Ira de Silva London, Ontario, Canada

Mr. Patrick Brown M.P.
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario.
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Dear Sir:
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Reference your recent statement on Sri Lanka, it appears it is one more of your biased, uninformed statements, perhaps at the behest of your party, to help retain the Tamil Tiger voting block in the Greater Toronto Area. That you have linked your views with the NDP M.P. for Scarborough-Rouge River, Rathika Sitsabaiesan, who everybody knows is an ardent supporter of the Tamil Tigers as evidenced by the fact that she had the Tamil Tiger flag on her facebook page and was supported by Tamil Tiger supportersƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ in the last election, indicates that you too hope by these constant inaccurate rants against Sri Lanka to retain support for the Conservative Party in the Tamil Tiger support base of Toronto.
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I would like to remind you that it was successive Canadian Governments that supported Tamil terrorism in Sri Lanka by allowing funding by Canadian citizens from Canada to the Tamil terrorists so they could kill thousands of Sri Lankans, that Canadian politicians openly supported fund raising events and provided political support to the Tamil terrorists which means that Canada’s opinions are not respected by Sri Lankans because Canada was part and parcel of the Tamil Tiger terrorism that theyƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ suffered from. Having supported terrorism what gives you as a Canadian the right to now ask Sri Lankans to pay attention to what you want Sri Lanka to do after the war ended? Your statements may help your Tamil Tiger support base in Canada but are of no consequence to non-Tamil terrorist Sri Lankans either in Canada or Sri Lanka. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ 

Let us examineƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ one of your “requirements”ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ of the Sri Lankan Government, not that it matters, but to help you to understand that what your Tamil Tiger friends are providing you with is a load of rubbish particularly as the local population want the army to stay for their security and to help them re-settle.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ For example,ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ you “urge Sri Lanka to remove military from Tamil populated areas of the north and leave the administration to civilian officials. That is a “quotation” from the left-over Tamil Tiger supportersƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ in Canada who hope that they can once again, with your help of course, start terrorising Sri Lankans. Please note that the security forces of Sri Lanka were stationed in the north before and during the war so why should they not be there after the war? Where the military is stationed whether it is Canada or ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Sri Lanka is for each government to decide. After thirty years of extreme terrorism, the military is stationed all over the country, as it was before the war,ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ to protect civilians and the territorial integrity of Sri Lanka which is the responsibility of the government, a fact that you seem to be unaware of or believe that it is right for Canada but not for Sri Lanka which clearly indicates your double standards or wilful ignorance. Canada has it’s military stationed throughout Canada for the same reason, for security and to protect it’s territory. Would you agree if Sri Lanka asks the Canadian Government to remove the Canadian military fromƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ anywhere in Canada? If not, why are you expecting Sri Lanka to do so just because you want them to? Your bias,ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ignorance, arrogance and double standards are exposed.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ 

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Canada is a democratic country and projects an image to the world that it is for democracy and peaceƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ but your attitude and statements appear to promote the plans and views of the LTTE supporters in Canada who are hopeful that with support from people like you, that they can re-kindle Tamil ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ terrorism in Sri Lanka to achieve their goal of dividing Sri Lanka and establishing a Tamil only, fascist state.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ What makes matters worse is that ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ you are a member of the current Government of Canada. Instead of representing the Canadian values of democracy and peace you are promoting Tamil terrorist ideals of fascism andƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ extreme violence against the people of Sri Lanka for a few hundred Tamil votes.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ While you talk of human rights in Sri Lanka, you are violating the human rights of all Sri Lankans. Obviously you do not subscribe toƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ the Canadian values of democracy.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Yours truly,

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Ira de Silva

London, Ontario