{"id":149592,"date":"2025-05-16T16:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T23:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=149592"},"modified":"2025-05-16T16:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T23:41:59","slug":"when-myths-become-memorials-exposing-the-politics-behind-patrick-browns-genocide-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/05\/16\/when-myths-become-memorials-exposing-the-politics-behind-patrick-browns-genocide-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"When Myths Become Memorials: Exposing the Politics Behind Patrick Brown\u2019s Genocide Monument\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shenali D Waduge<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Go back to Colombo\u2026.you are not welcome in Brampton\u201d,<\/em> Mayor of Brampton chants racist slurs on anti-Genocide supporters. It is truly unbecoming for a Mayor to be making such wild statements. On what basis can he defend the creation of a Genocide Memorial \u2013 for whom is it? So far, even after 16 years since defeat of LTTE, no one has produced the names of 40,000 dead, some form of identification, skeletons of the dead or even police complaints of missing. Let it be pointed out that with no proof of the 40,000 killed, no one can point any finger of murder leave alone claim genocide\u201d. Additionally, no LTTE dead can be mourned as civilian\u201d. LTTE was a terrorist movement, a sovereign state has every right to deal with armed terrorists. Moreover, LTTE had a separate trained & armed civilian force. None of these dead can claim to be civilian\u201d either. The LTTE holds annual commemorations for its dead. It\u2019s hilarious to see foreign MPs actually attend these events shedding crocodile tears for \u2018dead terrorists\u201d fooling the rest of the world to think they are civilians\u201d. The irony & hypocrisy is that these memorials are all decorated with LTTE symbols, insignia, Eelam flags but the media communications want the world to think they are mourning civilians\u201d instead of dead LTTE terrorists. No wonder Brown wants to lift the ban on the LTTE too. Maybe next year he can pass a motion for a monument for Prabakaran too. Perhaps he can do monuments for all LTTE terrorist key leaders around entire Brampton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of the 2021 Canadian Census, approximately 1,555 residents of Brampton are Sinhalese while total Sinhalese living in Canada is said to be 18,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of the 2021 Canadian Census, approximately 237,890 Sri Lankan Tamils live in Canada.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is Patrick Brown?<\/p>\n\n\n\n