Canada’s brutal refugee policy according to Peter Showler
Posted on April 18th, 2011

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Canada

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April 18, 2011
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The Editor (Letters)
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
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Sir:
Peter Showler’s article “Detained Tamils case exposes Canada’s brutal refugee policy” also exposesƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  how Canada was naive when we screamed and yelled at the Sri Lankan GovernmentƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  during the first four weeks after the 300,000 Tamils were rescuedƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  on May 18, 2009, from the clutches of the Tamil Tigers who were being held as a human shield, and were placed in temporary welfare camps, asking the them to let these Tamil refugeesƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ go.
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The Sri Lankan Government was judicious to ignore our screams as they knew that there were over a million and a half ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ landmines that had been plantedƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  by the Tamil Tigers in theƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ land that was captured, the infra-structures destroyed so were theƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ thousands of ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ homesƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ of the refugees during the 27 year longƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ war.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  The questionƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ thatƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  the Sri Lankan Governmment asked us Canadians was “To let these Tamils go where?”
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Two yearsƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ since the war was over, 90 pecent ofƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  the terrain had been demined, the infrastructures restored and the housesƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  been renovatedƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  and new ones built and the Tamil people have beenƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ sent to their homes with seed money to start their homes and businesses.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ SchoolsƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  have been rebuilt for the children and most of the older ones have sat for University entrance exams wanting to become lawyers, engineersƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ and doctors. At the present there are just 16,000ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  refugees to be resettled which will be done no sooner the remaining demining is completed.
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Now I understand why Canada has taken over eight months to process most of the 492 Tamil refugees who arrived on Sun Sea last August.
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I am glad that the Sri Lankan Government did not scream at the Canadian government asking us to let her 492 Sri Lankans go from our detention camps as they realized that the task was notƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  magical nor easy.
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This is quite a laughable irony.
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Asoka Weerasinghe

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