{"id":55134,"date":"2016-05-29T21:39:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T03:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=55134"},"modified":"2016-05-29T14:28:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T21:28:22","slug":"asoka-weerasinghe-responds-to-sunil-mahattaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/05\/29\/asoka-weerasinghe-responds-to-sunil-mahattaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Asoka Weerasinghe responds to Sunil Mahattaya"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe\u00a0Ottawa<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Kindly permit me to answer to Response 9 by Sunil Mahattaya recorded on May 26th<\/sup>, 2016 @ 7:05 AM, to my response to Canada\u2019s Prime Minister willing to assist Sri Lanka address serious violations of International law during the war\u201d. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. You said:\u201dstop picking on Canada\u2019s PM in a tirade that seems to be blown out of proportion\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Sunil, you amaze me. I don\u2019t see it that way at all.\u00a0 Here is Canada\u2019s top politician who has no clue what Canada did to Sri Lanka during that island\u2019s 27-long years of haemorrhaging due to the Tamil Tiger terrorist Eelam War.<\/p>\n

    Here\u2019s what they did. His Liberal Party let the Tamil Diaspora collect 2 million dollars each month for 13 years to stuff the Tamil Tiger war chest to buy sophisticated war weapons to kill my innocent unarmed Sinhalese people \u2013 infants plucked from Mother\u2019s breasts, pregnant mothers, novice Buddhist monks, farmers and fishers sleeping in their adobe huts after a hard day\u2019s work, and kids who went to bed hoping to run out with a ball to play with their buddies on a dew-studded morning.\u00a0 All snuffed out by these Tamil Tigers with guns and bullets bought out of Canadian dollars.\u00a0 This is sickening and serious business Sunil, and I don\u2019t think I had blown the issue out of proportion.<\/p>\n

    That bit of information, I hope Justine Trudeau packed into his memory archival bank to retrieve and digest it before he assumes such rubbish that we Canadians have a right to aid and abet serial killers to massacre other country citizens and then say to their Government, Hey! We can assist Sri Lanka to address serious violations of International law during the war notwithstanding that we were the ones who created the problem in the first place.\u201d<\/em> \u00a0If not for the war weapons bought with Canadians dollars, the Tamil Tigers wouldn\u2019t have truck-bombed, shot, claymore mined and killed innocent unarmed civilians in the thousands.\u00a0 Mind you, one-third of the annual operating funds of the Tamil Tigers came from Canada.\u00a0\u00a0 So what are you griping about, Sunil?<\/p>\n

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    1. A tirade\u201d<\/strong> you said. It indeed was. \u00a0It was, Lesson 101: Introduction to how Canada aided and abetted the Eelam War to separate that island sovereign nation into two in favour of the Tamils seeking their votes in the Greater Toronto Area.<\/em> <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \u00a0<\/strong>My knife cuts both ways and not one way, Sunil. My tirade\u201d<\/strong> also told him that the other two of the Trio of\u00a0 anti-Sri Lanka International culprits were India and Norway.\u00a0 It was an educational learning curve for Justin Trudeau how foreign political parties seek votes from adopted refugee minority groups in their countries, and Canada was a classic text book example of this, for Justin Trudeau.\u00a0 It was a cruel domestic policy of \u2018You scratch my back and I will scratch your back so give me your vote!\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 If political honesty is the way of thinking by Justin Trudeau, then he should have been willing to address Canada\u2019s involvement in the serious violations of international law during Sri Lanka\u2019s Eelam War when we decided to interfere in Sri Lanka\u2019s internal affairs like a lily-white goodie-two-shoes.\u00a0 The fact is that every one of the 34 million Canadians have a film of Sinhala blood rubbed on their palms on that day when Canada let the Tamils cut a cheque in a Bank in Vancouver in 1994 to buy explosives from a Ukraine Chemical Factory for their truck bomb which brought down the Central Bank Building in the Fort on 31 January 1996 killing 114 people and maiming for life another 1338. \u00a0And on 25th<\/sup> January 1998 used the same Ukraine explosives to bomb the entrance of the Dalada Maligawa killing 12 Buddhist devotees. That is how despicable we Canadians were.\u00a0 So Sunil don\u2019t admonish me for my pointing out these facts as they ate into my heart and soul and you got my goat with you challenging me on my response to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on his statement\u00a0 of wanting to help Sri Lanka.\u00a0 And that is how the cookie crumbles.<\/p>\n

      Sunil, since 24 July 1983, my Mission has been to see that No one, absolutely no Canadian, Prime Ministers and all \u00a0hurt my Motherland, Sri Lanka, unfairly and tarnish its good image…<\/strong>And that is the bottom line and they have heard my voice clearly as the ding-dong sound of a Buddhist village temple bell on a Poya Day, and there\u00a0 will be no apologies from me to anyone for my wanting to Stand on guard for thee Mother Lanka!\u201d and exposing the Truth on this Tamil Tiger terrorist Eelam War and the surreptitious support for the Tamil Tigers by the Canadian government and her parliamentarians from all three major parties..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. \u201dWhere were you when the likes of Paul Martin, Maria Minna and co openly supported the LTTE…\u201d <\/em><\/strong>you asked.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Well Sunil, I was right here in Ottawa and working during the day, a stone\u2019s throw away from Parliament\u2019s Center Block.\u00a0 I was in the thick of it, and I am no Johnny-Come-Lately-Sinhalese-Canadian<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

        You certainly would not have seen me running in my sneakers down Kent Street trying to get out of town on 9 June 1987, when the Tamil separatists threatened to bomb the 15 storey building because I was working for a Federal Government Department on the 14th<\/sup> floor.\u00a0 Not me. I don\u2019t run away from issues that easily.\u00a0 The Tamil separatists in Canada have found that one out too.<\/p>\n

        Did I react \u00a0when Paul Martin and Maria Minna and nine Liberal back benchers supported a Tamil Tiger fund raiser organized by FACT,\u00a0 by devouring a $60 -a- plate of ooos…ooos-hot kukul-muss curry, dhal curry, coconut sambol and rice\u201d, on 6 May 2000 in Toronto?\u00a0 Of course, I did react.<\/p>\n

        When the Canadian Alliance Public Safety Shadow Cabinet Minister, Stockwell Day was shouted down as a Racist\u201d by Paul Martin during Question Period for questioning him for patronizing a Tamil Tiger Fund Raiser, \u00a0Day\u2019s Executive Assistant called me asking me to back Day.\u00a0 And I did as we were on the same page on this Patronage of the Tamil Tigers by Justin Trudeau\u2019s Liberals. When my letter about it appeared in The Ottawa Citizen<\/em><\/strong>, I had an early morning call from Day\u2019s EA saying Asoka, your letter is in.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

        Sunil you asked me. \u2018Where were you when the likes of Paul Martin, Maria Minna….\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Now you know I was not hiding under a table nor was I hiding behind a door.\u00a0 Nor did I turn my back on Sri Lanka.\u00a0 I was in the thick of it.<\/p>\n

        Sunil, perhaps you may wish to read, the 28 July 2000\u2019s The Island<\/em><\/strong> (Sri Lanka) the reply by Asoka Weerasinghe to Wanted A Canadian Pro-Lanka lobby sans parochialism\u201d; The EMBASSY of August 29, 2006 \u2013 Grits have little right to preach to the Tories on Sri Lanka, and\u00a0 Lankaweb of November 12, 2006: FACT FINDING in Sri Lanka, my letter to Ambassador Allan Rock<\/em>,\u00a0 and my presentation to Parliament\u2019s Sub-Committee of the Departments of Justice and Public Safety on the Anti Terrorism Act (Bill C36).\u00a0 All these exposed Paul Martin and Maria Minna as Tamil Tiger supporters and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s Liberal Party\u2019s hypocrisy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

        Sunil, I have never been a Johnny-Come-Lately character when it comes to going after the Canadian parliamentarians who have the gall and temerity to tell Sri Lanka, We are Holier than Thou\u201d.\u00a0 That\u2019s a barrel of smelly Jardi.\u00a0 I won\u2019t believe them, nor will I fall for that calculated cunning.<\/p>\n

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        1. \u201d… which you sound like a pack of hounds seeking blood over a petty issue that seem to have little relevance to the greater cause of respecting the Head of State,\u201d<\/strong> you said.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          My goodness, Sunil, this is heavy stuff.\u00a0 There was nothing petty about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s statement for Sri Lanka.\u00a0 It \u00a0was more hypocrisy than anything else, not being honest not recognizing Canada\u2019s involvement in supporting Tamil Tiger terrorism \u00a0in Sri Lanka and their wanting them to establish their mono-ethnic, racist Tamil state \u00a0Eelam by dissecting Sri Lanka into two.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have to tell you how Canada was shivering in her boots when Quebec wanted to separate from the rest of Canada. \u00a0Surely what is good for the goose should be good for the gander.\u00a0 All of Canada did not want Quebec to separate.<\/p>\n

          And you are telling me that I sounded like a member of a pack of hounds seeking blood over a petty issue…\u201d<\/p>\n

          Sunil, if you think that Asoka Weerasinghe should have stood in a corner of his den sucking \u00a0on his thumb watching former and present Canadian\u00a0 MPs, the likes of Paul Martin, Maria Minna, Derek Lee, Jim Karygiannis, \u00a0John Baird, Deepak Obhrai, Judy Sgro, Albina Guaneiri, Rathika Sitsabaiesan, Paul Dewar, Patrick Brown, Paul Calandra, Stephen Harper, \u00a0and several others circling around my \u2018Mother Lanka\u2019 clawing for a pound of her flesh over lies of \u2018Tamil Genocide\u2019 and \u2018Human Rights violations\u2019, I will certainly be willing to let out a pack of hounds to save my \u2018Mother Lanka\u2019. \u00a0\u00a0And if they want me to lead the pack, you bet, I will be happy to do so. It is that simple.\u00a0 Sri Lanka doesn\u2019t need that hog-wash and you got that one wrong about Asoka Weerasinghe.<\/p>\n

          And if you are seeking immunity for the son of Canada\u2019s former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau for his empathy towards Sri Lanka, he certainly won\u2019t get it from me with his questionable and disingenuous statements on Sri Lanka. \u00a0He will just have to earn it from me by being honest about Sri Lanka\u2019s Eelam War and admit that Canada did wrong to Sri Lanka by supporting the separatist Tamils in Canada to break that island nation into two. I couldn\u2019t care two prairie straws or two dead capelin on the shores of Middle Cove in Newfoundland if his honesty will lose the Tamil votes for the Liberals in the Greater Toronto Area.\u00a0 It is the least of my concerns about Prime Minister Justine Trudeau and his Liberals. Let me tell you that my concern since 24 July 1983, has been to guard the good name of Sri Lanka and I will continue to do so any which way.<\/p>\n

          I hope you know by now where I am coming from on this Sri Lanka file and \u00a0that I am not a guy who would stand in the corner of a room in my home sucking on my thumb watching my \u2018Mother Lanka\u2019 being bashed, bludgeoned, spat at and squished under a foot of a\u00a0 separatist Tamil.\u00a0 I will jump in with both feet to guard her as I have done many times in Canada.\u00a0 It is that simple.<\/p>\n

          Sunil Mahattaya, thanks for your comments and I am glad that you asked those questions.<\/p>\n

          Sincerely<\/p>\n

          Asoka Weerasinghe<\/p>\n

          Ottawa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Asoka Weerasinghe\u00a0Ottawa Kindly permit me to answer to Response 9 by Sunil Mahattaya recorded on May 26th, 2016 @ 7:05 AM, to my response to Canada\u2019s Prime Minister willing to assist Sri Lanka address serious violations of International law during the war\u201d. \u00a0\u00a0 You said:\u201dstop picking on Canada\u2019s PM in a tirade that seems to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asoka-weerasinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}