{"id":47044,"date":"2015-08-15T16:38:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T23:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47044"},"modified":"2015-08-15T16:38:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T23:38:19","slug":"participation-at-the-32nd-black-july-remembrance-day-in-scarborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/15\/participation-at-the-32nd-black-july-remembrance-day-in-scarborough\/","title":{"rendered":"Participation at the 32nd Black July Remembrance Day in Scarborough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe\u00a0Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

15 August 2015<\/p>\n

Mr. Jack MacLaren, MPP<\/p>\n

Carleton-Mississippi Mills<\/p>\n

240 Michael Cowpland Drive, Suite 100,<\/p>\n

Kanata, ON<\/p>\n

K2M 1P6<\/p>\n

IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THIS LETTER ON THE TAMIL TIGERS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS IN CANADA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Jack:<\/p>\n

My Sri Lankan-Canadian friend Visita Leelaratna briefed me of your interest in Sri Lanka\u2019s ethnic Tamil and Sinhalese strife, and the reconciliation that should be done to bring the two communities\u00a0 in Ottawa together, which has been, in my strong opinion, polarized by all three major political parties,\u00a0 the Conservatives, Liberals and the NDP.\u00a0 Why?\u201d you may ask.\u00a0 I will come to that later.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s hideous and all wrapped in seeking the Tamil votes in the Greater Toronto Area by all three major parties.\u00a0 It is sickening.<\/p>\n

My Canadian politics revolves around how well Canada treats my Motherland, Sri Lanka.\u00a0\u00a0 I have been in Canada since 1968, and this is the first year in my life that I will not be voting for either of the three major parties, as I am disgusted the way Sri Lanka has been treated showing a bias towards the separatist Tamils in Canada, thus supporting their cause of founding their mythical mono-ethnic, racist, separate Tamil state, Eelam. Especially when we Canadians abhor the separatist Qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise, wanting to break up Canada and form their French state, Quebec.\u00a0 Not right!\u00a0 What is good for the goose surely should be good for the gander is it not?<\/p>\n

I had been a card carrying Conservative from the Reform days, through the days of the Canadian Alliance, and my mentor was Art Hanger, the former MP for Calgary Northeast from 1993-2008.\u00a0 I have made a conscious decision to never vote again for the Conservatives having witnessed the hissy-fits of Prime Minister Stephen Harper boycotting the Commonwealth Conference held in Colombo.\u00a0 Having witnessed our former Foreign Minister, John Baird, doing his Nepean Jig at the UN\u2019s Security Council meetings lambasting our sister Commonwealth country, Sri Lanka,\u00a0 for alleged human rights violations during\u00a0 the last five months of a\u00a0 ruthless 27 year long war and making a fool of himself.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Having witnessed Jason Kenney going to Sri Lanka, and preaching on Human Rights violations to the Sri Lankan Government, when in fact, he\u00a0 was trying to convince them that \u2018We are Holier<\/em> than Thou\u201d<\/em> and got snickered at by the Sri Lankan Government because on that very day, that very hour, that very minute he was preaching to the Sri Lankan Government\u00a0 impersonating as \u2018I am the son of the Canadian Preacher Man\u2019, the First Nation peoples headed by Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence were engaged in the Idle No<\/strong> More\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0 protest against the Canadian Government for violating their Human Rights, not respecting their Treaty Rights and on their economic and social inequality, just a stone throw away from the Parliament Hill Office of Jason\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0 What a fool!\u00a0 Having witnessed the embarrassing event when Deepak Obhrai representing Canada at the Commonwealth Conference in Sri Lanka, acted as a high-handed High School bully, when he laid a wreath at Elephant Pass where three Tamil Tiger battles took place, for the Tamils who died there during the battles, when he was requested by a Sri Lankan official not to do it.\u00a0\u00a0 He didn\u2019t recognize that the Eelam War was between two factions and the Sinhalese soldiers too died at battle. That was insensitive, that was crass, and that was Thuggish.\u00a0 He took a photographer with him to record that event and went straight to the Tamils in Toronto\u00a0 on his return to Canada, to report what he did for their cause.\u00a0 \u00a0Almost saying Hey! See what I did for you Tamils, now give the Conservatives your vote.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 That is sick!<\/p>\n

You said at the 32nd<\/sup> Black July Remembrance Day for Tamils<\/strong> in Scarborough<\/strong>, that Rioting civilian mobs systematically attacked Tamil people in Sri Lanka for a week in 1983 from July 24 to 29th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Tamil business and homes were burned and people were raped and murdered.\u00a0\u00a0 Tens of thousands of Tamils were left homeless.\u00a0 Thousands left Sri Lanka with nothing \u2013 to start new lives on other countries\u2026This was the start of the civil war which lasted 26 years.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>You obviously spoke having listened to the Tamil Truth <\/strong>of this incident, thus exaggerating a lot and leaving quite a lot of important elements of what went on.\u00a0\u00a0 The rape part of it, I am not sure as it is too easy to say, but difficult to prove.\u00a0 I am disappointed in you as that was a cheap shot below Sri Lanka\u2019s belt.<\/p>\n

Now that you have heard the TAMIL TRUTH<\/strong>, now listen to the SINHALESE-ASOKA WEERASINGHE\u2019S FACTS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Yes, there was rioting from July 24th<\/sup> to the 29th<\/sup> of 1983, and the Tamils got the brunt of it. But what you did not say was that almost every Sinhalese household in Colombo took in Tamil families to keep them out of harms way.\u00a0\u00a0 My family at Dematagoda, a suburb of Colombo, hid and looked after three Tamil families who were our neighbours for weeks.\u00a0 Will the Tamils tell you of this generosity of the Sinhalese in Colombo taking chances as they too would have been beaten to death by the angry Sinhalese mobs?\u00a0\u00a0 AND THAT IS A FACT.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. You know what Jack, this riot didn\u2019t erupt like a volcano suddenly. The billowing fires of discord were fanned by this minority Tamil community\u00a0 for donkey\u2019s years going back to the early 1940s, terrorizing and chasing the Sinhalese from the North who had been living\u00a0 there for generations.\u00a0 And the Tamils ethnically cleansed 27,000 Sinhalese between 1971 and 1981.\u00a0\u00a0 And the Tamils stoned and chased 400 Sinhalese lecturers and undergraduates from the Jaffna University campus on 13th<\/sup> August, 1977.\u00a0 Will the Tamils tell you that?\u00a0 Na! Of course not, when they are after your sympathy and seeking\u00a0 greener pastures, as 90 percent of the\u00a0 Tamil refugees were economic refugees<\/strong>, and 90% of these Tamil refugees wouldn\u2019t have had a snowball chance in hell to get immigration if they tried to immigrate according to the Canadian Immigration Point system.\u00a0\u00a0 AND THAT IS A FACT.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>And ask these refugees why the heck they bypassed their\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Motherland, Tamil Nadu, the southern state of India, where 65 million of their Tamil kith and kin lived, and landed on Canadian soil saying they are refugees having been persecuted and discriminated by the majority Sinhalese.\u00a0 I am a Sinhalese-Buddhist.\u00a0 And this is why I resent lies.\u00a0 And do you know what Jack, I am on a Mission to guard\u00a0the good name of Sri Lanka from being sullied unfairly, and it doesn\u2019t matter even if it is our Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and the former Prime Ministers Brian Mulroney and Jean Chretien, let alone the Canadian-Tamils, as I have told them so in my letters.<\/p>\n

      The litmus test of the honesty of the Convention Tamil refugees in Canada is that when they get their permanent residency and the Canadian passport, they buy the first plane ticket to jet their way to their country that they ran away from alleging persecution and discrimination by the majority Sinhalese to spend their holidays and visit their families and friends.\u00a0 So they took you and the other Tamil supporting parliamentarians for a ride along the garden path on a rickety cart held together with Band-Aids of Lies.\u00a0\u00a0 And I laugh at all of you, for being so gullible and so foolish.<\/p>\n

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      1. The Tamils may be painting themselves as lily-white and that they are paragons of virtue when they whine into your ears about Sri Lanka and hiding FACTS.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 And that the Sinhalese are the villains of this unfortunate riot.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what happened and you won\u2019t hear this from a Tamil voice.\u00a0\u00a0 Remember, they are lily-white and paragons of virtue and the innocent victims!\u00a0\u00a0 Right,\u00a0 Jack.\u00a0 Telling the FACTS<\/strong> doesn\u2019t fit in to their scheme of things to fool you all and become Canadian citizens.\u00a0 So now we have inherited and adopted a bunch of Tamil liars to become part of our pristine Canadian society.\u00a0\u00a0 If they had come here admitting that they are \u2018economic refugees\u2019<\/strong>, I have absolutely no problem, at all.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong. I rejoice\u00a0 And I will welcome them with open arms.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        On the night of July 23rd<\/sup>, 1983, the Tamil Tiger terrorist Sellakili who had sworn to avenge the death of his Tamil Tiger comrade had made a careful study of the movements of the Sri Lankan Army patrols in the North.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He deployed a platoon of about 25 Tamil Tiger terrorists in battle fatigues at Tinnaveli in the Jaffna peninsula on the Palali-Jaffna road, at a point where the road was dug up to install new telecommunication systems. In one such excavation\u00a0they placed four mines.\u00a0 The plunger stolen from the Kankasanthurai Cement Factory was placed on the balcony of a nearby house.\u00a0 The wiring was then connected.\u00a0 Machine gun nests were placed near the exploder and across the road.\u00a0 These machine guns (SMG) were once the property of the Sri Lankan Government\u2019s Chavakachcheri Police Station that the Tamil Tigers demolished in a lightening attack on 2nd<\/sup> July, 1982.<\/p>\n

        The main Tamil Tiger \u2018killer squad\u2019 and the \u2018cut off party\u2019 were located about 100 yards behind and on both sides of the road.\u00a0 Every body, including Sellakali were there armed with SMGs and repeater shot guns, T-56 Chinese assault rifles and a\u00a0 Made in India SLR.<\/p>\n

        At 11:38 on that evening the radio at Gurunagar crackled, Four Four Bravo for Four Four.\u00a0 We are now leaving Urumpirai junction.\u00a0 Absolutely nothing to report.\u00a0 The town is very quiet.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

        Within five minutes of leaving Urumpirai the Army convoy\u2019s jeep was slowing down near Tinnaveli because of the obstruction on the road due to the installation of telecommunication equipment.\u00a0 As it was passing the excavation on the road, the exploder laid by the Tamil Tigers set off the mines with a thunderous explosion followed by a hail of machine gun fire on the Jeep and a bigger barrage on the half-truck carrying the army personnel.\u00a0 With that attack 13 of the army personnel of that convoy were killed. That included a 2nd<\/sup>\/Lieutenant; a Sergeant; a Corporal; a L\/corporal; and nine Privates.\u00a0 And thus ended patrol Four Four Bravo<\/strong> on July 23rd<\/sup>, 1983, ambushed by the Tamil Tigers.<\/p>\n

        The word got around all over Sri Lanka about the ambush at Thinnaveli and that was the last straw of the non-aggressive, passive Sinhalese community.\u00a0 That pulled the trigger of the powder keg that they were sitting on of their built up and dormant anger, who had been taking horrendous insults and mental and physical abuse by the Tamil Tigers and other separatist Tamils up North and East through the years.<\/p>\n

        The thirteen caskets of the dead soldiers arrived at the General cemetery at Kanatte in Colombo for a military burial with honours which was the epicenter of the anger that turned into an angry riot against the Tamils in Colombo and there was another in Jaffna.<\/p>\n

        And that is the FACT of what exactly happened.<\/strong>\u00a0 And the Canadian-Tamils have no moral right to paint themselves as a bunch of lily-whites and\u00a0 victimized paragons of virtue.\u00a0 And that riot was a God send for the 300,000 Tamils from all over Sri Lanka who bought a plane ticket to Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver\u00a0to land on Canadian soil saying that they were running away from persecution and discrimination and that they had no travel documents as the legitimate passports that they used to get on the plane with the single word A-B-R-A-C-A-D-A-B-R-A got torn and disappeared in the toilets.\u00a0 I say it\u2019s a bunch of baloney hanging from a Deli stall in Ottawa\u2019s ByWard Market.<\/p>\n

        Jack, to be honest, this minority Tamils were a privileged minority back in Ceylon\/Sri Lanka, much more than our First Nation peoples.\u00a0 And those indigenous Canadians living in remote Reserves would move heaven and earth to exchange places with the Tamils in Sri Lanka.\u00a0 And that is A FACT.<\/strong><\/p>\n

        With all the ballyhoo of the 32nd<\/sup> Rememberance Day<\/em> of\u00a0 the Sri Lankan \u2018Black July\u2019\u00a0 in Scarborough, you must be having the impression that the capital Colombo is a fiery Hell Hole for the Tamils.\u00a0 Wrong! These Tamils are thriving sucking on the economic-blood of the majority Sinhalese (75%). Isn\u2019t it amazing that 40% of the population of the capital Colombo which was the epicenter of the riots 32 years ago is where the Tamils are living happily ever after, some inter-marrying with the once hated Sinhalese.\u00a0 In Wellawatte, a suburb of Colombo and its Rothwell Heights, 75% of its prime and most expensive real estate are owned by Tamils.\u00a0 The one mile long shopping-drag in the Pettah in Colombo, every three out of four shops are owned by either the Tamils or Muslims and patronized by the majority Sinhalese.\u00a0 There you find the best of Tamil pure gold jewellery stores, sari emporiums, pharmacies, hardware stores, eateries, spice grocery shops, you name it and you could find it along the Main Street in the Pettah in the heart of Colombo.\u00a0 Your Tamil constituents aren\u2019t telling you this, do they?\u00a0 Why should they when they have got you and politicians like Patrick Brown caught in their lying pincers.\u00a0 It is time that you take a step back and think about what I have related.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They are all<\/strong> FACTS<\/strong>, and no Tamil will be prepared to challenge me in a public debate.\u00a0 If they do, I will be happy to take them on anytime and you can be the Moderator.<\/p>\n

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        1. Now to why I have a strong opinion that it were the three major political parties \u2013 Conservative, Liberals and the NDP who polarized the Sinhalese and Tamil communities in Canada.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          I have already spoken of Stephen Harper, John Baird, Jason Kenney, and Deepak Obrahi\u2019s derisive acts thrashing Sri Lanka about alleged human rights violations against the Tamils and not a word of the Tamil Tigers human rights violations against the Sinhalese,\u00a0who took\u00a0away their most precious human right of right-to-life<\/em> with claymore-mines, suicide bombs, and Kalashnikov explosions,\u00a0 et cetera, killing them instantly and shredding their body parts, heads, hearts, limbs, bones and flesh\u00a0into smithereens.<\/p>\n

          The Liberals who under Jean Chretien and Paul Martin let the Tamils collect two million dollars a month for\u00a0 13 long years, to stuff the Tamil Tiger war-chest to buy sophisticated\u00a0 war killing weapons to kill the innocent Sinhalese.<\/p>\n

          How the Liberals supported Tamil terrorism in Sri Lanka when two cabinet Ministers, Paul Martin (Finance) and Maria Minna (CIDA) and several back benchers like Jim Karygiannis, patronized a $60-a plate fund raising dinner for the Tamil Tigers on 6 May 2000, organized by the Federation of Associations of Canadian Tamils (FACT) a front organization of the Tamil Tigers.\u00a0 How they allowed the Canadian-Tamil supporters of Eelam in 1994 cut a cheque\u00a0for $7.5 million from an account of a Tamil from a bank in Vancouver to buy 50 tons of\u00a0 TNT and 10 tons of RDX explosive materials from the Rubezone Ukraine Chemical factory, which were used in a truck-bomb to bring down the Central Bank Building in the financial district of Colombo on 31st<\/sup> January 1996 killing 114, and maiming for life another 1,338\u00a0 innocent people,\u00a0 and I could go on and on and on;<\/p>\n

          And the\u00a0NDP by habouring a Tamil Tiger terrorist supporter in their caucus, and Jack Layton calling for an Emegency Debate in parliament on 4 February 2009, which I called\u00a0the \u2018Canada\u2019s Tamil Tiger Blarney Gong Show.\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0They talked a lot of piffle, while Tamils were sardine packed in the Chamber Gallery.\u00a0\u00a0 The Sinhalese like myself were ignored to get the opposite opinion of the Eelam Issue. I can well understand this muggish Canadian politics, because the Sinhalese Sri Lankan-Canadians couldn\u2019t match the voting numbers as would the Canadian-Tamils who want to claim 33% of the Sri Lanka\u2019s territory bordered by 66% of the coast line for a population of 12.6% Tamils.\u00a0 And these are FACTS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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          1. Just one last FACT<\/strong> that you ought to note. Sri Lanka has been accused\u00a0 of \u2018genocide\u2019 of the Tamils.\u00a0 During the Special\u00a0 Emergency Parliamentary Debate on Sri Lanka called by Jack Layton on February 4, 2009, which I called the\u00a0 Canadian Tamil Tiger<\/em><\/strong> Blarney Gong Show<\/em><\/strong>, the Liberal Party\u2019s Terrible Five<\/strong> \u2013 Derek Lee, Robert Oliphant, Judy Sgro, Jim Karygiannis and Albina Guaneiri, charged Sri Lanka of Genocide.\u00a0 But they didn\u2019t prove with any evidence of such genocide.\u00a0\u00a0 You know Jack, talk is cheap, and sometimes they can be nauseating. This was one such incident.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            I wasn\u2019t sure how this Liberal\u2019s <\/em>Terrible Five<\/strong> would reconcile with the FACT<\/strong> that at the end of the Eelam War, by 19 May 2009, the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, the alleged \u2018Genocide\u2019 enforces saved 295,873 Tamils from the clutches of the Tamil Tiger terrorists who used them as a human shield for 30 months\u00a0 herding them like unwashed cattle under a hot tropical sun from the west coast to the east coast.<\/p>\n

            I cannot see how this \u2018Liberal\u2019s Terrible Five\u2019<\/strong> the accusers of Sri Lanka\u2019s Tamil Genocide, explain why the Sri Lankan Government showed their compassion by saving the 295,873 Tamils\u00a0 from the Tamil Tigers but also housed them in refugee camps and\u00a0 sustained them by feeding them daily with three hearty breakfasts, lunches and dinners for almost three years.\u00a0 The Sri Lankan Government prepared a million meals a day and the majority of the people who prepared the meals were from the majority Sinhalese community, that the Tamil refugees ran away from to land their feet on Canadian soil.\u00a0 Hmmmmm\u2026.. a little fishy, isn\u2019t it, Jack?\u00a0\u00a0 Tamil Genocide, my foot!<\/p>\n

            So you have now been exposed to Tamil lies by the Sinhalese Asoka Weerasinghe\u2019s FACTS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

            After 30 years of my involvement with this file which made me write 1,800 articles and letters to the Editor of newspapers across Canada, Canadian parliamentarians, and International Sri Lanka Watchers, I retired from this file on August 4, 2013.\u00a0 However, I will certainly make myself available to meet with you to discuss this subject.\u00a0 If you wish to, you may contact our mutual friend\u00a0 Visita to make such an arrangement.<\/p>\n

            I swear that my strength is honesty.\u00a0 And the Tamil separatist\u2019s couldn\u2019t muzzle me with their threats to blow my face off the earth if I didn\u2019t stop talking about them, nor did their threat to blow up the 15 storey Centennial Building at 200 Kent Street on June 24, 1987, because I was working on the 14th<\/sup> floor in Communications of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. It was a major security concern for the Ottawa Police.\u00a0 Nor did I fade away due to their threats through their Toronto lawyers that they would sue me for defamation.<\/p>\n

            Jack,\u00a0 I repeat, my strength is telling the TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH on this file.<\/p>\n

            With all good wish,<\/p>\n

            Sincerely,<\/p>\n

            Asoka Weerasinghe<\/p>\n

            613-747-2272<\/p>\n

            e-mail: <weerasin@magma.ca<\/a>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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