Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada
October 1, 2009
 
The Editor
EMBASSY
Ottawa
 
Sir:
Your “Analysis: Canada’s UN General Assembly speech” by Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon gave me a good chuckle.
 
He said, it was the responsibility of individual countries “to eradicate terrorism in all its forms”, and yet,  Canada took umbrage when Sri Lanka single handed [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
September 29, 2009
Hon. David Miliband, MP
Minister of Foreign Affairs House of House of Parliament Westminster London, UK
Dear David:
I just read that you had a tripartite meeting with Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Ranjith Bogollagama accompanied by your Bobbsey Twin French Foreign Minister Bernard [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada
September 27, 2009
Hon. Lawrence Cannon, MP, PC
Minister of Foreign Affairs
House of  Commons
Ottawa
Dear Lawrence:
What you said in your speech at the UN last night (Sept.26), “It is part of our responsibility as Canadians – and the responsibility of the United Nations – to eradicate terrorism [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Gloucester . Ontario . Canada
September 24, 2009
Dr. Ellyn Shander MD     
Psychiatrist – New  Cannan
Connecticut 
US
Dear Ellyn Shander:
Well…well…well, what do you know?  I just read a Colombo Page News Desk Report that, “The Indian Government has issued a look Out Circular (LOC) against Dr. Ellyn Shander, an American Doctor who is a known Liberation Tigers of [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe. Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1. Canada
September 21, 2009
Prof. Philip Alston
UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions
c/o OHCHR-UNOG 1211
Geneva Switzerland.
Dear Professor Alston: 
I have been following your contentious involvement on the Channel 4 video clip with immense interest, which alleges Sri Lankan soldiers shooting Tamils.
There have been so [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
September 20, 2009
Bishop John Arnold  
Diocese of Westminster  
Vaughan House 
46 Francis Street   
London SW1P 1QN
Dear Bishop Arnold:
On September 16, I wrote you in response of your combined statement with Bishop John Rawsthorne of Sheffield in which you called on the Government of Sri Lanka to [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
September 17, 2009
Prof. Philip Alston  
Special  Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Execution                                                                                                                                                                                   United Nations Human Rights Council 
Geneva, Switzerland
Dear Prof. Alston:
With all due respect to you, I am not being facetious when I tell you that I had a garrulous laugh with my stomach doing [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe  Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
September 16, 2009
Bishop John Arnold
Diocese of Westminster V
aughan House
46 Francis Street London SW1P 1QN
Dear Bishop Arnold:
I have just read a Reuter’s report which said: “Bishop John Rawsthorne of Sheffield and Bishop John Arnold of Westminster call for Tamils displaced by civil war [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
September 11, 2009
Chief  Executive
Channel 4 
 P.O.Box 1058                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Belfast, BT1 9DU
Sir:
I wrote to you on August 30, 2009 with reference to your broadcast of the video clip of the shooting deaths of unarmed people, who you described as Tamils, allegedly shot by the Sri [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario Canada
September 10, 2009
The Editor,                                                                                                                                                                                      
EMBASSY                                                                                                                                                                                 
Ottawa
Sir:
“Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon chastised the Government of Sri Lanka last week after Tamil journalist J.S. Tissainayagam was handed a lengthy prison term for articles printed in the North Eastern Magazine in 2006 and 2007”, you said.
That statement had an insular taste of hypocrisy and [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Gloucester . Ontario Canada
September 6, 2009
Hon. Jack Layton, MP (NDP, Toronto-Danforth);  Wayne Marston, MP (NDP, Hamilton East-Stoney ; Paul Dewar, MP (NDP, Ottawa Centre); Peter Julian, MP (NDP, Burnaby); Jim Karygiannis, MP (Liberal, Scarborough-Agincourt); Robert Oliphant, MP (Liberal, Don Valley West) Dan McTeague, MP (Liberal, Pickering-Scarborough East); Hon. Bob Rae, MP (Liberal, Toronto [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada
September 3, 2009
Hon. Lawrence Cannon
Minister of Foreign Affairs
House of Commons
Ottawa
Dear Lawrence Cannon:
Your Canada policy on Sri Lanka deeply concerns me as we are acting like a bunch of circus clowns pirouetting to the tune of Western Sri Lanka Hate Arias.  That’s a God [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada
September 1, 2009
 
The Editor (Letters)
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
 
Sir:
Just because Tamil reporter J.S. Tissainayagam who got  20 years hard labour for violating Sri Lanka’s strict Prevention of Terrorism Act was hailed by Barak Obama as an “emblematic example” of a persecuted journalist, he certainly is not above [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
August 31, 2009
Hon. Erik Solheim
Minister of Environment & Development Cooperation
Government of Norway
Oslo,
Norway
Dear Erik:
I just came across the news item in the Sri Lanka Daily Mirror Breaking News which said:
“The government has officially protested with Norway over the comments made regarding the Sri [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1. Canada
August 30, 2009
Chief Executive
Channel 4
P.O.Box 1058
Belfast, BT 1 9DU
Sir:
Your  Channel 4 broadcast of  the video clip of the shooting deaths of unarmed people, who you describe as Tamils as if their bare dark bodies which were not so Tamil-dark, had tattoos claiming that [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
August 25, 2009
Ambassador Robert O Blake ,
Assistant State Secretary of State, South & Central  Asia  
State Department  
Washington DC,  USA
Dear Robert Blake:
Re:  Robert Blake: a Diplomatic-Religious Deity
I am sure the come back by President Mahinda Rajapaksa through his spokesperson  on your statement claiming that the delay [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada
August 21, 2009
Jo Becker
Human Rights Watch
55 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 403
Toronto, Ontario M4P 1G8 Canada
Dear Jo:
The  recent news item in the Toronto Star which carried a caption of what you had said, “Canada missed opportunity to right Sri Lanka’s wrong”, did have that [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada
August 17, 2009
To Hon. Maria Minna, Liberal MP for Beaches-East York Hon. John McCallum, Liberal MP for Markham-Unionville John McKay, Liberal MP for Scarborough-Guildwood Andrew Kania, Liberal MP for Brampton West Derek Lee, Liberal MP for Scarborough-Rouge River Yasmin Ratansi, Liberal MP for [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada
August 12, 2009
 
The Editor (Letters)
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
 
Sir:
 
For the Canadians who had questioned why 280,000 Tamils who were rescued by the Sri Lankan Armed Force in May from being taken hostage as a human shield by the now defunct Tamil Tigers, being kept in welfare camps, [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario Canada
August 10, 2009
 
The Editor (Letters)
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
 
“Refugee law spurs bogus claims: PM – Harper blames system for decision to impose visas on Mexican nationals”, you reported.

 It has taken 20 years for the government to find this out which I had revealed to the Government in the [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
July 27, 2009
Honourable Stephen Timms,
MP Financial Secretary to the Treasury
House of Commons Westminster
London, UK
By e-mail
Dear Stephen Timms:
The world in 1955 was a pretty good place I thought.    A courageous one at that when the defiant black lady Rosa Parks refused to give [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario Canada
To Jack Layton, MP (NDP member for Toronto-Danforth) Leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) House of Commons, Ottawa
Dear Jack:
I appreciate your courtesy to send me your Statement on Sri Lanka’s Black July of 23 July 2009.  It was another amazing expression of your innate lack [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario Canada
July 22, 2009
The Editor (letters)
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
Sir:
“Tigers got millions from Canadian Tamils: report”, you said.  “Intelligence experts say the now defeated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam received millions a year from Canada’s Tamil Diaspora”, your news item continued.
This is not  ‘hot from the press’ news, as [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario Canada
July 21, 2009
Hon. Bob Rae, MP Liberal Party Foreign Affairs Critic House of Commons,. Ottawa
Dear Bob:
 Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror news item of July 18th which said, “Bob Rae calls for conditions on any IMF loan on Sri Lanka –Canadian opposition Liberal Party MP Bob Rae insists [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario Canada
July 17, 2009
The Editor (Letters)
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
 Sir:
 It does look like Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has just woken up to the reality that our Refugee system has been abused by the Mexican and Czech refugee seekers.
 The system was abused by scores of thousands of Tamils [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario Canada
July 9, 2009
To – Hon. Bob Rae (Liberal MP for Toronto Center); Jim Karygiannis (Liberal MP for Scarborough-Agincourt); Derek Lee (Liberal MP for Scarborough-Rouge River); Maria Minna (Liberal MP for Beaches-East York); Judy Sgro (Liberal MP for York West); John McKay (Liberal MP for Scarborough-Guildwood); John [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario Canada
July 7 2009
The Editor (Letters)
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
Sir:
Here’s a good tiding for the Tamils who demonstrated in the thousands in Ottawa  and Toronto last April and May and blocked the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto wanting the Canadian Government to intervene to bring their relatives who were liberated [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada
Ms. Navanetham Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ,Wilson 52 rue des Paquis CH-1201 Geneva Switzerland
Dear Ms. Pillay:
Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror of June 29, 2009 reported that:
“Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said the newly appointed United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario.Canada
June 27, 2009
Rt. Hon.Stephen Harper, PC., MP  Prime Minister of Canada House of Commons, Ottawa
Dear Prime Minister:
Re: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE aka Tamil Tigers): the  ‘Eelam Government in Exile’
While I expect this letter will receive a response from your Correspondence Unit, the contents of this [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario Canada
June 25, 2009
The Editor
THE HILL TIMES
Ottawa
Sir:
I am afraid Karl Nerenbeg didn’t get the story completely right when he said – “Working on peace can mean getting attacked by hardliners on both sides: Looking back, now, the peace process in Sri Lanka seems like a golden opportunity [...]