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Derek Lee statement on Sri Lanka in Parliament

Asoka Weerasinghe (a card carrying Conservative from the Ottawa-Vanier Riding)

* *February 29, 2008

Mr. Derek Lee, MP
Liberal MP for Scarborough-Rouge River
House of Commons
Ottawa

Dear Derek Lee:

Today, I witnessed on CPAC-TV you making a statement in parliament with your concerns about Sri Lanka and its Tamil-Eelam separatist feud. I was non-plused. With your defense for the Tamil Tigers twice recently in parliament you have tipped the scale taking over Jim Karygiannis’ role as the ‘Mighty Defender’ of the Sun God Prabhakaran’s separatist Eelam cause in the Canadian parliament. You bet, Jim is going to sulk like a 5-year old standing in a corner of his parliamentary office with his thumb in his mouth for you having usurped his prominence in the Greater Toronto Area ‘Vanakkam’ community. I am disappointed.

I have sent you several letters criticizing your stance in favour of your Tamil constituents separatist cause. One was when you eulogized Anton Balasingham, the top Tamil Tiger who should have been brought to the International Criminal Court as a war criminal for his involvement in the massacre of the 700 policemen in the eastern province, who had surrendered on orders of President Premadasa, after the Tamil Tigers had stormed the police stations. This surrender came about because of the explicit promise by Balasingham during UNP-LTTE negotiations, that every one of them would be sent south out of harms way. And what did Balasingham do? He let every Sinhalese and Muslim policeman be blindfolded, hands tied at their backs, taken in buses to Thangavelayuthapuram’s jungle near Rufus Kulum (Tank) and allow the local high commander Cashier order to shoot them in relays on the 11th and 12^th June, 1990.

In view of such involvement by Anton Balasingham, what did Derek Lee, our Liberal parliamentarian, our human rights advocate do? Damn! He shamelessly eulogized Balasingham in public. Doesn’t say much for a supposed to be principled Liberal Party human rights advocate, does it now Derek?

And when you with eight other Liberal parliamentarians stood in vigil in Markham with 10,000 of your Tamil voters for the Tamil Tiger, S.P.Thamilchelvam, the leader of the political wing of the LTTE who you and the other MPs posthumously baptized as “A Dove of Peace’, I told you all that it was a crotch of cods-wallop.

That day it showed that your Gong Show act had the opportunistic fervour when you all vilified the Sri Lankan Government in your speeches and praised this cyanide necklaced, military fatigued Tamil Tiger assassin.
That was the evening you all chalked up every Tamil vote, ten thousand of them who stood with you at the Markham Fair Ground, shivering in the cold. All what was missing during that theatrical act were nine gun-powder burning haloes with shooting lead ball bearings from claymore mines like shooting stars over your heads.

And today, you stood in parliament and complained to all of Canada that the abrogation of the Ceasefire Accord on January 16, is seeing an escalation of violence and that Canada should get involved.

Derek, you must be joking! Canada will do nothing of that sort and any attempt by Canada should be rejected by the Sri Lankan Government forthwith. You know why Derek?

Canada doesn’t deserve that honour, that luxury after your Liberal government for 13 long years let the Tamil Diaspora collect two million Canadian dollars every month to stuff the Tamil Tiger war chest; for not banning the Tamil Tigers as a terrorist group when other western countries did; and let the Tamil Tiger sympathizers write a cheque for 7 ½ million dollars from a Vancouver Bank account to purchase 60 tonnes of high explosives – 10 tonnes of RDX and 50 tonnes of TNT, from the Rubezone chemical plant in Ukraine which were used to bring down the Central Bank Building in Colombo on January 31, 1996, killing 114 innocent civilians and maiming for good another 1,400. Have a peak at your two palms Derek, you might find your fair palms spotted with drying drops of Sinhala blood from that killing. All 31 million of us have Sinhala blood on our palms because of Liberal Party’s treacherous stupidity. And you had the gall and temerity to stand up in parliament and defend the Tamil Tiger cause. Shame on you Derek. Shame on you.

Your concern about the CFA being abrogated and that the violence has escalated shows that you know absolutely sweet nothing what went on during the ceasefire period monitored by Norway led Scandinavians between February 22, 2002 and January 16, 2008.

Here’s 20 items from a catalogue of multiple scores of violations by the Tamil Tigers. After studying these you have to be honest and ask yourself, did it justify my standing up in the Canadian parliament on February 29 expressing my concerns not even mentioning the Tamil Tigers once, who indeed are the culprits of the violence in Sri Lanka.

I hope all these will sink into you and please share it with your parliamentary colleagues like Maria Minna, Jim Karygiannis, Borys Wrzesnewsky, Albina Guaineri, Judy Sgro, John McKay, John Cannis, Mark Holland, Yasmin Ratansi and Luis Temelkovski, so that they could educate themselves too, having been Tamil Tiger supporters.

1. By July 14, 2006, the Scandinavian Peace monitors announced that
the Tamil Tigers had violated the Ceasefire Accord 7,308 times
compared to the government forces violating it just under 100
times. They said that they were giving up keeping track of the
violations as they were coming at them much quicker than they
could keep up with. The Ceasefire Agreement was abrogated on
January 16, 2008.
2. Col. Karuna the commander of the Eastern Province, who broke away
from the LTTE in 2004, admitted that they sneaked in 11 ship loads
of weapons strengthening their military potential to fight this
war during the time of the Ceasefire Accord.
3. Attacked police stations at Point Pedro and Valachchanai and the
Special Task Force base at Kanchanankudah just after commencement
of the CFA.
4. On May 20, 2006, the Tamil Tigers killed 17 workers and injured 2
others at Welikanda.
5. Murdered Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar with a
sniper bullet on August 12, 2005.
6. On June 15, 2006, the Tamil Tigers detonated a claymore mine in
Kebitigollawa killing 64 unarmed innocent civilians, including
children and Buddhist monks and injuring 39 others.
7. Attempted to assassinate the Tamil cabinet Minister Douglas
Devananda on July 7, 2004.
8. Attempted to assassinate Sri Lanka’s Army Commander Lt.General
Sarath Fonseka on April 25, 2006.
9. Attempted to assassinate Pakistan’s High Commissioner Bashir Wali
Mohamed on August 14, 2006.
10. On March 2003, the Tamil Tigers captured a Chinese fishing trawler
*/Fu-Yuan /*and exploded it killing 20 of its crew members.
11. On December 2006, the Tamil Tigers attacked and captured the
Jordanian vessel */MV Farah III/* and looted the ship which had a
cargo of rice.
12. On January 2007, the Cambodian owned */MV City of Liv/erpool*
delivering relief supplies to Jaffna was attacked off Point Pedro.
13. On May 16, 2007, the Tamil Tigers hijacked an Indian fishing
vessel in Maldivian waters for arms smuggling.
14. When the Tamil Tigers killed nine Sri Lankan Navy personnel on
January 12, 2006 at Chettukulum, the Scandinavian Monitoring
Mission questioned the actual existence of the Ceasefire
Agreement. This is the CFA you want back. Are you nuts, Derek?
15. In July 2006, the Tamil Tigers decided to deprive 30 thousand
Sinhalese civilians of drinking water by shutting the Mavil Aru
anicut which would have seen hundreds and thousands dying of water
starvation within weeks and months, as ‘Water is Life’. That is
when Eelam War IV started and these rascals were kicked out of the
eastern province.

You know what Derek! There is normalcy in the eastern province now and the government is planning to hold local elections in early March and on February 16^th we saw an historic moment in the 141 year old history of the Sri Lankan Police Force, when 125 young Tamil men and 50 young Tamil women marched onto the parade ground, escorted by the ceremonial band of the Kalutara Police Training School for their passing out parade. These new Tamil policemen and women were all from Batticaloa and Ampara districts from the eastern province that was liberated from the Tamil Tigers. All what I can tell you and your Liberal Party colleagues like Jim Karygiannis, Maria Minna, and Judy Sgro, hey! you all can eat your hearts out now.

16. According to UNICEF the Tamil Tigers abducted and recruited over
5,000 children for their Baby Brigade during the ceasefire period
and trained them to be suicide bombers and front line fighters who
are now getting mowed down as cannon fodder.
17. Sneaked in ship containers four dismantled Czech-built Zlin-143
propeller planes and converted them into night bombers which
bombed the Katunayake airbase.
18. Built an airstrip at Iranamadu violating the ceasefire agreement.
19. Forced the resignation of an elected Member of Parliament from the
Eastern Province, Kingsley Rajanayagam, on the grounds that he
supported the breakaway Karuna faction and subsequently
assassinated him on October 19, 2004 at Kalliyankadu in Batticaloa.
20. Assassinated Ketish Loganathan on August 12, 2006, who was the
Deputy Secretary-General of the Peace Secretariat.

That is just a taste of the menu of the violations of the Ceasefire Agreement by your ‘Doves of Peace’, and I could go on and on.

I only hope that with this expose your conscience will twitch a little bit and tomorrow morning when you look at yourself in the mirror your conscience will speak to you and tell you, *“Derek, don’t put me through this lying garbage, and it is just not worth it to defend the Tamil cause because you want to get re-elected with the Tamil votes. These Tamil Tigers that you are supporting indirectly are a bunch of assassins, a bunch of human rights violators who have blood-thirsty tribal instincts which no decent civilization will accept into their gardens. So cut it out Derek. It is time to tell your Tamil constituents, I am out of it as my conscience will not let me be a bloody hypocrite. I know it is going to cost me your vote, then my life is more than being a liar.” *And I will join your conscience to celebrate by saying “ Hallelujah! Derek, Thank you very much!” And I promise that I will keep off your back.

As for me, all what I could say to you is, “Derek, just give me a break, and try to live a life of a decent and an honest human being, and for God sake don’t paint my palms with more Sinhalese blood drawn out by the Tamil Tiger bullets and claymore mines, funded by the Canadian Tamil Diaspora.

Sincerely
Asoka Weerasinghe
(a card carrying Conservative
from the Ottawa-Vanier Riding)

cc. Stephane Dion (Liberal Party Leader), Michael Ignatieff (Liberal Party, Deputy Leader). Maria Minna., Jim Karygiannis, John McKay, John Cannis, Mark Holland, Yasmin Ratansi, Borys Wrzesnewsky, Lui Temelkovski, Judy Sgro, Dan McTeague, John McCallum, Alan Tonks, Albina Guarnieri

Stephen Harper (Conservative Party Leader), Maxime Bernier, Stockwell Day, Jason Kenney, Art Hanger, Pierre Poilievre, Helena Guergis

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