: Tamil Memorial Monument in Markham’s Ward 7.
Permit me to address the members of the City of Markham’s General
Committee through this letter on the above subject.
Ladies and Gentlemen, so here we go again – the
Canadian
Tamil Blarney Lying Gong Show.
The Tamils who arrived in Canada after the1983 July riots in Sri
Lanka, saying that they are running away from discrimination and persecution
and begging to be given a home as Convention refugees, have concentrated their
homes in the Greater Toronto Area and have brilliantly got almost every
Mayor, MP, MPP hook-line-and-sinker into their ‘
Net of howling
Bishop Joseph spent his life advocating for peace and justice for Sri Lanka’s Tamils.
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On April 1, Catholic Bishop and human rights activist Reverend Rayappu Joseph passed away at the age of 80. Four days later, he was laid to rest at the St. Sebastian Cathedral in the Tamil-dominated northern region of Mannar in Sri Lanka, his funeral attended by a large number of people with many religious and political affiliations. Who was he and why is he highly revered among Tamils in Sri Lanka and among the diaspora?
Born on April 16, 1940 on Delft Island (Neduntheevu) in northern Sri Lanka, he served in the Diocese of Mannar from 1992-2016 and as the vice president of the Sri Lankan Catholic Bishop Conference.
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I was born in a house whose walls were carpet-bombed with framed portraits, many of which were of blood relatives I had never heard of, let alone seen. Those impossible not to recognise were not related to us at all: Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel….
My home was not godless but even the original triumvirate of Vishnu-Shiva (Brahma’s pictures are usually kept out) found themselves on a lower pedestal not because of any discrimination but probably driven by the practical reason that the lamps would be within the reach of the children to be lit at dawn and dusk, every day if possible or occasionally in those days of easy forgiveness.
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