Tamil protest in Ottawa
April 10, 2009 · By Charles Anthony
Tamil protest in Ottawa
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Know a good Christian Tamil family, they live in fear of the Tigers.
Don’t be fooled.
Tamil Tigers are not terrorists, and I thank you for noticing this. I am a Tamil teenager and i attended this protest. Why? Because long before I was born my grandmother, uncle, and cousin brother were killed by the Sinhalese army back home. We come in peace, and we simply ask the Canadian government to stop the silence and notice that the 200,000 Tamils that live in the GTA are pleading for aid in the wartorn country of Sri Lanka. Help save innocent tamils.
What are these people doing in my country? They should be in Sri Lanka.
Vithya… you’re such a good indoctrinated apologist aren’t you. Instead of listening to the propaganda your mommy and daddy are spoon feeding you perhaps you should do a little independent research to discover the truth.
http://tinyurl.com/d37zvh
I used to support the Tamils in their quest for independence from a repressive regime. BUT, when they started using ‘creative financing’ techniques such as kidnapping, extortion, prostitution, drug trafficking and the like, they lost any possibility of gaining my approval or support.
I am willing to believe that you are not a terrorist, Vithya, but If you want your cause to be accepted and supported by Canadians you will have to show that you do not accept criminal behaviour in my country on your behalf. Turn in the Tamil scumbags who are dealing in drugs and guns and extortion. Demonstrate that you believe in the rule of law and that you can be a good citizen of the country that so graciously accepted you into its bosom. If you can’t do that, the only people who will accept you are criminals and Liberals, (pardon the redundancy).
Vithya, while you are at it, stop using the banners and flags of a banned terrorist organization in Canada.
As well, ask your ‘parents’ if the real reason they want to protest is to help overturn the decision of the Canadian govt to declare the tigers a terrorist organization.Surely they should know how much of a crimp this has placed on their fund raising efforts in the Tamil ex-pat community.
Lastly, please remember that Conservatives are not Liberals, and they do not condone terrorism as easily as do pols from the left.
THOSE WHO SAYS LTTE IS “TERRORISTS”…
WHO WAS BOMBING CHURCHS, TEMPLES, HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS, HOUSES, SHELTERS AND EVEN SAFETY ZONES…STOP TALKING DO SOMETHING TO STOP THE GENOSIDE OF TAMILS.
We are Canadian citizens. If we have a problem, the people who we voted for must solve it. That is why we elected them. To the other citizens who says go back to your own courty, This is our country. You came here and got your rights and so did we. If not the native indians can tell all of you to leave and you would know where to go to. we are in the same situation. Us Tamils do not have anywhere to go to. Our homeland is stolen from us.
For those who say that this is not the Canadian governments problem. It is. Canada banned LTTE on a humaterian level. LTTE did not do anything to any in Canada but Canada banned the LTTE saying that they use teenaged soildgers and sucide bombers. Now if Canada is a leading courty who is going to be a rolemodel, it should do someting about a humanaterial crisis which let to the foundation of the LTTE. That is the systematic genocide of Tamils. The only thing that has changed since the banning of LTTE is the sclae in which the Sri Lankan government is taking its action towards the elemination of Tamils. If the Canadian government do not want to be a part of this problem then it should completely remove itself from it. This would mean that it treat both parties equally and lift the ban on LTTE. Canada must act now. Either push sanctions on the Sri Lankan government or lift the ban on LTTE.
We are global citizens. We must give our voice to every single problem happening in this world. The global economy is a living proof of the global citizenship we hold. We can not sit back and watch the American economy or the Chinese economy fall because it will affect us. Just like that we can not wat the genocide of Tamils because it affects all of us and our futrue children to come.
Reid,
Who is the indoctrinated apologist here ? Your idea of research is directing a teenager to read the Mackenzie Institute’s report ? This is the very same institute that had its director, Johh Thompson quote in an interview with the Toronto Sun in the year 2000 that Canadian Tamils have forced sri Lankan women into prostitution to fund insurgency. After Tamils protested in large numbers, John Thompson issued a denial of the prostitution allegation.
I would ask that you instead do some research on the MacKenzie Institute and its members before you direct anyone to their site. Who forms the board of the Institute ? Citing the obvious reason that they may be targeted by terrorists, they have no list of their board members. lol. Who are those who fund this non-profit organization, the so-called `friends’ of the institute ? Do they make their financial statements public ? Does the MacKenzie Institute even fit the definition of a think tank ?
And vithya, yes, do your research, learn about the origins of the civil war in SL, learn the origins of theLTTE and decide for yourself whether they are a legitimate group, learn why your parents have come to Canada to start a new life and despite making it here why they are still concerned till today with what’s happening in SL and you know what, continue listening to your parents…bec it is not propoganda but reality that they have told you and are telling you…you are not going to listen to someone who is reading one-sided reports and telling you to do the same.
YOU PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING !!
WE`LL PROTEST ALL WE WANT AND THAT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN SRI LANKA JUST WATCH
sorry it just sad seeing tamils die back home our brothers and sisters
I do not at all think any of the Tamils will be protesting outside of Ottawa for terrorist. I believe there must be something wrong with the definition of terrorism. From what i know , i do not think the LTTE falls into the criteria , as a Canadian citizen my concern is my countries security and i am very sure that the LTTE never was nor will be risk to any country. Looking at the plight intellectual Tamils, i do not think LTTE as terrorist because i do not think the Tamils will be holding the flag nor even participate in the massive protest if that was the case . It seems there is genocide that have been unleashed by the Sri Lanka government under the name of war on terror and as i was walking across the street i heard people shouting “stop using nerve gas” with pictures of bodies burned by chemical elements. I am personally a doctor , to me those pictures clearly show use of some sort of chemicals. There is something really wrong.
1. Tamail Tigers LTTE are a recognized terrorist organization. (37 countries)
2. They have links to al-qaeda (CIA)
3. The currenty use child soldiers (over 5000 at last count)
4. The use suicide murderers to kill innocents.
5. There is not recorded use of chemical weapons by the Sri Lanka military
6. There is no recorded genocide to date. But yes civilians have died (700,000 by some accounts) but the LTTE are most reponsible as they use civilians as shields and put them in harms way to get a body count and to discredit the Sri Lanan military.
7. The Tamils are holding over 100,000 civilains as human shields. (Reuters)
8. The Tamil Tigers LTTE started the civil war.
9. There has never been a Tamil homeland. They are part of Sri Lanka
10. The demonstrators are lying to the press about genocide.
11. The Tamail organization in Canada raises money for ther terrorist organization by money laundering, extortion, drugs and theft. (RCMP)
12. Most of the Tamils in Canada came here illegally anyway.
13. If they were really interested in their “homeland” they would be there standing shoulder to shoulder with their terrorist brothers. But they don’t the cowards cut and ran rather than fight. They deserve no respect from real Canadian patriots who are standing up and dieing for their country in Afganistan.
14 The Tamils are only doing this because their losing the war right now and want a cease fire to regroup and rearm. Can anyone say Hamas.
We should just SEND THEM HOME they don’t consider Canada their home even the ones born here. (see CTV news April 11/2009)
Canada is not a a land of where you park your sorry ass until something better comes along!!!
Time to get with the program or get out…
CANADA!
WE LOVE YOU AS MUCH AS OUR MOHTERLAND.
DON’T LET US DOWN!
ACT NOW OR NEVER!!!
Its sad to say but this country is going for shit and its in part to closed minded morons like tim who blindly listen to the garbage thats fed to them by the children on the hill. Thats right Tim you were born with white skin your better than them.
In every single war the first casualty is truth. With regards to the conflict in Sri Lanka, truth is incredibly hard to come across. Why? Independent media banned. The world is barred from coming to the conflict zone. A genocide cannot happen while people were watching. Why were Jews sent away on trains to “concentration camps”? Because no one else were there to watch the atrocities. Although I do not deny the LTTE has their own propaganda, it simply does not become more obvious than the GoSL ban on media that there are things in the conflict zone they do not want the world to see.
I wish the Sinhalese people had relatives in or near the conflict zone. For if they did they would hear the truth, they would join us in these protests demanding a ceasefire. The poor Sinhalese boys in the 58th and 59th divisions(previously the worlds largest military division in the world) have no one to mourn their death except for the very people who they were killing, innocent Tamil civilians. The government does not tell the public of how many SLA are dying. The 58th division is in shambles; literally they only exist on paper. The 59th division numbers have been cut in half. If only these numbers were out all of the Sinhalese would be calling out for a ceasefire with us. Or not, they do not seem to have much regard for human life.
I honestly don’t understand what the problem is for the rest of us “Canadians”…about fifty years ago the Jews were being killed for no reason. NO one stood up to them. In Sri Lanka, the tamil people did, and now people who have family members back home are worried that their families back home are in danger, if not already dead. Everyone is acting like they did something for this country. I served four years with the Canadian Armed Forces. Everything I faced is happening in another country. Be proud that these people chose to pick up a flag and protest instead of picking up a gun.
How Canadians act sometimes make me feel ashamed of my service helping the world under the name of a Canadian, when we can’t even help ourselves.
2 months ago but still very relevant – Amy Goodman is the face of independent media – Stop getting your facts from the same bias right wing sources and think for yourself – its not illegal yet
http://www.democracynow.org/20.....ve_against
http://www.democracynow.org/20....._worsening
Let’s be realistic here.
Facts:
1) Srilankan gouvernment is doing to the tamils are crime against humanity. These tamils are raped, killed, bombed by srilankan armies for over 20 years. These tamils are no where to go. Their living condtions are below normal.
2) Half of tamils support Tigers. LTTE is also a tyrant miltant group. It kidnaps people, killed innocent tamils whoever speak against them, they got killed, and they also destroyed other tamil militant groups – because Tigers wanted to be “the voice” for tamils. They took the control of Tamils.
The reality is that most tamils moved to Europe and North America as refugees. They have been sending money to TIgers or even Tigers are collecting money for them. These ex-pat tamils are obligated to raise voice for Tigers – because tamils feel that these Tigers died for them.
The real truth is here that: Tamils in the West have no suppot with the Non-Tamils. This is the real sad of all…
These tamils moved to their new countries. Most are living in their ghettos, eating curries and marrying within themselves. Very few tamils are interacting with the non-whites. This is a BIG DRAW-BACK for the tamils. Because if their new country want to support the tamils, then the tamils should interact with others daily life. Like Chinese, Blacks, Indians…
And tamil gangs.. These incidents does not help the tamils living in these countries. Tamils do not have a “good name” here. It really does not help.
About the protests, If Canadians gouvernment ban Tigers, do not raise your flag here in this country – because you are not respecting this country law. This will really hurt Tamils long way to go. Some tamils do not even care about this. Because these tamils do not interact with other non-tamils.
If you want to protest, make a quiet protest, why you have to make such a noise? I was watching protest in Ottawa, and I was wondering if these protest will harm the tamil community in this country. Too loud, Too aggresive… It is NOT Canadian way.
Tamils decided to live in this country and they really have to earn their respect in this country. Fasting, (Not eating) and non-stop protest does not earn much respect for the tamils in this community. These young tamils will have tough time getting a job.
I wonder why these tamils do not really get this. One guy suggesting is that we will protest until Canadian gouvernment remove the ban. What kind of tone is that?
If you really care about your home land, and if you really care about the tigers, do not you think you should have stayed their and fight with Tigers? You left the country because you wanted to make money… You wanted to make your sister get married… You wanted to help your parents.. These are all good reasons… Then, PLEASE RESPECT YOUR NEW COUNTRY. BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO LIVE HERE FOR A LONG TIME.
I hope I am not offending anyone. I am stating the facts.. and I am pretty sure most tamils and non-tamils will understand this.
God Bless Tamils.
Scott on April 12th, 2009 8:45 am [#]
Its sad to say but this country is going for shit and its in part to closed minded morons like tim who blindly listen to the garbage thats fed to them by the children on the hill. Thats right Tim you were born with white skin your better than them.
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Sorry Scott , but if anyone is blindly following it’s you. Yes I am white, but there are millions of yellow, black, and brown skinned people in Canada that like myself consider Canada our one and only homeland. I and they are not hypen-ated Canadians who use this country as a “country of convienence” . You are either a Canadian or your not, you can’t be only a Canadian when it benefits you. People who have no allegience to the country and are using it as a safe haven to raise money for terrorist groups are the ones ruining it.
I listen to Reuters, CNN, BBC and other world news agencies for my information not the lies and drivel spewed by LTTE. So stop being a “liberal pinhead”.
Please help us or stand outside the picture.
You are not loosing anything by us supporting tigers. they are freedom fighters. I lost my dad in front of my eyes…. they killed him if front of us….. I was 9 and my sister was only 3. We were just one happy family until we loose our dad.
Please do some research about freedom fighters… It will only hurt you if you were affected by the singalese government and those who support them. I do not have anything against the singalese people i have lots of friends they even say that they are being cheated by the government. If we stand together we can be one of the best county in the world. Please help tigers and tamil civilians bring a peace talk to the table.
To bad about your dad, but let it go. I lost my dad in WW2 never met him. But don’t hate the Japanese. You are in this country to start over don’t let the past color your future. If you don’t consider yourself a Canadian but rather a Tamail and are determined to support the “freedom Fighters” then go back and fight with them show some balls. If not again “LET IT GO”. What’s done is done, it’s time to leave the past and look to a future life here in Canada.
Seems pretty simple to me, no matter what you think about the Tigers or the Govt of Sri Lanka….the International community must put pressure to free the media and get the world’s eyes into the country and evaluate the humanitarian situation.
Free press is essential to the foundation of a democratic state. I agree that you cannot trust a country that refuses to allow independent media to report.
Canada is not being solely asked to send Canadian troops there or provide financial support for anything. The UN was created in part for conflicts such as this and hence should act responsibly.
Now for any of you who say that things there are not that bad for the international community to get involved and that these Tamils are reacting to LTTE propaganda. I would like to point out that then you and the Western media are buying into the Govt of Sri Lanka’s propaganda, because all the sources that we get our news from are media that are pro-government which the Govt of Sri Lanka has led operate.
As for the Tamil people, your first and foremost priority right now is to bring things to a ceasefire and stop innocent civilian casuality, your point will be better conveyed to the rest of the world if you stop bringing tigers into these protests.
I have no personal interest in the conflict, but just taking a neutral look on things, I would say that the Government of Sri Lanka needs to be definitely watched for violating human rights.
Take a look at this documentary done by Australia’s SBS Dateline news show.
http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline.....the-Tigers
Tim
I cant believe you admit to getting your information from CNN and you think any free thinking person could ever take you seriously. And the CIA seriously? The CIA is the number one supplier of guns and drugs in the world. They also hire, fund and train terrorists. They assinate and over through democraticly elected leaders for their own gain. You really need to get past the Im a real Canadian because you were born here. Where do your grandparents come from? Wheather you come from Sri Lanka or Canada it doesnt matter, before all that we are all human beings. Inocent people are being slaughtered and thats the bottom line. This world belongs to all of us and it shouldnt be divided by invisible lines in the sand or flags on a pole. The world is a mess and until we start to care about the guy across the street and stop thinking only about ourselves for a change, we are done for. There is no such thing as rightwing, leftwing, conservative or liberal – theres the haves and the have-nots. Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. George Galloway was barred from this country for trying to help innocent people who were caught in the middle but because they were labeled a terrorist group he was banned from our country. This is a disgusting black mark against this great country and we really need to let people know the truth. How did it become that if you defend yourself against a bully you are some how a terrorist?
If the LTTE is banned in Canada how can these demonstrators are waving LTTE flags (with a head of a tiger and two crossed rifles) just in front of the Parliament Hill? Why RCMP is tolerating these acts?
MR.TIN ITS EASY FOR YOU TO SAY FORGET ABOUT THE FATHER AND GO ON WITH YOUR LIFE…COZ YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO IS YOUR FATHER MORON…OUR PEOPLE LIVES ARE IN DANGER EVERYDAY…YOU NEVER GONA KNOW THAT FEELING TILL YOU GET HURTTT!
THANKZ SCOTT WE ARE WITH THE REAL CANADIANS NO MATTER WHATTT…THEY NEVER GONA LET US DOWNN!
Its called freedom of speech and the right to assemble “woods” and without it we would have nothing. Ever notice how countries are removed from the terrorist list when it financially benifits the west? Iraq was removed from the list in 1982 so the usa could sell them military technology to fight Iran. Libya has the 10 biggest oil reserves in Africa and produces 1.712 million bbl/day – I wonder why they were removed from the terrorist list? Petro Canada cashed in on that one. How could a country that was the bases for so many great (sarcasm) hollywood blockbuster (propaganda) movies be removed from the list? How quickly we forget Pan Am Flight 103 when big oil contracts are up for grabs. So when people say they dont want these terrorists in Canada – just remember that one of the worlds biggest terrorists and commitors of war crimes (George Bush) was freely allowed to visited Calgary in march, that didnt seem to be a problem.
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.
May be reading this will make people understand things. Very sorry to hear that some people feel like this is a waste of everything. But everyone who is there got a life and a lifestyle too. many are graduates and has great jobs in many different field. If they are taking their time to be here, then there must be a reason. Please read more before making a comment.
Have any of you walked through dead bodies…I have.. People who is making all these nasty comments… do you even have an idea where most of these war take place… mostly in North.. the people in the south(the Singalise), never have to live in fear for their life.People in north|(tamils), live in a stage where they go to sleep without knowing if they ll see the world tomorrow.
We talk, We proteest coz we know how it is to live fearing death. Can you imagine your sister or mother or daughter or G/F to be raped in front of you then killed… That is what the Singalese Armies are doing to the Tamils… and do you think that is war?…..
I know you all got a life to live.. WE do too.. but there is many standing in Ottawa knowing if their loved ones back home are alive or not….
You dont have to support us but dont discourage us. This is what had happed to the Jews.. now us… It could happen to you tomorrow and people might act how you are reacting to us.
Hope reading this article open up some idea of what s happening.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm.....-editorial
LTTE is not a terrorist MIND IT. They are the one who is asking and fighting for peace for the TAMILS CIVILIANS. SINGALESE goverment are in my perspective unrespectable,unhonourouble devil Terreorist. We all know that in Srilanka 300000 Tamils Civilians captured by teh goverment and they are lieing that there is only 7000. Are they trying to Kill the remainder 230000 Tamil Civilians without noticing to the WORLD.The world should take action Now. Tamils = Jewish. This is what Hitlor did to the jewish back in 1940 and now Mahinda Rajapakshe the president of Srilanka is doing the same thing to the Tamils. If all of you guys read the Diary of Anne Frank you should know what exactly is happening to the Tamils in Srilanka. Otto Frank spoked for her daughter. I am speaking now for the Thousand of Anne frank (Tamils KIDS) back in Srilanka. World open all of your eyes and speak for a CEASE fire
The reason the protesting by Tamil people for ceasefire!!. This sound like Funny!!. Because last year they said they don’t believe any countries on this problem and they can win Srilankan government by they own army and by weapons. They always believe weapon is the only solution to get their separate country.
Now what is going on in north part of Srilanka? Srilankan army capture almost every single places who LTTE live before. LTTE have only 20km now. They lost there power so LTTE supporters want ceasefire now, to protect the LTTE terrorist. Not the civilians. Canada should consider to realise civilians who stuck with LTTE (human shield)
I am a Tamil, who supported the armed struggle as the only means to achieve dignity in Sri Lanka but today, I feel the armed struggle harmed the Tamil community and many who live in Sri Lankan are trapped in a meaningless war. Those who are protesting here in Ottawa are not concerned about the plight of the people there ,but want to support a fascist organisation called LTTE, which killed thousands of Tamils, Leaders from all the other groups, Rajeev Ghandi and many intellectuals from the Tamil Community. No one says the Sri Lankan government has no problem and it continues to carry out large scale human rights violations but emergence of LTTE and its totalitarian politics destroyed the Tamil Struggle and the community. Those who came to this country feels they owe something to LTTE as it created condition for them to come here, but those people who are trapped in Sri Lanka are suffering due to LTTE’s politics. Many of those who were born and brought up here may not know the true situation in Sri Lanka and brain washed by the LTTE, which uses threat to control the Tamil media here in Canada to promote their ideology. If Canadian politicians pamper these elements for catching votes, they will not only harm the Tamils living in Sri Lanka but also create a ghetto politics here which will endanger democracy in this country. Canadian government has a responsibility to put pressure on the Sri Lankan government to have a political frame work to resolve the issue and bring accountability. But they should not allow the LTTE to take the Tamil people for ransom to promote their suicidal politics.
-Gopal
The LTTE may not have started out as a terrorist organization, and their intentions may have been good.
What turned them into a terrorist organization was when they realized that the practices they (and other groups) were using weren’t providing results fast enough (or at all), and they changed their tactics. The path they chose included activities and actions utilized by terrorists.
What they were does not justify what they are now. They have become terrorists.
As such, the Government of Canada has named them on the official recognized terrorist organization list. This came about because of the actions and the behaviors of the LTTE. Whether you like that or not, agree with it or not, the facts and actions speak for themselves.
The LTTE may not have started out as a terrorist organization, and their intentions may have been good.
What turned them into a terrorist organization was when they realized that the practices they (and other groups) were using weren’t providing results fast enough (or at all), and they changed their tactics. The path they chose included activities and actions utilized by terrorists.
What they were does not justify what they are now. They have become terrorists.
As such, the Government of Canada has named them on the official recognized terrorist organization list. This came about because of the actions and the behaviors of the LTTE. Whether you like that or not, agree with it or not, the facts and actions speak for themselves.
Hi there, I’m and Canadian-Indian (Canadian first, south indian racially). And sorry LTTE Tamils, Sri lanka has never been your homeland, South India is. And please tell me, why are you here in Canada ? After all the horror stories i have heard coming from toronto, especially what the LTTE suporters do to the tamils who do not support their illegal cause. The tamil homeland is a myth, it does not exist. I really hope tamil LTTE supporters do not try and make Scarborough their homeland one day. I am from Ottawa, and there is no sympathy here for the protesters, to be quite honest, its a wrong place to protest, how stupid does the LTTE think we Ottawans are. And please pay for the costs of this illegal protests, I do not want my hard earned tax dollars to cover the millions of dollars we have spent already on these protests in our Capital.
Have a referendum among Tamils and let the Tamils to decide their own future. United Nation should be there to monitor the referendum. Democracy is for all, including Tamils. Sri Lankan Sinhalese government or any others can’t choose the Tamils’ representatives. Tamils have the right to decide their represents and their own destiny.
The Indian High Commissioner in Mauritius rebuffed a memorandum of thousands of Mauritian Tamil demonstrators Friday, requesting India to stop the war against Tamils in Sri Lanka. The representatives of the demonstrators were seeking to submit the memorandum in person to the High Commissioner who is a Tamil and they had informed the High Commission of their request five days in advance. On Friday, Third Secretary Ms Menon and the Deputy High Commissioner who received them, turned down their request. Angered at the contempt, the demonstrators chose to burn the memorandum outside the High Commission. The Vice Prime Minister of Mauritius and the Justice Minister were active participants of the emotion-charged demonstration, organized by National Movement Against Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka, reports Koomaran Chetty from Mauritius.
http://www.tamilnet.com
Only one thing to consider…
They want off the terrorist list so that they can continue to accrue funds to send back to their fighters in Sri Lanka.
This is not the way to end this conflict, this would only lengthen a ongoing Civil War. You come to Canada, leave your “baggage” before entering here please.
if there is estimated to be 25,000 at the protest on tuesday and so many seem to be able to take so much time off of work why don’t these people go to sri lanka and make a difference! they love their country and want change,well make change ,don’t scream and yell and expect our government to not only give you refuge but then after you make a concious choice to leave that country to make it better for the family & friends you left behind.I’ll tell you one thing if this ever happened in canada people would not leave no matter how bad it got they would fight tooth and nail and take back their country no matter the cost.i wonder how much these people would be willing to do for canada if they faced a choice.
Since 1948 Genocide has been an act that has been actively prevented and punished, it is a crime against humanity. If the Sri Lankan government cannot suppress the atrocities then perhaps the UN should step in and encourage other nations to send support for the people who are caught in the Northern regions of Sri Lanka. The Tamils are an ethnic group and not all Tamils are involved in the terrorist groups’ activities, they are defending their human rights for independence as they have been oppressed for generations by the Sinhalese. As a nation with at least some power, we should be concerning our selves with the prevention of genocide in Sri Lanka and other countries. as lives are being lost, focus needs to be realigned with human rights and protecting innocent lives. Otherwise, what was the UN set up for?
Dinoj on April 13th, 2009 11:19 am [#]
MR.TIN ITS EASY FOR YOU TO SAY FORGET ABOUT THE FATHER AND GO ON WITH YOUR LIFE…COZ YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO IS YOUR FATHER MORON…OUR PEOPLE LIVES ARE IN DANGER EVERYDAY…YOU NEVER GONA KNOW THAT FEELING TILL YOU GET HURTTT!
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There are over a million Tamils in exile around the world which means there are hundreds of thousands of able bodied men between 18 and 38 out there. Why didn’t you all go and fight for your homeland instead of expecting us to do it for you. No “balls” The war will be over shortly anyway and nothing you do will change that. Chalk one up for the good guys (the Sri Lankan Gov’t.) you “pinhead”.
scott on April 13th, 2009 10:44 am [#]
Tim
You really need to get past the I m a real Canadian because you were born here. Where do your grandparents come from?
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My family came to Canada in 1778. Prior to that for 110 years they lived in Connecticut having arrived from England in at the Port of New Amsterdam in 1668. I have no other homeland other than Canada and consider myself only a Canadian not a hyphenated Canadian with a duel passport and no allegiance to this country.
To all the “Canadians of convenience” out there using Canada a a hotel, if you want to be a “real Canadian” give up the other passport, refer to your birth country, if that applies, as your ancestral home and pledge your allegiance to Canada only and leave the ethnic hatreds back in the old country. Otherwise go home and leave us in peace. I assure you no one will miss you.
Dear Tim,
For someone who as been in Canada as long as you and your family, you don’t know the first thing about Canada and The Charter of Rights and Freedom. Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability. I really don’t care how long you have been here, but these tamil people have as much of a right to be here and to protest as you do. If your going to speak of your socialistic views, at least back it up with knowledge you arrogrant little SOB and learn your charter of Right before you call someone else a “pinhead” pinhead.
Tamil Tigers are a terrorist organization. they are now forcibly keeping innocent tamily people asa shiled to fight the govenment. shame on you Don Davies ( Federal NDP MP ) for taking sides of a terrorist organization that are banned in US, UK, Canada and many other countries. Federal NDP will do anything to get noticed. Kuddos to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his memembers of Parliament for not talking to world ruthless terrorist organization called ” Tamil Tigers”.
I agree with comments, if Tigers want to fight , they should go back to sri lanka and do it. We are all canadian. if they cant accept that, go back to sri lanka and fight for whatyou think what is right for you.
Tamils are not asking for the world to beleive us…we just want the press and media in the war zone..so that you can see for yourself the atrosity of the Sri Lankan Government. It’s a WAR WITHOUT WITNESSES…. During the 2 day ceasefire (or so they say) they let thousands of civilains escape to safe home…MORE LIKE CONCENTRATION CAMPS… and the SRI LANKAN ARMY used the tamil civilians as human shield.. WHAT is this crazyness…….
They claim to be strong beleivers of BUDHISM….IM PRETTY SURE that the religion doesn’t say killlling and torture and rape..is accceptable IN ANY FORM……..
PLEASE LET THE MEDIA IN THE WAR ZONE>
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING LINK….why was the JAFFNA PUBLIC LIBRARY BURN IN 1981 by the singala police and ministers???? becuase the library was the only place that had records of the true settlers of SRI LANKA. tamils were the first on the land…and the JAFFNA PUBLIC LIBRARY WAS THE ONLY PLACE THAT HAS EVIDENCE OF THAT… and that is the reason of the arson that left alllllllll booooks in ashes… THE TAMILS ARE ONLY FIGHTING FOR WHAT IS RIGHTFUULLLLLY THEIR TO START OF WITH..BEFORE TH BRITISH CAME AND LEFT LEAVIGN THE SINGALA MAJORITY TO GOVERN….
PLEASE PLEASE READ THE LING B ELOW/
http://www.tamilnation.org/ind.....ict016.htm
TIM IS AN IDIOT..GETTIN INFO FROM THE INTERNET..EXACTLY WHAT THE SRI LANKAN GOVERNMENT WANTS
Sinthu, The first People in Sri lanka were the Veddas (don’t know the spelling), Tamils are Dravidians from INDIA, let me say that again INDIA, ok one more time INDIA. Sorry, but I follow real history and not some bullshit fed to me to pursue an unjust and violent cause. And Sinhalese are From INDIA too, want me to repeat it again, and again. FFS. Adn don’t forget that for centuries the two people lived as one. Thank the brits for dividing you both.
Sinthu on April 22nd, 2009 12:27 pm [#]
TIM IS AN IDIOT..GETTIN INFO FROM THE INTERNET..EXACTLY WHAT THE SRI LANKAN GOVERNMENT WANTS
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As opposed to what getting your imformation from the LTTE propaganda wing?
The war is over you lost get over it and if all of you (over a million worldwide) went home you could democratically vote your way into a Quebec style homeland in maybe 20 years. But you won’t because you haven’t the balls.
Canadian Government should learn from this story. These troubled “Canadians” are bringing with them in Canada their problems. They are in fact Tamil tigers with Canadian passports. Actually they are not even trueTamil tigers since they are cowardly trying to force Canadians (with illegal, disrupting protests) to fight for their cause. 100% agree with philantropist. They should be in Sri Lanka fighting for the cause they believe in.
Finnaly, why RCMP was not able to handle the illegal protests according to the law?
Tim, the CIA said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq…
Vithya & others get their info from http://bit.ly/A0Nby but should read http://www.uthr.org/new.htm & http://tiny.cc/by2ug for a more balanced view.
The LTTE Tamil Tigers do have links to PLO related terrorist groups & many Tamils (like me) are OK with them being banned. We just don’t say this to Black July ’83 Tamils because they view LTTE as a “Robin Hood” group that protected Tamils from Indian Peacekeeping Forces & Lankan military atrocities. In truth, the Tamil Tigers are more like Geronimo since they held back Sinhalese colonisation schemes in northern Sri Lanka but often victimized thier own ethnic people.
Tamil protest road block May 2009 incident http://tiny.cc/z6qAq could have been avoided if PM Harper had gone on the air when they were protesting in Ottawa April 2009 & said he would have foreign affairs officials communicate with Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states to have a positive influence for Tamil IDPs in Sri Lanka. It’s those member states who could make a real difference. Foreign Affairs might have advised PM Harper on this if he bothered to ask them. Canada has influence mainly via CIDA. Many Tamil Canadians who protested still have family members stuck in those concentration camps. Others held up signs asking Canadians to donate to UNICEF. It’s outrageous that Harper got Saul Hayes Human Rights Award after the incident. Jews have been here longer & tend to vote Tory? Who cares about Tamils? …
Before you accuse me of being anit-semitic, I’m well aware of IsraAID.
Ex-UN’s Jan Egeland Describes “Horror” In Sri Lanka, Says R2P Has Failed, UN Silent
..we can “safely assume… horrors” in the treatment of “women in Sri Lanka, Tamils,” due to the continuing denial of access not only to humanitarian review but also “witnesses.”
http://tiny.cc/2X06C
Listen to a non-Tamil Christian Sri Lankan lady who says it best http://www.youtube.com/watch?=JTRKOdlJz7o
Harper’s glory
http://tiny.cc/fXAnu
http://tiny.cc/oHaDq
http://tiny.cc/HhLIn
Shaan,
In many forums, the Sinhalese are vehemently arguing that they are the descendants of Aryans. British Empire’s Colonel Henry Olcott and protestant Buddhism’s denial of the Universalism view of religion are to blame for this false view of their own history.
Sinhala mythical heritage acknowledges inter marriage with Tamil women of the Island. The story of Vijaya itself confirms that Tamils were on the island as long as the Sinhalese. If you factor in time & historic racial make-up of Lanka you realize that genetically..
Sinhalese are Dravidians just like the Tamils. Does Shaan expect 99% of the popluation to move back to India? There is also some evidence to indicate some polynesian heritage in both groups. http://www.srilankaguardian.or.....frica.html
http://hgucolombo.org/SLGVD.aspx
The Bengalis, the Tamils, and the Veddahs are considered parental populations for the Sinhalese. The Bengali contribution is 25.41%, the Tamil contribution is 69.86%, and the Veddah contribution is only 4.73%. I suspect the Benagli component is over stated since it was so long ago & Sinhalese look like Dravidians to me. Funny how they are so ashamed to be Dravidian, they really bought into British “divide & rule.”
http://video.nytimes.com/video.....rmath.html