Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 17 January 2020Ms. Meenakshi GangulySouth Asia DirectorHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH350 Fifth Avenue34th FloorNew York, NY 10118-3299USA Dear Ms. Meenakshi Ganguly: What’s this that I read, a nasty bit of news reported by Human Rights Watch from New York which said, Respect for […]

Asoka Weearsinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 6 January 2020 Ambassador Hanspeter MockAmbassador for Switzerland in Sri Lanka63 Gregory’s RoadColombo 7Sri Lanka Dear Ambassador Hanspeter Mock: Since I wrote you last year, on 29 December 2019, I have been reading the continuation of your Switzerland Saga in Sri […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 29 December 2019 Ambassador Hanspeter MockAmbassador for Switzerland in Sri Lanka63 Gregory’s RoadColombo 7Sri Lanka Sir: MOCK MOCK” (Asoka Weerasinghe-AW) Who is there?” (Hanspeter Mock -HPM) It’s Hanspeter” (AW)  Hanspeter who…?” (HPM) It’s Hanspeter..the diplomat … from the Alps” (AW) Ah..No… […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada  4 December 2019 Ambassador  Hanspeter MockAmbassador for Switzerland  in Sri Lanka63 Gregory’s Road Colombo 7Sri Lanka Dear Ambassador HansPeter Mock: While your beautiful country is getting ready with mulled wine, Christmas Music, twinkling lights decking almost every tree around the country, […]

Asoka Weerasinghe. Kings Grove Crescent . Ottawa. Ontario  . K1J 6G1 . Canada 14 November 2019 Rt. Hon. Maithripala SirisenaPresident of Sri LankaPresident’s SecretariatGalle FaceColombo 1Sri Lanka. Mr. President: Re: Granting Presidential pardon to 34-year-old Shramantha Jude Anthony Jayamaha who was serving a life sentence for murdering 19-year old Yvonne Johnsson at Rajagiriya’s Royal Park […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Ottawa-Vanier 17 September 2019 Jag SahotaConservative Candidate for  the Calgary-Skyview Riding Campaign for Canada’s Federal election of October 2019, seeking Ananda Wijesinghe’s VOTE.. Hi Jag:I am not in your riding but in the Ottawa-Vanier Constituency. You might ask – Why the heck are you writing to me then?  It is a dam good […]

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 11 July 2019 His Excellency David McKinnonCanadian High Commissioner for Sri LankaCanadian High Commission33A  5th LaneColpettyColombo 3Sri Lanka. Dear High Commissioner David McKinnon: Re: Canada distorts the Truth about Tamil Genocide allegations in Sri Lanka  I read with hurried interest […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 1 June 2019 Mayor Patrick Brown, MPP Office of the MayorCity of Brampton2  Wellington  Street WestBramptonOntario L6Y 4R2 Your Worship Mayor Patrick Brown: Oops! Did someone  shatter your and your City Councillors Moral Code of We are Holier than Thou” when you […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 23 May 2019 Mayor Patrick Brown of BramptonCity HallBrampton, Ontario Dear Mayor Patrick  Brown: Bravo! and you finally did it.   You were stroking the Ontario’s Tamil Tigers faces holding onto their tails, for almost a decade, even when you represented Barrie as a […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 10 May 2019 Mayor John ToryCity Hall, 2nd Floor100 Queen Street WToronto, OntarioM5H 2N2 Dear Mayor John Tory: A friend of mine sent me a copy of your Proclamation – Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day, May 18, 2019” Sweet Mother of Jesus, is this true […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 8 May 2019 Mayor Jim Watson & Councillor Tim Tierney (Beacon Hill)City of Ottawa110 Laurier WestOttawa, OnK1P 1J1 Your Worship Jim Watson & Councillor Tim Tierney: Re:  The intention of Tamil Canadians wanting the City of Ottawa to Declare May 18, 2019 as […]

Asoka Weerasinghe  Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 3 May 2019 Mayor Patrick Brown, MPP Office of the MayorCity of Brampton2 Wellington Street WestBrampton, OntarioL6Y 4R2 Councillors: Rowena Santos, Paul Vicente,  Doug Whillans,  Michael Palleschi,  Jeff Bowman, Martin Medeiros,  Charmaine Williams, Pat Fotini, Harkirat Singh, Gurpreet Dhillon Dear Mayor Patrick Brown: […]

Asoka Weerasinghe  Kings Grove Crescent. Gloucester. Ontario .K1J 6G1. Canada 28 March 2019 Chief Minister Hon. Edappadi K. Palaniswami Office of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Veda Nilayam 81/36  Poes Garden Chennai -600 086 Tamil Nadu India. Cc:Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights       UNHRC, Geneva       Lord Naseby, House of Lords, […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 20 January 2019 Hon. Tilak Marapana Minister of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sir Baron Jayathilaka Mawatha Colombo 1 Sri Lanka Dear Honourable Minister: I was intrigued to read the news item Marapana instructs Lankan diplomats to boost image of […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada  15 December 2018 MIKE ADLER TORONTO. COM Dear Mike: Re: Tamil Heritage Month launch reflects pain of Sri Lanka’s war. With my ongoing interest in this 30 year long Tamil Eelam War in my Homeland, Sri Lanka, which ended with the last bullet […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent Gloucestd,m Ontario. This response to Henry’s (USA) pertinent question to my response to Canadian High Commissioner David McKinnon’s meeting with former LTTE terrorists in Mullaitivu, recently. He asks: “Is there a possibility that newspapers in Canada will give due publicity to letters such as yours.” The answer is : Yes Henry.  […]

 Asoka Weerasinghe  Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada December 10, 2018 High Commissioner David McKinnon Canadian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka 33A, 5th Lane Colpetty, Colombo 3 Sri Lanka. Dear High Commissioner David McKinnon: I was a bit chafed to see your photo with former LTTE fighters in Mullaitivu in the latest […]

Guest Speaker : Asoka Weerasinghe,  SLUNA – AGM, Saturday, 24 November 2018, at Advent Lutheran Church, 2800 Don Mills Road, Toronto, Ontario Mr. President of SLUNA, Members of the Executive Committee, Your Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, the Daughters and Sons of my Mother Lanka and Friends of my Mother Lanka; This is the topic: ‘Current UNHRC […]

 Asoka Weerasinghe  Kings Grove Crescent  .  Gloucester  .  Ontario . Canada 7 November 2018 Honourable Doug Ford Premier of Ontario Legislative Building Queen’s Park Toronto, Ontario M74 1A1 Dear Hon. Premier Doug Ford:  Re: Mr. Vijay Thanigasalam, Conservative MPP for Scarborough-Rouge Park’s Statement at the Ontario Legislative Assembly on 30th October, 2018 (Hansard) on Sri […]

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 20 July 2018 OPEN LETTER TO R. SAMPANTHAN MP Hon. R. Sampanthan, MP representing TNA Leader of the Opposition of the Government of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Parliament Colombo, Sri Lanka., Dear Mr. Sampanthan: What is this dishonest garbage that you […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .Canada 10 June 2018 John Argue Amnesty International’s Coordinator for Sri Lanka Toronto Ontario. Dear John: I stumbled onto your interview with Sulochana Ramaiah Mohan which was headlined 40,000 death claim should be researched. Reading it, I wasn’t sure whether I should laugh at it or cry. […]

Asoka .Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 17 May 2018 The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Ottawa Dear Editor: The anti-Buddha witch-hour happened again sharp at 12:45 this morning, when a man carrying about a 6-foot long 2″x 4″ crossed the road opposite the Heron Gate Senior Community Center and entered […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . ontario , Canada 30 April 2018 Mona Fortier, Liberal  MP for Ottawa-Vanier Justice Bldg., Suite 809 House of Commons Ottawa K1A 0A6 URGENT FOR YOUR ATTENTION Dear  Ms. Mona Fortier:: By now you may have received an invitation to grace the Closing Forum at the Parliament Hill, […]

 Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent, Gloucester ; Ontario . Canada 29 April 2018 The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Ottawa Dear Editor (Letters) The  moment the heavy iron rod came down on the neck of the white sitting Buddha statue decapitating it on the front lawn of the Buddhist temple, Hilda Jayewardenaramaya, on Heron Road, […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 21 April 2018 Jack MacLaren, Independent (Trillium Party) MPP for Carleton-Mississippi Mills, Ontario Cc. Premier Kathleen Wynne, MPP Dear Jack MacLaren: ‘Sweet Mother of Jesus!’  What’s all this that I read in the Toronto Sun of April 12, 2018,  bylined Bonokoski which […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 16 March 2018 The Editor (Letters) The Ottawa Citizen Dear Editor: On Friday, 16th morning, the Buddhist monks of the Hilda Jayewardenaramaya at 1481 Heron Road, woke up to a heartbreaking sight outside on the Monastery’s front lawn. The four-foot white Buddha […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 12 March 2018 Hon. Chrystia Freeland Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Room 509S Centre Block, House of Commons Ottawa, On KiA OA6 Dear Minister Chrystia Freeland: As a Sri Lankan Buddhist-Canadian, who has lived in Canada since 1968 and in Ottawa since 1970, permit […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 23 February 2018 Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Dear Editior You published Christie Blatchford’s Comment Libs have tolerance for convicted terrorists. on  page NP2 in today’s paper. Wrong! . Libs have tolerance for terrorists, period, as they have shown their promotion of the Tamil Tiger […]

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .  Canada 26 January, 2018 President Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka Ceremonial Opening of the TGTE Parliament in Canada  Dear President Maithripala Sirisena: By now you may have heard that a major anti-Sri Lanka event took […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 1 January 2018 Garnett Genuis, MP Conservative MP for Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta Cc. Matt DeCourcey, Liberal MP Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister  of Foreign Affairs Dear Garnett Genuis: May the year ahead be filled with Happiness, Love and Joy and hopefully will bring […]