{"id":76798,"date":"2018-04-26T11:07:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T17:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=76798"},"modified":"2018-04-25T15:13:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T22:13:17","slug":"your-proposal-to-remove-the-tamil-tiger-terrorists-from-the-banned-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/04\/26\/your-proposal-to-remove-the-tamil-tiger-terrorists-from-the-banned-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Your proposal to Remove the Tamil Tiger Terrorists from the Banned List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mahinda Gunasekera<\/u><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

By E-mail<\/u><\/strong>
\n84 Tambrook Drive
\nAgincourt, ON
\nM1W 3L9
\nApril 24, 2018<\/p>\n

Mr. Jack MacLaren MPP, Carleton-Mississippi Mills,<\/p>\n

Queens Park<\/p>\n

Ontario<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Jack Maclaren, MPP,<\/p>\n

Re: Your proposal to Remove the Tamil Tiger Terrorists from the Banned List<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

I was taken aback to read of your proposal to lift the ban on the Tamil Tiger Terrorists who
\nwere so designated by the UN Security Council Resolution Number 1373 of September 2001.
\nEven before I got over that shock, I was sad to learn of the violence unleashed by an unstable
\nextremist living in our midst against innocent civilians in our great city of Toronto, killing 10 and
\ninjuring a further 15 persons enjoying a stroll on a sunny spring day. Toronto has been somewhat
\nspared of terrorist violence compared to other cities, towns and villages of Sri Lanka that have
\nhad to face such violence on a much larger scale for a period extending to over 34 years from
\naround 1975 to the year 2009.<\/p>\n

You may probably be aware that Sri Lanka’s Central Bank located in the financial district of the
\nCity of Colombo was attacked in January 1996 with a truck carrying 400 lbs. of explosives, which
\nwas part of a consignment of 60 tons purchased from the Ukraine with monies raised by Tamil
\nTiger supporters in Canada. This incident alone resulted in the killing of 114 and wounding of over
\n1300 civilians plus enormous losses to property in the heart of the city. The Tamil Tigers also
\nattacked the Petroleum Storage facilities in Kolonnawa, destroyed six commercial aircraft belonging
\nto Sri Lankan Airlines at the Katunayake international airport, they bombed and removed almost
\n150 kilometers of rail tracks linking the south of the country with the northern cities in the Jaffna
\npeninsula. Several other economic targets were attacked in addition to Black Tiger Suicide Bombers
\nblowing themselves up in public places such as the Central Bus Station, Main Rail Station in Colombo
\nFort, killing hundreds of innocent civilians heading to work or homeward bound during rush hour.<\/p>\n

Tamil Tiger killings went on daily with these terrorists planting bombs in buses, trains and shopping
\ncentres. They even engaged in killing non-Tamil residents of the north and eastern provinces of the
\nisland in their attempt to ethnically cleanse the region by evicting these people. They brutally massacred
\nlarge numbers of people participating in religious observances at Buddhist sacred sites in Anuradhapura
\nand Kandy, and Muslims in prayer in Eravur and Kathankudy in the east. They drove out all of the long
\nresident Sinhalese and Muslims living in the north from 1977 to 1990, and even today the so called
\nmoderate Tamils object to these people being resettled in their former places of residence just as over
\n400,000 Tamil IDPs have been resettled by the state.<\/p>\n

Today, having failed in their attempts to grab territory for their racist separate mono-ethnic state called
\n“Eelam” through armed force, they are seeking the support of westerners like you to promote the break
\nup of the unitary state of which they are equal citizens. The west which seeks regime change and installation
\nof puppets and destabilizing countries is seen to be playing a role to aid Tamil aspirations to establish a
\nsecond homeland in Sri Lanka in addition to their original homeland of Tamilnadu in South India where
\nnearly 80 million Tamils live. Sri Lanka has gone through almost 35 years of Tamil Tiger terrorism and do
\nnot want the Tamil Tigers to restart their separatist war with your support. Sri Lankans are trying their
\nutmost to build on the peace that emerged following the defeat of the Tamil Tiger terror movement and
\nimprove the lot of all of her constituent communities since the return of narmalcy to their lives.<\/p>\n

Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n

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

Mahinda Gunasekera By E-mail 84 Tambrook Drive Agincourt, ON M1W 3L9 April 24, 2018 Mr. Jack MacLaren MPP, Carleton-Mississippi Mills, Queens Park Ontario Dear Mr. Jack Maclaren, MPP, Re: Your proposal to Remove the Tamil Tiger Terrorists from the Banned List I was taken aback to read of your proposal to lift the ban on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76798","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=76798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}