Deepak Obhrai:

The Tamils still want their separate state, Eelam

(Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1)

March 15, 2010

Hon. Deepak Obhrai, MP 

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of  Foreign Affairs

Government of Canada  

House of Commons, Ottawa 

 Dear Deepak:

This is a continuation of my letter to you of March 13, 2010, on ‘Canada asks Sri Lanka to start talks with Tamil Groups’  when you had requested Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner Chitranganee Wagiswara – “Canada has asked Sri Lanka start talks and the reconciliation process with the Tamil groups, saying such a step is crucial for lasting peace in the country.”

And I asked you, “Did you let the High Commissioner know which group(s) that Canada wishes Sri Lanka should engage in talks with?”

I am not sure whether the Canadian government really knows what it is getting into when you try to dabble in Sri Lankan politics.  I really don’t think you all do.  In case your researchers missed this comment by the spokesperson for the Canadian Tamil Congress who said on Saturday in Toronto that “…The TNA (Tamil National Alliance) has not abandoned its four co-principles which include a separate homeland for Tamils”.

Now you got two Tamil groups, the Tamil National Alliance and the Canadian Tamil Congress that you may want to choose from  among others (will mention later) to ask the Sri Lankan Government to “start talks with”.

I hope you noted that the Canadian Tamil Congress has told explicitly that they want a “separate homeland for Tamils,” too.

This was the very reason  why – Sri Lanka was involved in a 27 year war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE aka Tamil Tigers);

This was the very reason why – by the end of the war which happened on May 18, 2009, the world saw  over 100,000 Sri Lankan citizens killed including the combatants;

This was the very reason why – the Tamil Tigers recruited over 5,300 child soldiers, boys and girls for combat and saw a whole generation wiped out at war as they fell along the frontline like poppies scythed, sent in as cannon fodder by the adult Tamil Tigers, and UNICEF could do sweet nothing about it other than counting the numbers that were recruited;

This was the very reason why – the Tamil Tigers assassinated two Heads of States, Rajiv Gandhi former Prime Minister of India  (21 May 1991) and President Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka (1 May 1993);

This was the very reason why -  the Tamil Tigers assassinated Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Laksman Kadirgamar (our Hon. Lawrence Cannon);  Ranjan Wijeratne, former Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister and State Minister of Defence (our Hon. Peter MacKay) ( 2 March 1991); assassinated former Opposition Leader and leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front A. Amirthalingam 13 July 1989 (our Hon. Michael Ignatieff); assassinated  Sri Lanka’s Minister of Industries C.V. Gunaratne (our Hon. Tony Clement); assassinated three Mayors of Jaffna Alfred Duraiappah, Sarojini Yogeswaran, P. Sivapalan (like our Mayors of Quebec City);

This was the very reason why – Canada during the Liberal administration of 13 years let the Canadian Tamil Diaspora collect two million dollars a month for 13 years to stuff the Tamil Tiger war chest to buy  sophisticated weapons;

This was the very reason why – the Canadian Tamil Tiger sympathizer front group  cut a 7 ½ million dollar cheque from a bank in Vancouver in 1994 to purchase 50 tonnes of TNT and 10 tonnes of RDX explosives from the Rubezhone Chemical Plant in the Ukraine;

This was the very reason why – these explosive materials were used in a truck bomb to bring down the Central Bank Building in Colombo on 31 January 1996 killing 114 and maiming 1,400 others for life;

This was the very reason why – the above explosive materials were used to bomb the Buddhist Temple of the Buddha’s Tooth in Kandy the most revered Buddhist precinct in Sri Lanka;

This was the very reason why – the Tamil Tigers ethnically cleansed the North of Sri Lanka by stoning and chasing 400 Sinhalese students and lecturers from the Jaffna University campus in August 1977; and chased 100,000 Muslims in October 1990 giving them just 24 hour to leave town making Idi Amin of Uganda look like an angel who had a heart to give Ugandan Indians three months to get out;

This was the very reason why – the human suicide body pack was invented by the Tamil Tigers which is now being used as an effective weapon by Taliban and other terrorists organizations around the world, and by April 2009, the Tamil Tigers had their 388th  human suicide bomb detonated killing hundreds;

This was the very reason why – we saw the Tamil Tigers having a naval wing, the Sea Tigers;

This was the very reason why – we saw 11 Tamil Tiger arms ships, all owned by  this terrorist outfit detected  scuttled or destroyed by the Sri Lankan and Indian navies : MV Sun Bird (Dec.1990), MV Tongnova (Nov.1991), MV Ahat (Jan.1993), MV Horizon (Feb.1996), MV Fratzescom (Nov.1997), MV Mariamma (Mar.1998), MV Showamaru (May 1999), Thai authorities discovered half-built mini submarine in Phuket, unarmed vessel off Kalmunai (Sept.2006), unarmed vessel off South of Dondra (Feb.2007), unarmed vessel off South East of Arugam Bay (Mar.2007) and the fishing trawler Sri Krishna (May 2007);

This was the very reason why – the world saw the first terrorist organization in the world, the Tamil Tigers have an air wing with four Czech ZLIN 143 planes which were converted into night bombers;

This was the very reason why –  the Tamil Tigers built seven air strips in the North of Sri Lanka for the use of their air wing of which two were long and wide enough with the intention of  landing large cargo planes at night filled with war weapons;

This was the very reason why – we saw the brutal riots on July 25 1983, when the 12 bodies of the soldiers who were assassinated in the North in an ambush by the Tamil Tigers were brought to Colombo for burial, the Sinhalese went berserk and went after the Tamils.  This was the culmination of a decade of killings, harassing and ethnic cleansing of the Sinhalese by the Tamil Tigers.  In that riot 345 Tamils were killed, Tamil businesses were destroyed and thousands were made homeless. What has not been mentioned in the media is that during the riots thousands of Sinhalese homes took in their Tamil friends and guarded them for days from their own angry Sinhalese rioters. My family took in and guarded three such Tamil families who were our neighbours. That was when the Tamils came out of the wood work from every nook and corner of Sri Lanka to get on planes and fanned out around the world bypassing their Homeland Tamil Nadu just 18 miles away over the Indian Ocean where 61 million of their Tamil brethren live, searching for greener pastures and 250,000 landed in Canada saying that they were scared to live in Sri Lanka where they were discriminated and persecuted.  But when each one of them got their Canadian passport, the scare to walk on Sri Lanka’s soil and breathe Sri Lanka’s air vanished and they all got on a plane and flew back to Sri Lanka for holidays and visit their relations singing their anthem “O! Canada, what a bunch of fools you are….”;

This was the vey reason why – a horrendous prison riot broke out on July 25, 1983 at the Welikade Prison in Colombo when angry Sinhalese inmates wielding clubs and iron rods broke into the wards housing the convicted Tamil terrorists and  killed some of them;

This was the very reason why – leaders of the competing Tamil terrorist organizations were assassinated by the Tamil Tigers to take supremacy for the cause of getting their mono-ethnic, racist Tamil state, Eelam – Uma Maheswaran (PLOTE, 16 July 1989); Sri Sabaratnam (TELO,  May 1986) and Kandaswamy. Pathmanabha (EPRLF, 19 June 1990); “Oberoi” Thevan (TELA, 14 August 1983);

This was the very reason why –  the Canadian Parliament sat on 4 February 2009 at 6:30 in the evening to have an ‘Emergency Debate on Sri Lanka’ ( I called it the Tamil Tiger Blarney Gong Show) when NDP’s Paul Dewar accused the Sri Lankan Government for using ‘cluster bombs’ which was an out right lie; when Liberal Jim Karygiannis asked, “My question to my learned friend is this. Is this not something similar that would require the R2P, responsibility to protect, and especially of the Tamil nation? In Sri Lanka, there are two diasporas, two nations: the Tamil and Sinhalese (Deepak, that’s a load of cods wallop); when Liberal Albina Guaneiri said, “The, the darkest moment, July 1983, over 3,000 Tamils were killed, many burned alive” (Deepak ,where the hell did she get these numbers? She has multiplied the deaths by 10. Wow Lady!  The Tamil propaganda is certainly working well in the Canadian parliament corridors); when Liberal John McKay said “This conflict cannot be won militarily even if the Government of Sri Lanka is under the illusion that it can win this war militarily” (How wrong he was.  The Tamil Tigers were wiped out completely militarily 3 months later on May 18, 2009);  when Liberal Maria Minna said, “…what we have today which is the horrible humanitarian crisis which has trapped 240,000 people in an area that they cannot get out of at the moment…” (Deepak, was she sleeping since July 2006 to suddenly wake up when she realized that the Tamil Tigers were going to be wiped out soon.  No tears flowed down her cheeks for  these 240,000 Tamils as they were herded like cattle from the west coast in Mannar to the east coast as a human shield by the Tamil Tigers while they were pushed back by the  Armed forces into oblivion).

This was the very reason why – we had several thousands of Tamils harassing the public in Ottawa and Toronto during rush hour demonstrating with a sea of Tamil Tiger red flags for days last April and May, and we did not have the guts to ask them to go back home and not take the rights and  freedoms of the other citizens away.  Deepak, my wife who normally gets home after work at 5:30 from down town Ottawa arrived around 7:00 in the evenings at our home in Gloucester during those days and I was livid.  Pocks on all of you bastards for taking away my quality time with my wife, I cursed.) .

Deepak, it does seem that our parliamentarians have a very short memory on our recent political history when we showed our resentment when an outsider tried to interfere in our internal affairs, and yet we try to interfere in Sri Lanka’s internal affairs.  Hypocrisy at its best, I think.

To nudge your memory here’s what happened.

On an official State visit to Canada in July 1967 to celebrate Canada’s 100 years of nationhood, the French President General Charles de Gaulle ignited a storm of controversy in the Anglophone world when he stood before a crowd of 100,000 Quebecois in Montreal and declared Vive le Quebec libre!  While this implied support for Quebec’s independence was a monumental diplomatic blunder and interference into another country’s internal affairs, it was one that inflamed the passion of some nationalist Quebecois and inspired members of the secession movement.

Following de Gaulle’s remark, the Prime Minister of Canada, Lester B. Pearson cancelled plans for de Gaulle to visit the capital Ottawa and the seat of government, and requested the French President to leave Canada.  Critics of this incident also drew the parallel for interference between Quebec independence and past Franco-German consternation of ownership of Alsace-Lorraine.  Deepak, wouldn’t you say that our interference in Sri Lanka’s internal affairs and telling what to do is a bit of arrogance and an attitude to say that “We are Holier than Thou”?

And here is another for you to recall.   While Canada seems to be overly concerned about the Sri Lankan government wiping out the most ruthless terrorist outfit in the world, the Tamil Tigers with no help from NATO, with no help from anyone to be exact, while we are still helping NATO to try and wipe out the Talibans in Afghanistan, our parliamentarians keep forgetting how Canada evoked the WAR MEASURES ACT with draconian powers during the October  Crisis of 1970 to nip in the bud the FLQ separatist movement.

Remember, Canada only had to deal with a separatist armoury of a grand total of 33 firearms, and 21 other offensive weapons including 3 smoke grenades, 9 hand knives and 1 sabre and we had to deploy the Canadian army to walk the streets of Montreal and Ottawa with assault rifles  on the draw ready to shoot to get these few Quebec separatists who were dropping smoke bombs in mail boxes and killed one,  Pierre Laporte, the Quebec’s Labour Minister.  Remember?

But then we saw how the Canadian Parliamentary Gong Show on February 4, 2009, was damning the Sri Lankan Government for going after the Tamil Tigers who had an armoury of millions of land mines and bullets, thousands of claymore mines, AK47s , RPGs,  SAMs, light and heavy machine guns, 15-18mm guns and suicide bomber body packs, etc.

Aren’t we Canadians a bunch of hypocrites, especially the parliamentarians, the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP and the Bloc who only see the 100,000 Tamil votes dangling in front of their eyes?

You did ask Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner Chitranganee Wagiswara to tell her government that it should engage in talks with the Tamil groups which you said was a step towards lasting peace in the country.

Perhaps you may want to let her know which Tamil group(s) Canada would like Sri Lanka to engage in talks, as it may be difficult for the Sri Lankan government to pick one as they all want their separate mono-ethnic, racist Tamil state Eelam carved out of one-third of its territory bordered by 66 per cent of the coastline for the present 3.9% of its population among the 22 million peoples of all ethnic groups.

Let me present to you Deepak the ‘dogs breakfast’, and you may want to use the child’s game  – ‘Eenie…Meenie…Mynee…Mo…catch the Tiger by its toe, if it bites you let him go…Eenie….Meenie….Mynee….Mo”, to eliminate one group by one group.  Pick the one  that Smart Alec Canada would like Sri Lanka to talk with from this crowd of Tamil separatist groups – Tamil National Alliance (TNA), Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC), Global Tamil Forum (GTF), World Tamil Movement (WTM), British Tamil Forum (BTF), Australian Tamil Congress (ATC), House of Eelam Tamils of France, European Tamil Union, Norwegian Council of Eelam Tamils (NCET), Swedish Tamil Forum (STF), Danish Federation of Tamil Associations (DFTA), Tamil Relief Fund (TRF-Malaysia), New Zealand Tamil Society, Wellington Tamil Society, and United States  Tamil Political Action Council. I may have missed a dozen or more.

Perhaps, you may want to play the game of Eenie…Meenie…Mynee…Mo with the Liberals like Maria Minna, Judy Sgro, Albina Gurnieiri, Jim Karygiannis, Derek Lee, John McKay, Bob Rae, John Cannis and Robert Oliphant who have a direct interest in providing their Tamil constituents a separate patch of land in Sri Lanka to form their separate state Eelam.

Once you make the choice on behalf of Canada let me know as I am curious.

Good luck, Deepak.

Sincerely,

Asoka Weerasinghe

Conservative Party Member C11255047/Sustaining Donor 11255047

PS: Here is a NEW FLASH which you may wish to share with your Cabinet colleagues –  Hon. Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship & Immigration; Hon. Vic Toews, Minister of National Security & Hon. John Baird, Minister of Transport.

THE LTTE ARE PLANNING TO SEND ANOTHER SHIP WITH INTENDED TAMIL REFUGEES AND WILL LAND AT A COASTAL ENTRY POINT SOMEWHERE. I BELIEVE THAT IT IS IN THE WORKS. AW