{"id":73840,"date":"2018-01-17T10:17:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73840"},"modified":"2018-01-17T10:17:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:17:51","slug":"canadian-tamil-congresss-ctc-pongal-festival-rupavahini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/01\/17\/canadian-tamil-congresss-ctc-pongal-festival-rupavahini\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Tamil Congress’s (CTC) Pongal festival & Rupavahini…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mahinda Gunasekera Toronto, Canada<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

His Excellency Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka, Honourable Cabinet Ministers, Deputy Ministers\u00a0\u00a0and Heads of Departments,<\/p>\n

I received the following Facebook Communication sent out by the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) from a friend in Toronto regarding their Thaipongal event scheduled to be held on the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0of January 2018. The CTC has been a leading spokesperson for the proscribed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). It was formed soon after the US State Department listed the Federation of Associations of Canadian Tamils (FACT) as a front organization for the LTTE with a new name and new faces to carry on the propaganda and support services for the LTTE.<\/p>\n

What I found to be intriguing is the fact that the Tamil Broadcasting Service of Sri Lanka’s state owned Rupavahini is said to be travelling to Toronto to cover this event. The CTC has stated that they had not invited Rupavahini, but that Rupavahini requested that they be allowed to cover the event, to which they agreed.<\/p>\n

I am aware that CTC officials recently travelled to Sri Lanka to meet with government ministers and officials, and most likely sought coverage by Rupavahini of their\u00a0mono-ethnic Thaipongal celebrations<\/strong>\u00a0where they may well have a program to remember their heroes in the LTTE who engaged in suicide bombings, ethnic cleansing, assassinations and numerous acts of violence and murder.\u00a0\u00a0Father Emmanuel who resides in Germany, who previously compared the LTTE Supremo, Velupillai Prabhakaran to Jesus Christ was also in Sri Lanka at the same time as a VIP, and he too may have nudged the Sri Lankan authorities to send their Rupavahini team to Toronto.<\/p>\n

At a time when ordinary Sri Lankans are struggling to survive with escalating living costs relating to higher sales taxes and income taxes, the government of Sri Lanka which has hitherto never covered events organized by the country’s diplomatic missions to improve inter-community relations aimed at building reconciliation have not been covered live by the state media.\u00a0\u00a0I suppose the Minister in charge of the Media has good reasons for incurring a large expense in scarce foreign funds for this tamasha in terms of the secret talks he has previously had in Singapore, etc., with the Tamil diaspora represented by the LTTE front organizations operating in western countries.<\/p>\n

Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n

Mahinda Gunasekera<\/p>\n

Toronto, Canada<\/p>\n

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FOUND A VERY\u00a0<\/strong>INTERESTING<\/strong>\u00a0NEWS FROM FACE BOOK.<\/strong><\/p>\n

SL Media ministry\u00a0Rupavakini TV\u00a0& the progress of\u00a0reconciliation<\/b>\u00a0efforts by the\u00a0Sri Lankan<\/b>\u00a0government ???<\/p>\n

According<\/strong>\u00a0to CTC News : Rupavahini’s (Sri Lankan TV) Tamil service officials contacted CTC directly ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

WOW – I CANT\u00a0<\/strong>BELIEVE<\/strong>\u00a0THIS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>or<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rev<\/strong>. FATHER\u00a0<\/strong>Emmanuel<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>contacted \/ SRI\u00a0<\/strong>Lanka<\/strong>\u00a0MEDIA\u00a0<\/strong>MINSTER<\/strong>\u00a0during his visit to\u00a0 CMB:-)<\/strong>\u00a0 ??? He visit CMB every day :-)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source : F\/B social\u00a0media\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

15 hrs<\/a>\u00a0\u00b7<\/p>\n

Canadian Tamil Congress’s (CTC) Pongal festival & Rupavakini…<\/p>\n