Posted on July 8th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The
Tamil Separatist Movement appears to have started its Genocide charge in 2014. 28 Members of the
Northern Provincial Council and 5 members of the Eastern Provincial Council
sent a joint letter on 17
th August 2014, to United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, Navi Pillay.
The letter said
, The
Tamil people strongly believe that they have been, and continue to be subject
to Genocide by Sri Lanka. The Tamils were massacred in groups, their temples
and churches were bombed, and their iconic Jaffna Public library was burnt down
in 1981 with its collection of largest and oldest priceless irreplaceable Tamil
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Tamil-Canadian groups lobbied for the bill’s passage, but other Sri Lankans lobbied against it, including Anura Ferdinand of the Sri Lankan Canadian Action Coalition. Ferdinand said that in 2019 his community met 71 MPPs who, he said, had no idea there is another side to the story here.”
Ferdinand said the bill makes no mention of Sinhalese or other ethnic groups harmed in Sri Lanka during the war, which has not been called a genocide by the United Nations or Canada.
Ramila Senanayake, from Maple, said she sent Premier Doug Ford statements from Sinhalese-Canadian schoolchildren in Greater Toronto already unfairly targeted with this false narrative” of genocide.
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Canada’s myopic view on ‘genocide’ Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
Genocide is the intentional destruction of a particular group through killing, serious physical or mental harm, preventing births and/or forcibly transferring children to another group and this term has been applied to the experiences of Indigenous peoples in Canada, particularly in the final reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry.
Using the liberal use of the term ‘genocide’ to hoodwink the gullible Canadian public, Sri Lankan asylum seeker-turned Scarborough-Rouge Park Member of Parliament Vijay Thanigasalam influenced the Ontario Legislative Assembly to adopt a resolution that Sri Lanka subjected the Tamil community to genocide during the armed conflict. The Legislative Assembly voted in favour of Bill 104 (aka the Tamil Genocide Education Week Act), moved by Thanigasalam, at the Third Reading in the Legislature