cried the day I became a Canadian Citizen and I still choke when my National Anthem “O” Canada in sung. I am a proud Tamil Canadian who also has a son in the armed forces.

But, when the people I left behind die and are suffering and facing what I faced years ago, I have no choice but to turn towards my country to ask for help. I need my Prime Minister to intervene and I need my country to help.

This I will ask not only for my Tamil brothers and sisters but also for any other people who face the same situation. We, Canadians were not there for the Tutsi’s of Rwanda, and turned away the ship of Jews who sought refuge and ended in the gas chambers. We said it won’t happen again, but it is happening right now and my Canada needs to act now.

I wonder if Jim “Tamil Tiger” Karygiannis and some of the other Toronto MPs would prevail on a future Prime Minister Ignatieff to remove the LTTE and the World Tamil movement from the terror watch list. Just what is the Liberal Party's stand on the LTTE's status as a terror group? I notice when the LTTE supporters were clogging the streets of Toronto, many, many signs wanted the ban removed. They'll get nowhere with Harper, but maybe Iggy will help them? Hmmm…

Before the birth of the LTTE, our kind were brutally tortured, raped and murdered and nothing was done about it. We were discriminated againts for years. The LTTE were formed to stand up to the brutality of the Sri Lankan government. You say that the LTTE are the inventors of the suicide bomb and that justifies them being called terrorists? What about the invention of the atomic bomb which kills thousands and thousands of people? What about Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The LTTE stand up for the nonsense of the Sri Lankan government and that is why we support them. The Sri Lankan government is currently not allowing media to come into their country and why is that? The media would unveil the lies and brutility of the government.

“I would venture the Sinhalese earn more sympathy simply because they have made much less nuisance of themselves.”

The Sinhalese haven’t had to leave Sri Lanka by the thousands as the Tamils have. Most Sinhalese still live normal lives in Sri Lanka. I am a Tamil Canadian, and I pay taxes and contribute to this society, but that doesn’t mean I should forget about family and friends who are stuck in Sri Lanka who cannot afford to get out. This is not a silly gang war over property – the Sri Lankan government shells hospitals, schools, and so-called safe zones in the North repeatedly. I am not an LTTE supporter, and many of the Ottawa protesters aren’t either. Can’t you just be a Tamil rallying for Tamil civilians?

For those posters asking why these Tamils didn’t protest over the death of Sri Lankans, Tamils ARE supposed to be Sri Lankan, but are not treated as such by the Sri Lankan government. Further, the Tamils did not provoke the ethnic riots against them. The 1983 violence against ethnic Tamil CIVILIANS happened because the LTTE killed 11 member of the SL army. In retaliation for this, over 3000 Tamil CIVILIANS were killed, while the government largely took no action until a few days later, when it proceeded to set up shoddy refugee camps for displaced Tamils, just like it is doing now in the North.

I have family who have tried to get into the government run internment camps to find other family members. They are not allowed in, and noone is allowed out. The camp is surrounded by military personnel. This is just a taste of how the Tamils will be treated once the LTTE is defeated and the SL government ushers in the time of ‘peace’ it keeps blathering on about. This is not a black and white case of a legitimate government fighting a terrorist group. While both sides commit atrocities, the government successfully got Western nations to blacklist the other side, while it kills innocents in the name of its ‘war on terror.’ This is a government where the president puts his family members in important positions, the army commander makes racist comments against Sri Lanka’s minorities, and the president is politically indebted to Sinhala Buddhist extremist parties. All the minorities, not just the Tamils, have enough reason to be concerned about how they will be treated once this phase of fighting is over.

Mr.Stephen Taylor and the rest,
What is the model of Canada? the mosaic. We are allowed to define ourselves with our homeland identity plus our canadian identity. We are allowed to hold two passports. Then why are you neglecting the plight of the Tamils? They have tried everything possible! The government seems not to listen and care! If one day you get a phone call saying your sister is missing, the next day saying your cousin is raped and the other day saying your uncle and his family is dead and all this is done by the government that is supposed to protect you, how would you feel? Forget the tigers for a second. What is a government? an entity that is supposed to protect its citizens and they are killing their own people. THE GOVERNMENT IS USING CLUSTER BOMBS, CHEMICAL WEAPONS! All the human rights organizations such as the amnesty international has stated that Sri Lanka is one of the worst states when it comes to human rights violations. If they are fair why has the government banned journalists and human rights organizations from going to the tamil region? they have killed tamil M.Ps in churches! these are not fairytales. These are facts that even many human rights groups have cited. Mr.Taylor, please before you cite any sort of information you should definately research on its validity which i’m afraid you did not do at all!

This is fiction and not facts. Here he is trying to rewrite the history of the conflict to please the Sri Lankan government. Writer has completely omitted number of discrimination by legislation and administration against the minority Tamils, two important abrogations of the signed agreements for devolution of powers to Tamils. Writer is conveniently ignoring several pogroms before 1983 where several Tamils were butchered and their properties destroyed. Sri Lankan government propaganda machinery have been trying their best to connect LTTE with Alqueda to get the international support, but failed. Here at last they were able to get what they wanted from this institute.

This war has caused an irreversible damage between Tamils and Sinhalese communities. You could see the hate and dislike even in the comments here. There is no chance for a united SriLanka now. It will be better to have two Nations in peace than one nation in conflict. You cannot bring peace by force.

It's not the Tamil Tigers protesting but it is the people who are affected by the Sri Lankan state sponsored genocide of the Tamils. McKenzie institute is(or was) a think tank that spent all their (oh no) all his time in a hotel room listening to the Sri lankan state propagandists. Please do not be ignorant of the thousands of Tamil civilians killed by the 99.99% Sinhala dominated Sri Lankan armed forces just this year. Canada is a democracy and we do not have any war loads to control people! Think why the Tamils support the Tamil Tigers. Please do your diligence before being bought into the Sri Lankan government propaganda. Think why 1 million out of the 3.5 million Tamils escaped Sri Lanka and the answer is easy to follow.

The Tamil Tigers protesters in Ottawa demand the Canadian government ” do something”. I agree. They feel they should be able to boldly display their terrorist sympathies with impunity, we may be obliged to endure this impudent abuse of our generosity in foolishly embracing the intolerant and welcoming them to Canada with open arms, but we are not exactly powerless. The RCMP should compile a list of terrorist sympathizers and we should ban them from any government employment, they should be flagged and denied Canadian passports and moreover same lists should be provided to Immigration Canada to deny terrorist sympathizers eligibility to sponsor family members ( presumably other terrorist sympathizers) for immigration to Canada. Then we will see how boldly they wish to display their Tamil Tiger sympathies.

All we seem to hear from Tamil contributors is a rehashing of their historical grievances, their persecution and oppression by the Sinhalese majority in Ceylon/ Sri Lanka( and prior to that subjugation at he hands of European invaders) and how their struggle for an exclusive ethnic enclave is just and noble, by any and all means, worthy of support by the world community. I am sure that the Sinhalese could provide us with a similar list of grievances and historic justification for their policies, and that's my point, ethnic politics is a quagmire and we shouldn't be picking favourites, and certainly not on the basis of which community has larger numerical representation in Canada.

Note that these exclusionist and ethnically intolerant grievance mongers will opportunistically and hypocritically use ” Canadian multiculturalism” to their benefit, as they more often than not apparently do, when claiming the hospitality, protection and benefits of Canadian citizenship in pursuit of hostile foreign objectives ( civil war, destabilization, ethnic cleansing and ethnic enclaves, overthrow of foreign governments) diametrically opposed to the policies of that country which generously gave them refuge and citizenship. If they can't peacefully coexist with one other culture, one other ethnic neighbour on a small island without engaging in mutual slaughter, why in the world would we believe such people are worthy of consideration for Canadian citizenship.

The name says it all , they are “Tamil” Tigers, that is an ethnically based political organization, terrorist to boot, all means justify the end, and that end is what, to seize a portion of Sri Lankan territory , if not Brampton, Ontario as Tamil homeland and expel the Sinhalese oppressors. The name says it all, the objective is purely ethnic politics, the objective an ethnic enclave, no Sinhalese need apply, and why this regressive objective meets with the support of Jack Layton and The NDP is beyond me. Next the NDP will be picking favourites between the Hutu and the Tutsis, well they would if there was some immigrant community of one or the other and some electoral gain to be had, but that tells you a lot about principled politics. No the Tamil Tigers are not Nelson Mandela and the ANC, Jack Layton to the contrary, the program tells you everything, the ANC was not some ethnically exclusive political organization but was broader based and even had support among South African whites.

There is some kneejerk belief by the Jack Laytons of this world that secessionist political movements are inherently ” progressive”, that every ethnic group is entitled to its own enclave where they rule the roost and call the shots, that this is a worthy objective, that the Tamils are entitled to carve themselves and exclusionist homeland, so if he is so committed to the breakup and partition of Sri Lanka, why doesn't he apply this wisdom to Canada and fuse with the Bloc. He was pretty much there already with his coalition adventure. No, every secessionist movement is not politically or historically justified. Apply this yardstick to the American civil war. There the secessionists were the regressives, supported slavery, and the state power that militarily fought the secession and breakup of the Ameican Union and in so doing denied the ” self determination” of slaveowner secessionists was historically in the right.

So why again should the government of Canada support the demand and the struggle for some Tamil homeland carved out of Sri Lanka? And for the Tamil Tiger supporters, fervently protesting in Ottawa for their right to an exclusive ethnic enclave overseas, if such is their true objective and they are prepared to go to any and all lengths to obtain this, including slaughter of Sinhalese co-occupants, what in the world are they doing holding Canadian citizenship.

The quotes from MacKenzie Institute unfortunately are not the real truth and I wonder if they had interviewed any of the Tamil Canadians before releasing some of the distorted facts. I have a few questions

1. Where were these protestors when the Conservatives banned the LTTE? Why didn’t they get on to the streets of Toronto and Ottawa ?
2. Why are they now on the streets waving the flags of LTTE?

These are the questions that you need to find answers for before drawing conclusions that make us Tamil Canadians feel like Terrorists. This is how the racist Sinhala governments made us feel in that country and is doing the same to this minute. Under the pretext of “War on Terror” they are committing GENOCIDE on all Tamils. This is not only happening in the war zone but in all parts of the country. Here are the examples within a period of less than 24 hours.

Apr 09 10:37 14 Tamil youths arrested in Colombo
Apr 09 04:37 26 Tamils arrested in Ampaa’rai
Apr 09 04:25 SLA shelling kills ICRC Team Leader in Vanni
Apr 08 20:49 SLA attacks kill 129 civilians, 282 wounded in 'sa.

Mind you the first 2 reports are from the so called Sinhala areas. It is absolutely incorrect to say the killings of Tamils in 1983 were a plot of the LTTE. I was born in Colombo during the 1958 riots lived through the 1977 riots and personally witnessed killings and burning of Tamils in 1983 riots after which we had no choice but had to leave when my home was regularly search by the police in the middle of the night and we sensed eminent danger.

This Canada , that I call my home gave me refuge and a sense of belonging for the first time in my life. I did not come for monetary reasons or a good life but purely for political reasons. I cried the day I became a Canadian Citizen and I still choke when my National Anthem “O Canada “is sung. I am a proud Tamil Canadian and don't want to be known or called a Sri Lankan. I am also a proud mother of a son who after graduating has chosen to serve in the Canadian armed forces and takes great pride and dedication in serving his country.

But, when the people I left behind die and are suffering and face the same danger and feeling of helplessness what I faced 25 years ago, I have no choice but to turn towards my country to ask for help. I need my Prime Minister to intervene and I need my country to help.

This I will ask this not only for my Tamil brothers and sisters but also for any other human being who may face the same situation. We, Canadians were not there for the Tutsi’s of Rwanda , and turned away a ship of Jews who sought refuge and ended their lives in the gas chambers. We said it won’t happen again, but it is happening right now and my Canada needs to act now.

I thank my Foreign Minister for standing up and not letting a foreigner dictate terms to show how this country should run its affairs. I worked as a volunteer for a PC candidate in the last elections not only because I had great respect for him but also because I came into this country when it was governed by a Conservative – Mr. Mulroney another great Canadian I respect

I don’t understand what you are talking about!
So, you support killing the Tamil civilians. You talk nonsense here. We live in Canada and we do not support any such mentality that supports the Tamil genocide.

Sri Lankan State Terrorism
Part 1

The Violence against Tamils and Muslims started in 1915, with Anti-Tamil riots, Ethnic Cleansing of the land, and with the burning of the Jaffna Public Library. This was the largest South Asian library at the time. The Library was home to irreplaceable Tamil documents and Artefacts from the Tamil Civilization. The Tamils only wanted their opinions heard in the Government, but the current violence made it impossible. Due to this, they demanded autonomy. The Debate and negotiations for an independent homeland went on for 25 years, but the Government was unwilling to grant the Tamil minority their wishes. Aggravated by the Politics of the Island, Tamil Youth started forming Radical groups, particularly in Jaffna. Negotiations and Talks had failed in the past; the Tamil groups now favoured violence as a means to get their message across. Large Numbers of militant groups were formed, one of the dominating ones were the “Tamil New Tigers” which were a group of University Students led by Velupillai Prabhakaran. With Enough people and the confidence to take on the Government, the Tamil New Tigers started their operations with assassinations of Minor Political Officials, as well as bank robberies to fuel and fund their cause. In 1976 the Tamil New Tigers teamed up with several Militant groups and Formed “The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam”.

The Tamil People now had a base to fight for their separate homeland, with the Discipline and success of LTTE, plus Prabhakaran’s leadership, the group became more thriving than any other militant group on the planet. For the next few years, they would be the main Tamil Force in the Civil War.

The Government in response to the hostilities that were formed, stretched out its military presence in the North. The Tamil Groups did not favour this and on July 25th 1983 the Tamil Tigers and other militant groups killed 13 Sri Lankan Troops that were stationed in Jaffna. The Sinhalese in retribution to the attack gathered in mobs at the cemetery where the soldiers were being buried and started their massacre of Tamils; burning and looting their properties. It took the Sri Lankan Government 3 days to stop the attack, in which the Sinhalese dominated police force and military stood by and did nothing but watch. It was alleged that the decision to kill as many Tamils as possible was made by former President Jayawardene to “teach a lesson” to minority Tamils. The Black July attack is estimated at a loss of 3000 Tamil lives, and more than 18,000 Tamil owned houses and business destroyed. Restitution was to be paid but since 1983, no money or criminal proceedings have been issued by the Sri Lankan Government. Since the Tamils were now scared to live Sri Lanka, thousands of them decided to flea the island to India, Australia, Europe and Canada. This was the beginning of the Tamil Diaspora.
The Black July attack is what sparked the Civil War; when peace talks in 1987 failed, the country was at full-scale war. The Government pushed LTTE fighters to the northern city of Jaffna, and in April 1987 the conflict exploded with both sides engaging in a bloody conflict. At this time the “Black Tigers” were established; the world’s most elite suicide squadron. They carried out their first attack on a SLA base killing more than 40 soldiers.
India was worried about the Tamil’s dilemma in 1990, and the Indian state of Tamil Nadu showed great sympathy for the discrimination that was going on. So they urged their Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to do something. India got involved in the peace process by sending in the “Indian Peace Keeping Force” and helping in the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace accord in 1987. This allowed Tamil demands to be met and allowed for the official status for their Language. The only problem was that the Peace accord stated that the LTTE had to disarm. When the LTTE refused, the IPKF tried to disarm them by force and ended up in a full scale battle with the Tamils which ironically they had come over to protect. The Sri Lankan government encouraged India to leave the island, and in 1991 they did.
From 1990-2001, The Government sent their air forces to bomb areas belonging to the Tamil Minority; attacking hospitals, houses, schools, churches, and temples. They did this with knowledge that the Tamils would flea from there, seeking shelter. The LTTE named this phase of the war as Eelam War 2. The Government and the LTTE played a number of offensives against each other with the SLA dominant in numbers, and the LTTE using their Black Tigers at their disposal. The Island was being torn apart by war, until Norway and the European Union got involved.
The Sri Lankan Government was criticised for its “War for Peace” campaigned and with new elections, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe won under a pro-peace platform. Sri Lanka was now ready for peace, and in 2002 Norway brokered a ceasefire that both sides agreed on. For some time the Island was at peace, but Tamil discrimination was still going on in the background. Violence started escalating again starting in 2005. Claymore mine attacks and clashes between the Navy and Sea Tigers (Navel Fleet of the LTTE, left more than 250 people dead. Small “eye for an eye” attacks continued with both sides attacking each other through navy, ground and air.
State Terrorism
In July 2006 the Government of Sri Lanka blamed the LTTE for blocking a sluice gate, and without notice the Sri Lankan Air Force sent multiply Air strikes on LTTE positions. The Political Leader of the LTTE announced an end to the ceasefire. With no retaliation the SLA went for another attack on the town of Muttur killing 30 Tamils, and throwing grenades into crowds of Tamils seeking shelter in a church. A few days later the Government carried out a number of Air Raids on Tamil territory, killing 61 Tamil school girls. The world soon started to find out what was going on in Sri Lanka, so the Sri Lankan Government tried to disguise the attack and clamed that they attacked Child Soldiers. UNICEF later proved that the children were not soldiers, making the Sri Lankan government lose credibility. A few days later, 15 French Aid workers were found shot dead in the town of Muttur. The Sri Lankan Government blamed the tigers for this attack, but later sources indicated that the area in which the Aid workers were stationed was under control of the SLA, the Government could no longer be trusted.
Chemmani Mass Graves
During the Trail of a Sri Lankan soldier(who had testified against raping a Tamil school girl)the existence of “mass graves” were revealed at a site located in Jaffna . Amnesty International was prompted by this new discovery, and urged the Government to perform a criminal investigation into this matter. As a result of Amnesty’s involvement, credible evidence of 300-400 bodies of “disappeared” Tamils was found at the grave site.
Amnesty International claimed that the disappeared Tamils were part of a military operation taken on by the Sri Lankan Government. The Disappearances were reported in Government controlled areas, with white vans leaving the scene. Since 1990 more than 12,221 Tamils have been reported as missing with no investigations done by the Government, making Sri Lanka 2nd highest in the world for disappearances next to Iraq. More recently in the city of Killinochchi civilians have found 50 more skeletons with nylon ropes tied to their hands. Reports have found out that, the bodies of the disappeared were Non-Combatant Tamils that were taken into custody, and either shot or tortured to death.

Rape of Tamil Women
Since 1983 the Sri Lankan Army has been responsible for number of gangbangs and rapes done to Tamil women. Females ranging from little school girls to 40 year old women have been reported as raped, tortured to death or blown up by grenade. The women that go through this problem often enlist into the Birds of Freedom (Female Branch of the LTTE), and hope to one day take revenge on their attackers.

Censorship/Embargo
The Government of Sri Lanka does not want the media or foreign aid to get to the Tamil minority in the north. Reporters or journalist are always declined access to Tamil controlled areas, where all the discrimination, and war torn lives are at. During the Tsunami a few years ago, foreign aid was blocked by the Sri Lankan Army towards the badly hit east. The Government made excuses that the foreign aid would be taken by the LTTE, but as we now know the LTTE were in full co-operation in reaching aid to the victims. Its took a good week for Aid to reach 350,000 Tamil victims in Wanni, while the Singhalese in Colombo had foreign aid in the first few days. To this day, The Government has placed an Embargo on food reaching Wanni district. Reports have been filed by the Red Cross of the Sri Lankan Army assaulting fisherman that try to reach essential commodities such as paper, bicycle parts and clothing to the particular district.
With the continuing of violence and allegations, the 2002 ceasefire continues to be null and void. Leaving the country for another full scale war, and the LTTE’s promised “Final War”.
T.Douglas

keep your problems in your homeland. period! we all to Canada so we can be free and peaceful so lets keep it that way. The rest of us Canadians do not want to get involved in a battle that is not ours. Why must we back a terrorist group???

Why must you Tamils disrupt everyone's lives here just because there is a war from where you came from? to me…its selfish and nothing more then that. Just a cry for attention. We all have our own lives to worry about and our own families. Im sure there are thousands of Canadians from other countries as well who have problems and have had family members killed but at least they dont push it on to others. These protests are wrong and should be stopped.

DA: “What is the model of Canada? the mosaic. We are allowed to define ourselves with our homeland identity plus our canadian identity. We are allowed to hold two passports.”

Yes. The Canadian model has been defined as the mosaic, unlike the Americans' melting pot. That was Canada's big mistake — accepting that immigrants “are allowed to define [themselves] with [their] homeland identity.” Actually, this has only been the case since Pierre Trudeau's Liberals came to power in the late '60s and saw the mosaic/multicultural model you describe as a perfect way to gain votes for their Party.

Before Trudeau, immigrants (my ancestors included, who arrived on Canadian shores over 200 years ago) came to Canada to forge a Canadian identity along with the many immigrants of other nationalities. During the two world wars, where they fought together for Canada's and the Commonwealth's democratic freedoms, a common Canadian identity was forged from the many diverse nationalities. This built a vibrant Canadian democracy, which worked for most Canadians.

Now, Canada has been Balkanized, and it seems that we have become an increasingly fractured nation. This is not encouraging from the point of view of a healthy democracy that works for the majority of its people.

I am a Canadian who has only one passport, and am curious about what is gained by allowing Canadian citizens who benefit from our democratic freedoms and benefits TWO passports? This suggests that Canadians holding two passports can pick and choose to whom their allegiance will be at any given time. How does this arrangement benefit Canada and Canadians who hold only a Canadian passport?

Unfortunately, we've seen how easy it is to take advantage of Canada's hospitality when hyphenated-Canadians hold two passports. Think of the thousands of Lebanese who were evacuated from war-torn Lebanon at great expense to the Canadian taxpayers, who then turned around and returned to Lebanon just a few months later where they were able to receive Canadian benefits which would never be invested in the Canadian economy.

Something's terribly wrong with this picture. Put the shoe on the other foot: I'm a two-passport holding Sri Lankan who can come and go as I like, but prefer to live in the other country whose passport I hold while still pulling on Sri Lankan benefits while not investing much, if anything, into the Sri Lankan economy. As a one-passport-holding Sri Lankan how would you feel about increasing numbers of your tax dollars going to Sri Lankans of convenience who are hardly ever in your country?

Issues that need to be seriously thought about …

First of all Ronald. Dont act like this is your country! This is Canada, everybody has their rights and freedoms. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE AND CHILDREN ARE DYING EVERY SINGLE DAY! DO YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO SEE KIDS WHO ARE SUPPOSE TO BE RUNNING AROUND, YET THEIR LYING THEIR BLEEDING TO DEATH,WITH NO HELP WHAT SO EVER. DONT TALK SHIT WHEN YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW IT FEELS TO SEE THESE THINGS. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW IT FEELS TO LOSE SOMEONE YOU LOVE OVER WAR. THESE PEOPLE ARE DYING EACH DAY, INNOCENT CHILDREN WHO HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. CHILDREN WHO ARE ONLY 1-12YEARS OLD. THINK BEFORE YOU TALK.

Deal all,

This is a newly released Tamil Eelam Freedom song. Please listen and forward it to your friends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab75HCokprU

இது புதிதாக வெளியிடப்பட்ட தமிழீழம் விடுதலைக் கீதம். இந்தப் பாடலைக் கேட்ட பின்னர் உங்கள் நன்பர்களுக்கும் அனுப்பி வைக்கவும்.

ந‌ன்றி.

I am really sorry for the Tamil Canadians who disturbed you with their protests. Sorry, that they have shouted into your deaf ears. Sorry that they delayed you for your appointment when they blocked the road. You must be a very self centered person. I don’t think you have too many friends or family. Are you really a Canadian? Canadians are very sympathetic people. They have helped people all around the world in their freedom struggles. They helped to bring peace in Cyprus, South Africa, Ireland, Rwanda, Kosovo, Haiti and many more countries. They are well known for their peace keeping. We are hoping that they will do the same thing in SriLanka. We want our Prime Minister Stephen Harper to take action against the Genocide of Tamils in SriLanka. Is it too much for us to hope for it?

Sri Lankan Government uses Chemical Weapons in Vanni (Northern part of Sri Lanka) Warfront, WWW urges immediate dispatch of independent observers for inquiry into war crimes
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Initial results of Independent investigations conducted by “War Without Witness” confirms that Sri Lankan Government uses Chemical Weapons in Vanni (Northern Part of Sri Lanka) war front both on civilians and its enemy combatants. Two victims were examined by a qualified independent doctor in Vanni ‘Safe Zone’ on 05th April and the initial results have been peer-reviewed by an experienced doctor in United Kingdom.
Since the Government of Sri Lanka has banned access for all the Independent monitors, Humanitarian Workers including UN and the media, the combat zone is being isolated from the out side world, War Without Witness regrets that a comprehensive forensic/chemical analysis report could not be produced at this point of time.

War Without Witness urgently urge silent partners of Sri Lankan Government’s war on innocent Tamil civilians including United States of America, India, United Kingdom, China, Japan, Norway, Australia and United Nations to immediately dispatch independent observers to the war zone and ensure the safety of civilians by way of an immediate ceasefire and independent inquiry into this war crime. War Without Witness urgently urge independent organisations like Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), US Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, UKs Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) and all 186 OPCW Member States to immediately dispatch independent observers to the war zone and ensure the safety of civilians by way of an immediate ceasefire and independent inquiry into this war crime.

Extracts of Medical/Chemical Report

Chemical Substances found on the wounds are, 1) Triethanolamine (C6H15NO3)
2) Phosgene (CCl2O)

Interview with those victims’ leads to the conclusion that these are type of Mustard Gas attack delivered via high explosive rocket launchers and aerial bombing. Some of the observations among the victims are ‘high vomiting’, ‘mustard-coloured blisters’, ‘closed throats’, ‘breathing difficulty’ and ‘extreme pain’.

Photographic Evidence of sample wounds

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Executive Director,
War Without Witness

First, thank you for writing a news on Tamils. Second, your understanding of the Tamils’ struggle is wrong.
If you write something such as this, you should know the facts and real history on both sides. Please go to this link to gain knowledge about what had happened before 1976 and the reason for LTTE’s formation which you somehow forgot to mention here.
http://tamilnation.org/tamileelam/chronology.htm
Of course, you will finally understand this won’t be found anywhere else other than in a pro-tamil media because Sinhalese has cleverly wiped out all sources and evidences about the facts and true situation there. (Go to year 1981 on this chronology) There is genocide on Tamils for more than 60 years by the Sri Lankan government, learn from these history or don’t write false information.

Excuse me! you Ignorant peice of shit! It’s clear that you have no idea what you are even talking about, so maybe you should read acouple of things before talking out of your ass!!! Don’t just say somethign to say-make sense fuckin asshole. Tamil tigers are people who are fighting for a cause and that is more than I can say for fuckin government officials in this fuckin country who sits on thier asses and do nothing else but waste millions of dollars on useless crap!! More power to these people who are going out and protesting and disrupting traffic!!!! Fuckers-you can’t stand alittle bit of traffic but there are people all over the world who are dying for no reason at all. LIVE WITH IT OR DON’T GO OUTSIDE OR GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM!

To those Tamil protesters naively questioning why their protests of human rights abuses by the government of Sri Lanka don’t elicit greater sympathy, here’s a clue. You are not doing much for your credibility marching under the banners of the Tamil Tigers, a banned terrorist organization , according to the laws of Canada and most other civilized countries, currently waging war with the government of Sri Lanka. The Tigers have been condemned by the UN for abuses and war crimes against Sri Lankan civilians on its part. It doesn’t give you the moral high ground.

The government of Canada is not a pawn to be used by the Tamil Tigers for their own purposes, in pursuit of their own objectives. Now that civil war is engaged between Tamil and Sinhalese communities and the Tigers are engaged in armed struggle to overthrow or destabilize the existing government and carve themselves an ethnic enclave, it makes it that much more difficult to distinguish between claims of persecution and human rights abuses and legitimate military response by existing government to defend its existence. The Tamil Tigers are certainly not innocent in this respect, and what’s that saying about those that live in glass houses.

Don’t you find it incongrous that you are preaching the virtues of multiculturalism in Canada, but pursuing narrow ethnic exclusionist political objectives overseas. It certainly addresses the issue of credibility, and where your true beliefs lie. We were generous enough to grant you refuge and freedom from that persecution you allege is widespread in your former homeland. Don’t abuse that hospitality by using your current refuge as a base of operations from which you continue to wage war against those for which you continue to hold historic grievances.

Claims of persecution don’t hold much water when you continue to wave the flag of those engaged in bloody armed struggle against the rulers of your former land.

To those Tamil protesters naively questioning why their protests of human rights abuses by the government of Sri Lanka don’t elicit greater sympathy, here’s a clue. You are not doing much for your credibility marching under the banners of the Tamil Tigers, a banned terrorist organization , according to the laws of Canada and most other civilized countries, currently waging war with the government of Sri Lanka. The Tigers have been condemned by the UN for abuses and war crimes against Sri Lankan civilians on its part. It doesn’t give you the moral high ground.

The government of Canada is not a pawn to be used by the Tamil Tigers for their own purposes, in pursuit of their own objectives. Now that civil war is engaged between Tamil and Sinhalese communities and the Tigers are engaged in armed struggle to overthrow or destabilize the existing government and carve themselves an ethnic enclave, it makes it that much more difficult to distinguish between claims of persecution and human rights abuses and legitimate military response by existing government to defend its existence. The Tamil Tigers are certainly not innocent in this respect, and what’s that saying about those that live in glass houses.

Don’t you find it incongrous that you are preaching the virtues of multiculturalism in Canada, but pursuing narrow ethnic exclusionist political objectives overseas. It certainly addresses the issue of credibility, and where your true beliefs lie. We were generous enough to grant you refuge and freedom from that persecution you allege is widespread in your former homeland. Don’t abuse that hospitality by using your current refuge as a base of operations from which you continue to wage war against those for which you continue to hold historic grievances.

Claims of persecution don’t hold much water when you continue to wave the flag of those engaged in bloody armed struggle against the rulers of your former land.

Let us not forget that the Tamil Tigers were only formed after the the Sri Lankan government stood by while ethnic riots against its Tamils killed thousands. Successive Sri Lankan governments have established and enforced discriminatory educational and linguistic rules that favour the majority Sinhalese. The desire for Tamil Eelam – an independent Tamil nation – existed long before the Tigers were formed. It ends up being so closely linked to the Tigers because Prabhakaran designed the flag and there’s a Tiger on the flag.

Also, this is not some silly gang war over property. The Tamils are being killed by the Sri Lankan government. Yes, the Tigers are equally brutal, but they were only formed in response to a demagogue government – one that indiscriminately shells hospitals, schools, and other safe zones in the name of its war on terror. I wouldn’t want anything to do with the SL government either.

I am Tamil Canadian, and I love this country, but that doesn’t mean I should have to forget about my family and friends in SL who cannot get out. It is the Tamils who had to leave the country in large numbers – most Sinhalese still live comfortable lives in Sri Lanka. Some posters said that Tamils live all over the world, and Sinhalese only have Sri Lanka. Well, we live all over the world because we were the ones most affected by this conflict, and that is why we had to leave. The Sinhalese felt no such pressing need. Sri Lankan Tamils are not Indian Tamils, so for those of you telling us to go back to India, you don’t really understand anything. Sri Lanka Tamils lived in Sri Lanka for thousands of years, and it is as much their country as anyone else’s. The SL government just wants its minorities to live as second-class citizens under the Sinhalese.

Let us not forget that the Tamil Tigers were only formed after the the Sri Lankan government stood by while ethnic riots against its Tamils killed thousands. Successive Sri Lankan governments have established and enforced discriminatory educational and linguistic rules that favour the majority Sinhalese. The desire for Tamil Eelam – an independent Tamil nation – existed long before the Tigers were formed. It ends up being so closely linked to the Tigers because Prabhakaran designed the flag and there’s a Tiger on the flag.

Also, this is not some silly gang war over property. The Tamils are being killed by the Sri Lankan government. Yes, the Tigers are equally brutal, but they were only formed in response to a demagogue government – one that indiscriminately shells hospitals, schools, and other safe zones in the name of its war on terror. I wouldn’t want anything to do with the SL government either.

I am Tamil Canadian, and I love this country, but that doesn’t mean I should have to forget about my family and friends in SL who cannot get out. It is the Tamils who had to leave the country in large numbers – most Sinhalese still live comfortable lives in Sri Lanka. Some posters said that Tamils live all over the world, and Sinhalese only have Sri Lanka. Well, we live all over the world because we were the ones most affected by this conflict, and that is why we had to leave. The Sinhalese felt no such pressing need. Sri Lankan Tamils are not Indian Tamils, so for those of you telling us to go back to India, you don’t really understand anything. Sri Lanka Tamils lived in Sri Lanka for thousands of years, and it is as much their country as anyone else’s. The SL government just wants its minorities to live as second-class citizens under the Sinhalese.

asshole.

if sri lanka had something such as oil to offer, then the government would be alllll over that. But since the country is basically useless, they think it's alright to get rid of a few thousand folks.

Tamils Tigers are freedom fighters. I am a Srilankan born Tamil living in Canada. I enjoying the equal rights whci h Canadaians are enjoying. But in Srilanka, Tamils are not treated as equal as singhalese people.
Srilankan government set up riot many times in the past AND KILLED more than 25, 000 people.
That is the reason, Tamil took weapons.
The Srilankan government never listen to our Tamils member of parliaments ( currently 22 ) selected democratically by Tamil people. Currently, the government used chemcal weapons and kikked many people including militants. All the country fails to recornize the affected minority people in the world. They act for thiir own bebefits. Presently, Srilankan government does not allow independent media in the warzone area. They killed many local independent journalists. Sir, how you get independent information about Tamils?.
Therefore, We, affted minority people, beg Canadain government (people) to resolve the problems. Tamils Tigers are Tamils. They are freedom fighters. Please listen to the affected people.

Tamils Tigers are freedom fighters. I am a Srilankan born Tamil living in Canada. I enjoying the equal rights whci h Canadaians are enjoying. But in Srilanka, Tamils are not treated as equal as singhalese people.
Srilankan government set up riot many times in the past AND KILLED more than 25, 000 people.
That is the reason, Tamil took weapons.
The Srilankan government never listen to our Tamils member of parliaments ( currently 22 ) selected democratically by Tamil people. Currently, the government used chemcal weapons and kikked many people including militants. All the country fails to recornize the affected minority people in the world. They act for thiir own bebefits. Presently, Srilankan government does not allow independent media in the warzone area. They killed many local independent journalists. Sir, how you get independent information about Tamils?.
Therefore, We, affted minority people, beg Canadain government (people) to resolve the problems. Tamils Tigers are Tamils. They are freedom fighters. Please listen to the affected people.

Stephen Taylor, a political analyst. Is the Mackenzie Institute, a non-profit organization with no address, no board members listed, no list of its funders, the so called `friends’ of the MacKenzie institue your only viable source of information on the LTTE ? If John Thompson says there’s no genocide taking place in Sri Lanka every Canadian buys that line ? And he’s talking about the 1983 riots here…we are talking NOW ! Please go look up the definition of genocide and if no international journalists are being allowed to go to the war zone areas in SL, where is John Thompson coming up with his theories, I wonder ?
`Being known to hold Anti-Tiger views was to risk ostracism (a severe threat to a new immigrant) or a beating. ‘ lol. Steven, why don’t you walk downtown to the protesters in ottawa today and ask them about these so-called beatings and ask them if that’s why they are holding the LTTE flags. BTW, this is the very same John Thompson who was quoted in 2000 in the Toronto Sun as saying that the Canadian Tamils have forced sri Lankan women into prostitution to fund insurgency. After protests from Tamil Canadians, John Thompson issued a denial of the prostitution allegations. Very credible.
It is very obvious that the SL govt is using the excuse that they are wiping out the LTTE to wipe out the Tamil population as well. Stephen, being a scientist and a political analyst and all, isn’t there any other viable source of information on what’s going on in SL other than the MacKenzie Institute ? And to me its very obvious, the Tamil protests in Canada seem to be more about conservatives vs Liberals then what is really happening in SL. We Tamils are every bit a Canadian as you people who say we are not. and Please don’t insult the intelligence of Tamils by quoting the Mackenzie Institute. It just reflects yours.

Stephen Taylor, a political analyst. Is the Mackenzie Institute, a non-profit organization with no address, no board members listed, no list of its funders, the so called `friends’ of the MacKenzie institue your only viable source of information on the LTTE ? If John Thompson says there’s no genocide taking place in Sri Lanka every Canadian buys that line ? And he’s talking about the 1983 riots here…we are talking NOW ! Please go look up the definition of genocide and if no international journalists are being allowed to go to the war zone areas in SL, where is John Thompson coming up with his theories, I wonder ?
`Being known to hold Anti-Tiger views was to risk ostracism (a severe threat to a new immigrant) or a beating. ‘ lol. Steven, why don’t you walk downtown to the protesters in ottawa today and ask them about these so-called beatings and ask them if that’s why they are holding the LTTE flags. BTW, this is the very same John Thompson who was quoted in 2000 in the Toronto Sun as saying that the Canadian Tamils have forced sri Lankan women into prostitution to fund insurgency. After protests from Tamil Canadians, John Thompson issued a denial of the prostitution allegations. Very credible.
It is very obvious that the SL govt is using the excuse that they are wiping out the LTTE to wipe out the Tamil population as well. Stephen, being a scientist and a political analyst and all, isn’t there any other viable source of information on what’s going on in SL other than the MacKenzie Institute ? And to me its very obvious, the Tamil protests in Canada seem to be more about conservatives vs Liberals then what is really happening in SL. We Tamils are every bit a Canadian as you people who say we are not. and Please don’t insult the intelligence of Tamils by quoting the Mackenzie Institute. It just reflects yours.

For sheer gall and inanity, I would be hard put to find commentaries that surpass those of Tamil Tiger supporters and sympathizers spamming and cluttering this discussion. Don't you people realize this is a website affiliated to the Conservative Party of Canada, frequented by those who are conservative- minded or who support the policies of the current government of Canada. One of the reasons I support the current government is precisely because of the hardline it took towards terrorist activities tied to this or that immigrant community, that previous governments were inclined to wink at and ignore. A case in point being the outlawing of the Tamil Tigers.

Do you seriously believe you will convert Conservative Party supporters to your cause, that of picking a fight with and waging war against the Sinhalese majority in Sri Lanka. What is this belief, that immigrant communities get to determine the foreign policy of Canada based on their collective grudges, that the enemies of every refugee group that we so foolishly allow onto Canadian soil and grant the rights of citizenship to automatically become our enemies, that we will wage their bloody and misguided battles on their behalf. Only the NDP and Jack Layton would be foolish enough to embrace such nonsense, to allow our foreign policy to be based on the grudges of every immigrant group, sometimes diametrically opposed, and Canada would end up being at war and seeking to destabilize the governments of half the planet.

You should be content with small victories, you have already signed up Jack Layton to the cause of the Tamil Tigers, and there are any number of spineless jellyfish Liberal MPs prepared to prostrate themselves and support the demands of any terrorist group, abducters of children, juvenile war conscripters and embassy torchers, who last week were marching about with sharpened sticks shouting ” death to America” or “death to Denmark” or some such inanity, that disembarks at Pearson airport and is willing to purchase Liberal Party membership. Undoubtedly your proposed social experiment in exclusionist Tamil ethno socialism would appeal to Bloc members, so take your case to these misfits. On that score, give the matter thought for a moment, you are seeking to convince Conservative Party supporters to embrace your cause, that of waging bloody war and slaughtering Sinhalese in Sri Lanka to further another doomed social experiment in ethno socialism. The landscape of the twentieth century is littered with the corpses of such projects, and you want to give it another shot, and seriously believe we will sign on.

This is so typical of left wing speechmongering prevalent with college kids who have no real life experience, it is one thing to wage struggles and curse the enemies of your people, your idelogy, your faith, and struggle to seize power in the abstract in university lecture halls, and quite another to actually wage such battle in the real world and see the body count pile up on both sides. So let's reiterate, Canadians have no grudge against the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, we are scarcely aware of their existence, they are not even on the radar, and we are certainly not going to pick a fight with them, wage war against them, seek to destabilize or partition Sri Lanka simply because Tamil refugees to Canada prod us to adopt their cause. The government of Canada is not about to let the Tamil Tigers, a banned terrorist organization, determine its foreign policy.

Now on to the claims of persecution and human rights abuses. It should be pointed out that such claims have very little credibility coming from those who impudently and foolishly march under the banners of the Tamil Tigers.
To put it in context for those at home, it would be akin to supporters of the FLQ levelling charges of persecution against the government of Canada. Well yes, in such case the government has every right to adopt extraordinary measures and “persecute” terrorists and their supporters. Independent of the rights and wrongs of the ethnic groups embroiled in the conflict, the government of Sri Lanka has the right to defend its existence against armed insurrectionists.

And make no mistake, those levelling the charges of abuses and persecution on this forum are not innocent civilians inadvertently swept up in a civil war, but those who openly declare their support for the battles waged by the insurrectionists. You can't go pick a fight with the Sinhalese, get bloody and beaten and then come back to Canada and complain of how you got beat up and seek intervention by the government of Canada on your behalf. That's not how it works. We pick our own enemies and our own battles, when it so behooves us, and we are not about to base our foreign policy on the initiatives of every group of dubious Canadians of convenience who seek to wage battle and overthrow some foreign government and prompt them into reprisals. You go poking around in a hornet's nest, you are going to get stung.

Well-said, Dupmar.

I haven't even bothered to read all of the Tamil Tiger propaganda cluttering this thread. I've got other issues in my life and that of my family which take precedence over a battle that's taking place on the other side of the world.

Canada — well, PET and his we'll-do-anything-for-power-including-selling-Canada-down-the-river LPC coterie– made a big mistake when it allowed immigrants to Canada to hold two passports. Divided loyalties proliferate and us one-passport holding Canadians are left holding the bag and paying the bill.

ENOUGH.

If immigrants to Canada cannot make an unambiguous commitment to this country and its democratic institutions, they need to turn right around and go back to their country of origin — or never be allowed into Canada in the first place. This demand by Canadians of convenience that Canadians take up their grievances, by blocking our streets and access to businesses and Parliament, is outrageous impertinence.

Those Tamil Tiger sympathizers and apologists posting on this thread need to know that they are grossly abusing Canadas' hospitality and good will., which are not in inexhaustible supply.

wow this is so one sided its unbelievable. thats how the conservatives work and thats why canwest is going down the drain, because of bias conservative journalism! u dont see any comparison at all. maybe i should make a blog on why stephen taylor is a horrible journalist without mentioning anything good he’s written, because that’s how journalism should be done right? sickening

wow this is so one sided its unbelievable. thats how the conservatives work and thats why canwest is going down the drain, because of bias conservative journalism! u dont see any comparison at all. maybe i should make a blog on why stephen taylor is a horrible journalist without mentioning anything good he’s written, because that’s how journalism should be done right? sickening

the real terrorists are the tories!

the real terrorists are the tories!

A number of comments in this thread are pure racist. First of all not all Tamil Canadians came to Canada as refugees. In my case I came to this country as a skilled migrant. By the way I flew here. Didn’t come by boat.

It’s the skills and talent brought by migrants that keeps Canada a strong country. No matter whether your family lived in Canada for 300 years or just 3 years, all Canadians have the same right. Tamil Canadians have the right to protest, until the PM opens his mouth and addresses the Tamil Community.

I am a dual Citizen (both Canada and Australia), seriously considering moving back to Australia. I do not want to live in a country where I am treated like a second class citizen!

A number of comments in this thread are pure racist. First of all not all Tamil Canadians came to Canada as refugees. In my case I came to this country as a skilled migrant. By the way I flew here. Didn’t come by boat.

It’s the skills and talent brought by migrants that keeps Canada a strong country. No matter whether your family lived in Canada for 300 years or just 3 years, all Canadians have the same right. Tamil Canadians have the right to protest, until the PM opens his mouth and addresses the Tamil Community.

I am a dual Citizen (both Canada and Australia), seriously considering moving back to Australia. I do not want to live in a country where I am treated like a second class citizen!

It's a simple solution folks!

The remaining 'Non-Tamil supporters in Canada (99.82%) should protest in front of Air Canada in demand for cheap seat sales and send these morons back to settle the score!

What do these protesters do for a living anyway?

Perhaps the remaining 'Non disruptive' and Non Tamil Canadians (99.89%) should protest in front of Air India and demand cheap seat sales so we can send these freedom fighters back to Tamil Land and settle the score there!

Don't these protesters work?

these protesters are Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Business men as well as general labour and students…

if these so called “morons” were all sent back home .. this country will see a major economic hit especially toronto.

lets not forget, we're all immigrants to this country and the only true canadians are native indians ….

A time will come for tamils when something similar like this happens in your own backyard… and they will complain about traffic and tell u to leave your problems at the door.

If we look back in history, any group that rebelled against their government in a civil war was categorized as terrorists. Down the road, once the struggle was over, we were able to look back and understand why they acted the way they did, and see that their ways were, in fact, justified. The problem with that is we were too closed-minded to help them out when they needed it.

As educated people, one would think we'd learn from history's mistakes and act on stopping the violence in the island. Apparently neither the author of this article nor many people commenting on this article are intelligent enough to make those conclusions.

How many lives will it cost for the world to act ?

Al-qaeda kills brown and white folks.
LTTE kills brown folks only, licks white arse.

Liberal/NDP logic:
Al-qaeda = terrorist organization.
LTTE = freedom fighters. (no white victims).

Truth:
Both Al-qaeda and LTTE are terrorist organization since they kill innocent (brown or white) civilians.

Al-qaeda kills brown and white folks.
LTTE kills brown folks only, licks white arse.

Liberal/NDP logic:
Al-qaeda = terrorist organization.
LTTE = freedom fighters. (no white victims).

Truth:
Both Al-qaeda and LTTE are terrorist organization since they kill innocent (brown or white) civilians.

This Article is bunch of crap and you don’t know where to get proper information, instead using bias and fiction sources!!!

This Article is bunch of crap and you don’t know where to get proper information, instead using bias and fiction sources!!!

I would like to comment on below by a fellow Canadian.

“The main line that they give is, they are doing this for their Country ! Well folks I thought your Country was Canada. When you come here, please leave your baggage at the door!”

For your information what we left behind is more than our baggage, our friends from school, neighbours we grew up with, sisters, brothers and cousins. Yes we are proud Canadians but are also humble human beings who cannot ignore that fact or move on merely with our luxury life here with out thinking of them.

We still humanity in us to feel and raise our voice for the genocide that is happening in Srilanka. The author says there is no such thing as genocide in Srilanka he says there are no “labour camps and death camps”. I suggest he better get his passport ready and try visiting Silanka and the northern province. No media is allowed, there is a war against Tamils with out any witness. The people who flee the war zone are in a greater danger they are in detention camps which was described by a humanitarian from New York ) who actually visited one) says she has in her career visited several of these from around the world but haven’t come across one of this atrocity.

The people who are marching in Ottawa are not terrorist; they lived and faced terrorism from their child hood, the terrorism of Srilankan Government. If any one knows better it is the people who had first hand experience living there, they are the only ones who has the right to speak about it. Any one else, feel free to visit the place find out what is happening there from the kids to the elderly who are facing the genocide and then write your article about it and I would definitely respect that.

I know it is great inconvenience to traffic, although the crowd in Ottawa is doing their level best to avoid that. Just think about the cause they are there for, they are there to plead for help, help to save human life and I hope the world has a little more humanity left in it to feel for these people.

I would like to comment on below by a fellow Canadian.

“The main line that they give is, they are doing this for their Country ! Well folks I thought your Country was Canada. When you come here, please leave your baggage at the door!”

For your information what we left behind is more than our baggage, our friends from school, neighbours we grew up with, sisters, brothers and cousins. Yes we are proud Canadians but are also humble human beings who cannot ignore that fact or move on merely with our luxury life here with out thinking of them.

We still humanity in us to feel and raise our voice for the genocide that is happening in Srilanka. The author says there is no such thing as genocide in Srilanka he says there are no “labour camps and death camps”. I suggest he better get his passport ready and try visiting Silanka and the northern province. No media is allowed, there is a war against Tamils with out any witness. The people who flee the war zone are in a greater danger they are in detention camps which was described by a humanitarian from New York ) who actually visited one) says she has in her career visited several of these from around the world but haven’t come across one of this atrocity.

The people who are marching in Ottawa are not terrorist; they lived and faced terrorism from their child hood, the terrorism of Srilankan Government. If any one knows better it is the people who had first hand experience living there, they are the only ones who has the right to speak about it. Any one else, feel free to visit the place find out what is happening there from the kids to the elderly who are facing the genocide and then write your article about it and I would definitely respect that.

I know it is great inconvenience to traffic, although the crowd in Ottawa is doing their level best to avoid that. Just think about the cause they are there for, they are there to plead for help, help to save human life and I hope the world has a little more humanity left in it to feel for these people.

I would like to comment on below by a fellow Canadian.

“The main line that they give is, they are doing this for their Country ! Well folks I thought your Country was Canada. When you come here, please leave your baggage at the door!”

For your information what we left behind is more than our baggage, our friends from school, neighbours we grew up with, sisters, brothers and cousins. Yes we are proud Canadians but are also humble human beings who cannot ignore that fact or move on merely with our luxury life here with out thinking of them.

We still humanity in us to feel and raise our voice for the genocide that is happening in Srilanka. The author says there is no such thing as genocide in Srilanka he says there are no “labour camps and death camps”. I suggest he better get his passport ready and try visiting Silanka and the northern province. No media is allowed, there is a war against Tamils with out any witness. The people who flee the war zone are in a greater danger they are in detention camps which was described by a humanitarian from New York ) who actually visited one) says she has in her career visited several of these from around the world but haven’t come across one of this atrocity.

The people who are marching in Ottawa are not terrorist; they lived and faced terrorism from their child hood, the terrorism of Srilankan Government. If any one knows better it is the people who had first hand experience living there, they are the only ones who has the right to speak about it. Any one else, feel free to visit the place find out what is happening there from the kids to the elderly who are facing the genocide and then write your article about it and I would definitely respect that.

I know it is great inconvenience to traffic, although the crowd in Ottawa is doing their level best to avoid that. Just think about the cause they are there for, they are there to plead for help, help to save human life and I hope the world has a little more humanity left in it to feel for these people.

hi I’m a born and raised CANADIAN , and like many of us CANADIANS am sick and tired of Canada being a safe haven for the worlds criminals . Now we have tamil terrorist supporters blocking our streets and protesting against OUR government to fix their problems . I can’t believe these people . These people come to OUR country , go on OUR social programs , then protest OUR government , THEY are nothing but a bunch of COWARDS that run to Canada live on our tax dollars and bring their problems and expect everyone else to do what they want . Enough is enough , instead of disrupting OUR country , why don’t they go back to their own country and fix their own problems , but they won’t because they are nothing but COWARDS .
When is our government going to GET A BACKBONE , GROW A SPINE and put a STOP to these immigrants coming here putting them on OUR social programs then allowing them to march on OUR government and change our laws and customs to suit themselves . If they don’t like the way our country is then go back to where you came from because WE DON”T WANT THEM HERE .

hi I’m a born and raised CANADIAN , and like many of us CANADIANS am sick and tired of Canada being a safe haven for the worlds criminals . Now we have tamil terrorist supporters blocking our streets and protesting against OUR government to fix their problems . I can’t believe these people . These people come to OUR country , go on OUR social programs , then protest OUR government , THEY are nothing but a bunch of COWARDS that run to Canada live on our tax dollars and bring their problems and expect everyone else to do what they want . Enough is enough , instead of disrupting OUR country , why don’t they go back to their own country and fix their own problems , but they won’t because they are nothing but COWARDS .
When is our government going to GET A BACKBONE , GROW A SPINE and put a STOP to these immigrants coming here putting them on OUR social programs then allowing them to march on OUR government and change our laws and customs to suit themselves . If they don’t like the way our country is then go back to where you came from because WE DON”T WANT THEM HERE .

excellent article , telling the truth

excellent article , telling the truth

To all of you who think that LTTE is a Terrorist. They are not Terrorsit they are the one who is asking and fighting for Peace for Tamils in Srilanka. This war is not ending and its is getting worst like the Holocaust back in Germany. If you guys read the Diary of Anne Frank you will feel it and you will know what is also happening back in Srilanka, I am here to Speak for lot and lot of Anne Frank who can not Speak or write in a DIARY

We seek your immediate attention on the humanitarian horror, which is going on in Sri Lanka – Wanni at the moment.

More than 50,000 Srilankan army have surrounded the Tamils densely populated areas in Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka. Their continuous bombing and artillery shelling are killing the defenceless and innocent Tamil People. Although they call it ‘the war on Tamil tigers’, it is clearly proven that it is a genocide of Tamils.

Yesterday (April 13 2009) alone, 300 innocent Tamil civilians feared killed, countless wounded, artillery barrage on ‘safety zone’ in Sri Lanka – Wanni.

More than 500 civilians have lost their lives, more than 1000 are severely injured just in the last few days and 400,000 Tamil civilians are being displaced daily. What come under attacks by the army mainly are safety zones, hospitals and other civilians populated areas.

Artillery, multi-barrel and mortar fire by the Sri Lankan army towards safety zones (set by the government) in Mullaitivu district is described as ‘the most inhumane genocidal attacks on civilian population’.

Medical authorities said the situations are beyond the control as the hospitals have come under attacks and patients are helpless without medical attendance.

Please take innocent people’s lives into serious consideration. Tamils are undergoing extremely critical situation in terms of safety, food and medicine – the basics for a human.

Innocent Tamils in the North East of Sri Lanka are being arrested and tortured by the Srilankan army. The government of Sri Lanka has ignored and expelled the human right organizations and the International community to engage in this genocide, without paying attention to anyone.

It is extremely very sad that the international community including human rights organizations and the rest of the world are closing their eyes and not taking any serious actions to save the lives of the innocents and to bring peace to Tamils.

We, the millions of Tamils around the world, kindly, ask you to take immediate actions to send a Human Rights Organization or any International community representative officers to the Tamils displaced areas in Mullaitivu to see their struggles in person. More significantly, we want you to set particular areas as safety zones and to instruct the government not to attack them. In order to take all the peace related actions, a ceasefire must be brought between both Tamil tigers and the government as soon as possible.

We the Tamils in this Country, urge your good officers to do your part to save the lives that are being lost daily. Tamils around the world have faith in you as you would stand by us. Please understand the sufferings and the hardships of the Tamils in Sri Lanka.

To all of you who think that LTTE is a Terrorist. They are not Terrorsit they are the one who is asking and fighting for Peace for Tamils in Srilanka. This war is not ending and its is getting worst like the Holocaust back in Germany. If you guys read the Diary of Anne Frank you will feel it and you will know what is also happening back in Srilanka, I am here to Speak for lot and lot of Anne Frank who can not Speak or write in a DIARY

We seek your immediate attention on the humanitarian horror, which is going on in Sri Lanka – Wanni at the moment.

More than 50,000 Srilankan army have surrounded the Tamils densely populated areas in Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka. Their continuous bombing and artillery shelling are killing the defenceless and innocent Tamil People. Although they call it ‘the war on Tamil tigers’, it is clearly proven that it is a genocide of Tamils.

Yesterday (April 13 2009) alone, 300 innocent Tamil civilians feared killed, countless wounded, artillery barrage on ‘safety zone’ in Sri Lanka – Wanni.

More than 500 civilians have lost their lives, more than 1000 are severely injured just in the last few days and 400,000 Tamil civilians are being displaced daily. What come under attacks by the army mainly are safety zones, hospitals and other civilians populated areas.

Artillery, multi-barrel and mortar fire by the Sri Lankan army towards safety zones (set by the government) in Mullaitivu district is described as ‘the most inhumane genocidal attacks on civilian population’.

Medical authorities said the situations are beyond the control as the hospitals have come under attacks and patients are helpless without medical attendance.

Please take innocent people’s lives into serious consideration. Tamils are undergoing extremely critical situation in terms of safety, food and medicine – the basics for a human.

Innocent Tamils in the North East of Sri Lanka are being arrested and tortured by the Srilankan army. The government of Sri Lanka has ignored and expelled the human right organizations and the International community to engage in this genocide, without paying attention to anyone.

It is extremely very sad that the international community including human rights organizations and the rest of the world are closing their eyes and not taking any serious actions to save the lives of the innocents and to bring peace to Tamils.

We, the millions of Tamils around the world, kindly, ask you to take immediate actions to send a Human Rights Organization or any International community representative officers to the Tamils displaced areas in Mullaitivu to see their struggles in person. More significantly, we want you to set particular areas as safety zones and to instruct the government not to attack them. In order to take all the peace related actions, a ceasefire must be brought between both Tamil tigers and the government as soon as possible.

We the Tamils in this Country, urge your good officers to do your part to save the lives that are being lost daily. Tamils around the world have faith in you as you would stand by us. Please understand the sufferings and the hardships of the Tamils in Sri Lanka.

“If we look back in history, any group that rebelled against their government in a civil war was categorized as terrorists. Down the road, once the struggle was over, we were able to look back and understand why they acted the way they did, and see that their ways were, in fact, justified.”

Any group? Is that how it works? I doubt it. Take a look at the U.S. Civil War. It’s not intelligent to suggest that the Confederacy should have been allowed to maintain slavery and break away from the United States.

Our government is not recquired to provide any support or aid to the Tamils. Making other Canadians frustrated and angry won’t garner much sympathy, and that’s not intelligent either.

“If we look back in history, any group that rebelled against their government in a civil war was categorized as terrorists. Down the road, once the struggle was over, we were able to look back and understand why they acted the way they did, and see that their ways were, in fact, justified.”

Any group? Is that how it works? I doubt it. Take a look at the U.S. Civil War. It’s not intelligent to suggest that the Confederacy should have been allowed to maintain slavery and break away from the United States.

Our government is not recquired to provide any support or aid to the Tamils. Making other Canadians frustrated and angry won’t garner much sympathy, and that’s not intelligent either.

Let’s address some of the recent comments supportive of the Tamil Tiger protesters. Some point out that protesters may be skilled professionals, doctors and engineers and not simply taxi drivers, and this should qualify and justify their protests. Yes, well we may have Kurdish engineers, or Basque doctors or Chechnyen lawyers, that is people who emigrated to Canada and previously held such positions in their homeland protesting on Parliament Hill, that neither qualifies nor disqualifies their protests per se, but neither does it justify that we embrace their struggle and let their priorities determine our foreign policy. We are not about to destabilize the governments of half the planet because recent immigrants demand this of us.

I can only conclude that blind and wilful ignorance determines the Liberal/ NDP obsession with characterizing
the Tamil Tigers as “freedom fighters” knowing what we know about them. They are neither the ANC of Nelson Mandela nor the MPLA in Angola mid-seventies. What’s the distinction, well for one Mandela was not involved in any attempts to assasinate the German Chancellor or the Prime Minister of Sweden, and the Tamil Tigers stand accused of involvement in the assassination of the head of state in India. That’s what is called crossing the line between some territorially based “liberation movement” and some worldwide terrorist outfit. What’s next, the assassination of Stephen Harper because he obstructs their purpose as well.

On to objections by some Tamils of being labelled as “refugees” rather than immigrants. From what I understand from what many Tamil contributors have themselves declared, the decision to immigrate to Canada was not in and of itself a voluntary one, in the sense, things are not so bad in Sri Lanka but I think I would prefer to be a Canadian citizen but rather we were driven to seek refuge in Canada. From what they themselves are claiming, they were driven to Canada or to similar countries due to pogroms and persecution by the Sinhalese majority in Sri Lanka but long to return and reclaim their homeland. If that doesn’t qualify someone for refugee status, irrespective of whether the application was filed as family class sponsorship, I don’t know what would. What’s the difference, some NDPer will argue. Well as some immigrants to Canada who previously contributed to the discussion have pointed out, the difference is between someone who consciously and deliberately chose Canada, wants to contribute, to belong, defines himself as Canadian and those asylum seekers stuck here for an indeterminate period who ended up here by default, but have no interest in Canadian society, politics, culture other than seen through the prism of their own political agenda, in particular how Canada may further or facilitate the struggle to liberate their homeland. I consider those marching under the banners of the Tamil Tigers to fall into this category.

I recall a quip the Liberals are quite fond of, Trudeau’s statement to the effect that the Prime Minister of Canada is not headwaiter to the Provinces. At least provincial Premiers have some legitimate interest, for the most part, in the well-being of Canadians as opposed to say, the Tamil Tigers. I recall one disgraceful episode, late 2005 or early 2006 where Paul Martin attended a Tamil community meeting in Brampton, purportedly to deal with disaster relief for Sri Lanka and he was beset with demands from Tamil Tiger supporters that relief funds be directed to the Tamil Tigers rather than the Sri Lankan relief agency, and he hemmed and hawed and equivocated and couldn’t give a straight reply. Here’s a clue for the Liberals, you want respect, get up off the floor and learn to say ” no” to outrageous and impertinent demands. The Prime Minister of Canada may not be headwaiter to the Provinces, but neither is he some carpet for newcomers to wipe their feet on, some bellhop or gofer that terrorist bands, just disembarked at Pearson airport, can snap their fingers at.

Some of the frustration emanating from Tamil Tiger protesters is just that, they are accustomed to being catered to by jellyfish Liberals, they are not accustomed to having impertinent demands being met with refusal. And what is more impertinent than Canadians of convenience marching under a terrorist banner and delivering their demands to Canada’s parliament. If Canadians of Tamil origin wish their grievances pertaining to conditions in Sri Lanka to be considered, they might themselves first consider divorcing themselves from the terrorists
in their midst and not marching under their banners.

For the rest, we have the usual nonsense from anarcho-communists and NDPers, openly contemptuous of the sacrifices of Canadian troops overseas, indulging in crazed romanticism of the mutual slaughter of a civil war which they term ” liberation struggle”, berating Conservative supporters for alleged racism because some expressed concern about the validity and intent of certain immigration applicants, and have no desire to see their country evolve into a series of refugee enclaves, launching pads for revolutions or if you will, ” liberation struggles” in foreign lands. No, those communities involved in mutual slaughter overseas are not “racist” as their skin colour is undifferentiated and they are certainly welcome to bring their hatred and grievances to Canadian soil but those Conservatives who question the wisdom of an indiscriminate no holds barred immigration policy, well that’s an evil racism to be expunged and we NDPers will have to berate and guilt trip them to silence with tales of European expansion and conquest.

If you feel the Tamil insurgents have a worthy struggle and deserve to be liberated, that slaughter of Sinhalese civilians by the Tamil Tigers is excusable for the greater good, by all means join the struggle. You can name your contingent the Jack Layton Brigade.

Let’s address some of the recent comments supportive of the Tamil Tiger protesters. Some point out that protesters may be skilled professionals, doctors and engineers and not simply taxi drivers, and this should qualify and justify their protests. Yes, well we may have Kurdish engineers, or Basque doctors or Chechnyen lawyers, that is people who emigrated to Canada and previously held such positions in their homeland protesting on Parliament Hill, that neither qualifies nor disqualifies their protests per se, but neither does it justify that we embrace their struggle and let their priorities determine our foreign policy. We are not about to destabilize the governments of half the planet because recent immigrants demand this of us.

I can only conclude that blind and wilful ignorance determines the Liberal/ NDP obsession with characterizing
the Tamil Tigers as “freedom fighters” knowing what we know about them. They are neither the ANC of Nelson Mandela nor the MPLA in Angola mid-seventies. What’s the distinction, well for one Mandela was not involved in any attempts to assasinate the German Chancellor or the Prime Minister of Sweden, and the Tamil Tigers stand accused of involvement in the assassination of the head of state in India. That’s what is called crossing the line between some territorially based “liberation movement” and some worldwide terrorist outfit. What’s next, the assassination of Stephen Harper because he obstructs their purpose as well.

On to objections by some Tamils of being labelled as “refugees” rather than immigrants. From what I understand from what many Tamil contributors have themselves declared, the decision to immigrate to Canada was not in and of itself a voluntary one, in the sense, things are not so bad in Sri Lanka but I think I would prefer to be a Canadian citizen but rather we were driven to seek refuge in Canada. From what they themselves are claiming, they were driven to Canada or to similar countries due to pogroms and persecution by the Sinhalese majority in Sri Lanka but long to return and reclaim their homeland. If that doesn’t qualify someone for refugee status, irrespective of whether the application was filed as family class sponsorship, I don’t know what would. What’s the difference, some NDPer will argue. Well as some immigrants to Canada who previously contributed to the discussion have pointed out, the difference is between someone who consciously and deliberately chose Canada, wants to contribute, to belong, defines himself as Canadian and those asylum seekers stuck here for an indeterminate period who ended up here by default, but have no interest in Canadian society, politics, culture other than seen through the prism of their own political agenda, in particular how Canada may further or facilitate the struggle to liberate their homeland. I consider those marching under the banners of the Tamil Tigers to fall into this category.

I recall a quip the Liberals are quite fond of, Trudeau’s statement to the effect that the Prime Minister of Canada is not headwaiter to the Provinces. At least provincial Premiers have some legitimate interest, for the most part, in the well-being of Canadians as opposed to say, the Tamil Tigers. I recall one disgraceful episode, late 2005 or early 2006 where Paul Martin attended a Tamil community meeting in Brampton, purportedly to deal with disaster relief for Sri Lanka and he was beset with demands from Tamil Tiger supporters that relief funds be directed to the Tamil Tigers rather than the Sri Lankan relief agency, and he hemmed and hawed and equivocated and couldn’t give a straight reply. Here’s a clue for the Liberals, you want respect, get up off the floor and learn to say ” no” to outrageous and impertinent demands. The Prime Minister of Canada may not be headwaiter to the Provinces, but neither is he some carpet for newcomers to wipe their feet on, some bellhop or gofer that terrorist bands, just disembarked at Pearson airport, can snap their fingers at.

Some of the frustration emanating from Tamil Tiger protesters is just that, they are accustomed to being catered to by jellyfish Liberals, they are not accustomed to having impertinent demands being met with refusal. And what is more impertinent than Canadians of convenience marching under a terrorist banner and delivering their demands to Canada’s parliament. If Canadians of Tamil origin wish their grievances pertaining to conditions in Sri Lanka to be considered, they might themselves first consider divorcing themselves from the terrorists
in their midst and not marching under their banners.

For the rest, we have the usual nonsense from anarcho-communists and NDPers, openly contemptuous of the sacrifices of Canadian troops overseas, indulging in crazed romanticism of the mutual slaughter of a civil war which they term ” liberation struggle”, berating Conservative supporters for alleged racism because some expressed concern about the validity and intent of certain immigration applicants, and have no desire to see their country evolve into a series of refugee enclaves, launching pads for revolutions or if you will, ” liberation struggles” in foreign lands. No, those communities involved in mutual slaughter overseas are not “racist” as their skin colour is undifferentiated and they are certainly welcome to bring their hatred and grievances to Canadian soil but those Conservatives who question the wisdom of an indiscriminate no holds barred immigration policy, well that’s an evil racism to be expunged and we NDPers will have to berate and guilt trip them to silence with tales of European expansion and conquest.

If you feel the Tamil insurgents have a worthy struggle and deserve to be liberated, that slaughter of Sinhalese civilians by the Tamil Tigers is excusable for the greater good, by all means join the struggle. You can name your contingent the Jack Layton Brigade.

i heard that stephen taylor supports gays and that he is one as well. I would really maybe support the tories if this came true. And you wonder y canwest is going bankrupt, because of terrorists like stephen taylor.

i heard that stephen taylor supports gays and that he is one as well. I would really maybe support the tories if this came true. And you wonder y canwest is going bankrupt, because of terrorists like stephen taylor.

Just one Problem you come to our country for no other reason than to protest and help your families at home?
Please take the next plane back and help them. This is Canada. If you prople don't feel that Canada is your Country why stay. I wished you would either leave your baggage at ” Home ” or do not come.The Canadian Governement ows nothing to the Tamils.
I think it is time that we stop this duel citizenship garbage. I myself am an Immigrant and do not hold dual Citizenship. When I came Canada, it was to be ” my ” country I needed no other.The fact that so many stay in Canada for ten or 15 years, then go back to their country of origin and only come back for our healthcare and to get our pension. I think the Government should make it clear. No pension if you go back.

You still don't get it. Your actions are backfiring to all the Tamils in this country. We owe you nothing. Solve your own problem by going home and doing things there.

Tamils dont ask to pick favourites in the conflict. what they ask is to stop the killing of innocent people.

There is no other country in the world doing aerial bombing on its own citizens!

Tamils dont ask to pick favourites in the conflict. what they ask is to stop the killing of innocent people.

There is no other country in the world doing aerial bombing on its own citizens!

aaron: “A number of comments in this thread are pure racist.”

That's pure nonsense.

I'm weary beyond measure that in these latter days of the multicultural dispensation ANY criticism leveled against a group that is a visible minority is labeled “racist.” That is a cop-out and demonstrates an inability to argue the merits, or otherwise, of an argument.

Of course there are countless immigrants to Canada, my ancestors included, who contribute their “time, treasure, and talent” to this country, and I say “Bravo” to all of them.

There are, however, and this has been a fairly recent occurrence, immigrants who seem to have come to Canada merely as a convenience to them. They seem to have no intention of pitching their tent in any real way on Canadian soil, but are very happy to take advantage of all of their “rights” and “freedoms” rather than being mindful of their responsibilities as citizens of this country and their obligations.

What, aaron, is it that the Canadian government can do to help the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka? Why aren't all these demonstrator willing to do something IN Sri Lanka? We could argue till Kingdom Come about whether or not they are terrorists. The Canadian government has outlawed them because of their proven terrorist activities and if you have a beef about that, take it up with your elected representative to Parliament. But, please, don't play the racist card because you don't happen to like the way an argument is going.

My family and I have been paying the way for too many immigrants to this country to live off the dole and to have all of their services, dental, medical, housing, daycare, after-school care, “heritage” languages in our schools, etc., provided. My family, on the other hand, has had to pay for its own medical, dental, housing, and childcare, all the while watching our heritage — which is a proud one — be trashed in our schools and in the MSM.

Sorry you don't like to hear about our growing discontent with this situation, though you might try putting yourselves in our situation to try and see why we're not exactly happy with the “contribution” being made to Canadian society by certain groups of immigrants. And, in addition to the monetary burden these “rights” and “freedoms” of new immigrants are putting on the Canadian citizenry, we are experiencing much higher crime rates in our cities and much less harmony in our schools and on our streets.

That's a fact. It has nothing to do with “racism.” In fact, I might call your statements reverse racism, because you seem to be saying that people with my background and views have no right to simply make observations about what's happening in our country.

aaron, if you're still watching this thread, two questions:

Who is being “racist” on this thread? Be specific. Quote “racist” comments. I'd like to see what you mean by “racist.”

How are you being treated in Canada like a second-class citizen — and I mean you, specifically, not just general comments made about “immigrants.”

oops…………………… by all these comments i can gather one thing; if the canadian government does not put a stop to these protests by this dangerous terrorist organization, with in the next 10 to 15 years canada will also face the same situation that sri lanka is facing now!

I liked your comment the most!

Emma

Distressing news. I pray that the concerned parties would come at a middle point, that would both be satisfactory enough to bring out peace and ease their minds, and more importantly their troubled hearts.

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