Asoka Weerasinghe  Gloucester . Ontario . Canada

January 4, 2023

Letters Editor
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN

You said that ‘Canada linked to alleged war horrors… accused of killing innocents in Syria and Iraq.

Let’s not white-wash Canada’s indirect involvement in the killings of innocent Sinhalese people in the border villages in North and East of Sri Lanka in the thousands during the Tamil Eelam War,  by the most ruthless terrorists in the world, designated as such by the UN of the Tamil Tigers.

It was Canada that let the Canadian Tamil Tigers collect two million dollars a month for 13 Liberal Governing years beginning with Jean Chretien days.  It was these monies that were used to purchase sophisticated war weapons to kill the innocent Sinhalese people in droves.

Let’s not forget that it was a cheque that was cut for nearly $7 million dollars from a Bank in Vancouver under a  Tamil name to purchase 50 tonnes of TNT and 10 tonnes of RDX from the Rubezone Chemical Factory in Ukraine in 1994, that was used in the truck bomb by the Tamil Tigers that brought down the Central Bank building in Colombo’s Finance District  killing 86 innocent civilians and maiming for life another 1338 on 31 January 1996,

Let’s add Sri Lanka to Syria and Iraq where Canada has been involved in war killings directly and indirectly in international war theatres,  Canada is not lily-white by any means.

Asoka Weerasinghe

Gloucester. On