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Canadian Tamils demonstrate against Canada's approval for massacre of school girls

World: Canadian Tamils demonstrate against Canada's approval for massacre of school girls

Friday, 18 August 2006

More than 25 000 Canadian Tamils gathered outside the country's parliament in Ottawa to demand that their government condemns the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) for massacring 51 young school girls on Monday, in north-east Sri Lanka.

People of all ages including community leader and relatives of the victims participated in the demonstration.

Holding home-made placards showing photos of recent massacres carried out by the Sri Lankan armed forces, the demonstrators demanded that Sri Lanka be proscribed as a terrorist state and that Sri Lankan officials be brought to the International Criminal Court to face charges of war crimes and crimes and crimes against humanity.

Demonstrators also requested the Canadian government to exert maximum pressure on the GoSL to cease its 50 years long campaign of genocide against the Tamil community on the island.

Tamil demonstrators took the opportunity to thank Canada for saving them from the Sri Lankan armed forces.

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puzledhni said:

Good but to be more affective we need to boycott Sri Lanka and ensure the world knows about the state terrorism. Having what I call the "fake" Indians playing cricket and having a docile Tamil, Murali playing for Sri Lanka are things that should not be happening as I write.

2006-08-18 13:22:41

annoj said:

ye i did not got the ottawa protest but i went do the st.claire protest just a day before the ottawa protest

2006-08-18 16:34:04

simbu said:

whats this i hear about conclusive videos that the camp had child soldiers in it? is there any proof?

2006-09-06 20:16:38

Vikram said:

Our community needs to stay together and show that we are not terrorists.

2006-10-19 20:47:24

shaan fernando said:

I believe in giving the area of the Tamil for them to rule but demanding a separate state in Sri Lanka is not a reality and unjust call. Think less than 15% is demanding for 2/3 of the land area and 3/4 of the sea area where would over 80% go? so we have to come to realities, instead of demanding for a separate state demand for ruling North and East would be a possible option, that is negotiable and could be achieved but a separate state is not a possibility at all.

2006-10-22 14:16:06

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