Tamil petitions in Canadian
parliamant
Asoka Weeerasinghe
A constituent of the Ottawa-Vanier Riding
December 12, 2007
Hon. John McCallum, PC., MP
Liberal MP for Markham-Unionville
&
Mr. Alan Tonks, MP
Liberal MP for York South-Weston
House of Commons
Ottawa
Gentlemen:
I had no squabble with you two parliamentarians for presenting two
petitions today in Parliament from your Tamil constituents charging
the Sri Lankan Government for human rights violations of Tamils, as
this is what is expected of you from your constituents even though it
grated me somewhat as those petitions painted only the Tamils as the
aggrieved party in this separatist war. But what I took umbrage was
for you two to request the Canadian government to get involved in the
peace process in Sri Lanka.
You two Liberals are obviously living a lie not to accept that Canada
had abdicated the Lester Pearsonian crown of being an International
Peace-Keeper the very moment you Liberals decided to look the other
way allowing your Tamil constituents to collect dollars to stuff their
Tamil Tiger terrorist’s war chest. And that were in the millions
of dollars each month. Twenty-four million dollars a year, in fact.
And then you Liberals had the audacity not to ban the Tamil Tigers as
a terrorist group while 31 other countries did, providing them with
the license to kill and maim innocent, unarmed Sinhalese and Muslim
civilians violating every clause of UN’s Human Rights Declaration.
And the icing on the cake was when your Cabinet Ministers Paul Martin
and Maria Minna together with other back benchers patronized a fund
raising dinner for the Tamil Tiger terrorists in May 2000, organized
by the Federation of Associations of Canadian Tamils (FACT, the front
organization in Canada for the Tamil Tiger terrorists.
John and Alan, how dare you two Liberals try to paint the Sri Lankan
government as a violator of Human Rights when the Tamils that you try
to whitewash as the aggrieved persons, whose kin, the Tamil Tigers abduct
and recruit children as young as aged 4-years to be child soldiers and
brain-wash them to become suicide bombers. These are the rascals who
pluck infants from the arms of their Sinhalese mothers and bash their
heads on rocks violating their right to life, enjoying the sounds of
the cracking skulls like the sounds of Christmas chestnuts being cracked
between metal tongs.
And more over John and Alan, Canada has no monopoly on human rights,
when we deny the rights to our own indigenous peoples. Aren’t you
two embarrassed for Canada when our very own Louise Arbour says we aren’t
committed to human rights as much as we like to portray ourselves as
a country that is squeaky clean and have the gall to lecture other countries
on human rights?
Louis Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
says that it is “Astonishing that Canada has refused to support
the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which passed
in the General Assembly two months ago by a vote of 143-4.” This
was in June 2006, and shockingly enough only Canada and Russia opposed
this declaration during the UN Human Rights Council vote.
I suppose you two missed seeing aboriginal women marching through the
Kahnawake reserve south of Montreal protesting against Ottawa’s
refusal to adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples. And Ellen Gabriel, President of Quebec Native Woman quite rightly
pointed out that, “Canada presents itself as a defender of human
rights but it’s not living up to their reputation. It’s kind
of hypocritical of Canada not to support this declaration.” How
true!
John and Alan, what was more embarrassing was, Louis Arbour, our own
Supreme Court justice, expressing that the refusal and luke warm support
for other related UN initiatives was indicative of a nation reluctant
to live up to its flagging international reputation as a leader in human
rights and peacekeeping.
Gentlemen, let’s stop our pretense that we Canadians are a bunch
of goody-two-shoes, and stop this masala-vadey boloney in presenting
dubious petitions from your Tamil constituents blaming that the Sri
Lankan Government is violating their human rights. Where does the Tamil
Tiger terrorist violation of human rights fit into this equation?
So let’s cut out your gall and temerity to point your wagging
fingers at a government that is trying to keep human rights violations
to a minimum in the mitigating circumstances of a vicious separatist
war fought with a sophisticated armoury and not with a primitive arsenal
of stones, catapults and bamboo sticks. This sophisticated armoury is
partly funded by your petitioners the Tamil-Canadians, which has killed
over 70,000 Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims, the majority at the hands
of the Tamil Tiger terrorists.
So let’s stop this nonsense of presenting dubious petitions of
lies in Parliaments from your Tamil constituents.
Asoka Weeerasinghe
A constituent of the Ottawa-Vanier Riding
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