Sri Lanka: Canada’s hypocrisy
Posted on January 3rd, 2010

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .Canada

January 2, 2010

Hon. Lawrence Cannon,
MP
Minister of Foreign Affairs
House of Commons, Ottawa.

Dear Lawrence Cannon:

I hope you had the time to read todayƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s OTTAWA CITIZEN.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  In case you didnƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢t itƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s worth a glance.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  The headline on its front page said FIVE FALLEN, FIVE MOURNED above the photo image of five caskets carried by soldiers at Khandahar Airfield wrapped in Canada flags.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  It said the journalist Michelle LangƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s casket was the first of five slain Canadians to be carried by pallbearers into military transport aircraft during FridayƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s somber ceremony at Kandahar airfield.

Elsewhere on page 1 were news items titled ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” DND steps up hunt for IEDs: New surveillance aircraft to patrol AfghanistanƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s skies by summer, and another titled: ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Soldiers pay respects after CanadaƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”dark dayƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢.

Page A4 headlined another news item:ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Canada to assist anti-terror effort in Yemen.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Warship to join NATO Mission to block al-Qaeda insurgents.

IsnƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢t this wild Lawrence?ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  This is the same Canada that had difficulty to acknowledge the mighty single-handed task of the Sri Lankan Government of wiping out the Tamil Tigers, the most ruthless terrorist outfit in the world which your party banned in April 2006.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  This is the very group which showed the Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan how to use improvised explosive devises (IEDs) which got our five Canadians. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ And you shamelessly put out a pathetic press release from your Foreign Affairs office not even congratulating the Sri Lankan government when other countries did. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ This is the height of hypocrisy in the raw. Then of course, it was understandable as other countries did not have 250,000 Tamils who had come over ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ searching for greener pastures, the majority as economic refugees after the 1983 riots and among them there were most definitely 100,000 votes that we Conservatives were eyeing to claw in during the next federal election. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ WasnƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢t that pathetic and invidious, Lawrence?

We Canadians are thumping our chests today with anger and spitting dragon-fire from our cart wheeling eyes at the Taliban terrorists for these five killings, but then during the 27 years of Tamil Tiger terrorism, such incidents were an everyday affair in Sri Lanka. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ It did seem that Canada didnƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢t care two God-damn prairie Canola straws, as long as we Conservatives were able to garner some of these Tamil votes. Bloody shame on us, Lawrence!ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Damn shame!

There is a reason for me to say ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-WeƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚, Lawrence.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  It is because I am a card carrying Conservative and a Sustaining Donor for your party.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  And last May, I claimed my right to protest at your pathetic response with that sickening Press Release slapping Sri LankaƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s wrists for wiping out the Tamil Tigers when Canada was forced to lose its vanity when puny Sri Lanka asked us to mind our own God damn business and go fly a kite when we pressured them for a ceasefire at the latter days of the war to save Prabhakaran and his no good suicide bombing ilk.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  I refused to contribute a single penny for the Conservative coffers for the rest of last year, and I felt good about it.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  And I wouldnƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢t hesitate to repeat it again.

Turn to page A9 of the OTTAWA CITIZEN, which has another news item headlined ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” A salute to a fallen comradeƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…- Ceremony to attend by troops from dozen countriesƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚. and down the page the news item is

This is what terrorism has done to Canada and these incidents, thank God, have been sporadic.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  But in Sri Lanka such terrorist incidents were an every day affair for a long 27 years, when claymore mines routinely blasted hundreds of innocent commuters in buses, trains and street corners which included men, women, pregnant mothers and school children.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  And their chest-thumping families had to piece together the puzzle of parts of skulls, fingers, arms, limbs and body parts and placed them in caskets to be buried.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  And when this happened to be an every day affair, the most that you, my Foreign Minister could do was to put out a pathetic press release after these Tamil Tiger terrorists were wiped out.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  That was sick, Lawrence.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Not an honourable Canadian attitude, was it now?

Lawrence, it is time you act like an honourable Canadian and recognize that the innocent Sri Lankans who were blasted to smithereens by the Tamil Tigers were also children of the same God who looked over his brave Canadian soldier-children from the heavens above the Canadian skies whose lives were snuffed out by another brand of terrorists. Stop being mean to Sri Lanka, because Canada will get no where with our immoral stance wanting to pander to the thousands of Tamils who demonstrated on parliament hill and took over our transport arteries in Toronto and Ottawa last April and May.

Ha! ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ You lily-white Canadian politicians tell the world that you are concerned about Human Rights violations in Sri Lanka.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  What a crock of cods-wallop Lawrence.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  DonƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢t forget that the 100,000 innocent civilians who died in Sri Lanka during the Tamil Tiger war too had their right-to-life violated by the Tamil Tigers, the friends of the Liberal Party as well as our Red Tories.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  And what did you all do about it?ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Sweet nothing!

LetƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s not second guess this Conservative, as I am still livid and sick of your pathetic response on behalf of Canada for not acknowledging Sri LankaƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s valour for wiping out of the most ruthless terrorist outfit in the world who showed the Taliban, how to kill our Canadians with IEDs and suicide bombers.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  That is where the rub is.

Sincerely,

Asoka Weerasinghe

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