Canadian Tamils support former Sri Lankan army chief-- who is he use the word Canadian Tamils ???? He should say CTC

Dear Sir:

I am responding you’re below article.

I am also Tamil Canadian, I don’t have any Leaders. ONLY my God / My mother/ my father are my Canadian Leaders. I do have to work full time and pay my fair tax to Canada. David Poopalapillai is only Canadian Tamil Congress national spokesman not Canadian Tamil Leader. Can you PLEASE correct and rewrite in your news paper.

We are Tamils, but Remember in Canada 75 % Tamils not support CTC Canadian Tamil Congress and we don’t have any membership with them.

SIR:

Next time please don’t use the world call “CANADIAN TAMIL LEADER’s CTC “

  They may be leaders for Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - LTTE, but Not for other innocent Tamils in Canada or around the world.

How Tamil diaspora can taking this case to the international bodies to demand tough measures against Colombo?

Canadian Tamils support former Sri Lankan army chief?

 Sure I don’t support him because he got his punishments from courts systems. If he don’t like what he got he can ask for an Express Pardons from His Excellency Hon. President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Thank You Sir.

 Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 13:55:17 +0000

Canadian Tamils support former Sri Lankan army chief

 Sat, Oct 9 11:48 AMToronto, Oct 9 (IANS) Throwing their support behind their former tormentor and army chief Sarath Fonseka, who was sentenced to 30 months in jail last week, the Sri Lankan Tamil community in Canada Thursday condemned the Rajapaksa government for its treatment of the former military boss.

'We had problems with Fonseka as a military general, but we have no differences with him as a politician. He has been treated unjustly and jailed by a kangaroo court at the direction of (President) Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family clique which is running the country,'' Canadian Tamil Congress national spokesman David Poopalapillai told IANS.

He said, 'The treatment of the former military chief shows how cruelly this dictator government has treated its opponents, including Tamils. We in the Tamil diaspora will fight for the release of not only of thousands of Tamils but also Fonseka.''

Poopalapillai said the Tamil diaspora was taking this case to the international bodies to demand tough measures against Colombo.

'Sri Lanka has sunk into a medieval monarchy under the Rajapaksa clan. Unless the southern people who voted this regime into power wake up, Sri Lanka is gone for ever,'' the Tamil Canadian leader said.

By jailing Fonseka, he added, the Sri Lankan government has insulted the four million people who voted for him in the presidential elections in January.

'This show that this regime has no regard for human rights or respect for democracy. Sri Lanka is in the grip of a dictatorship that has defied international opinion.''

Fonseka, who led the Sri Lankan forces in wiping out the Tamil Tigers in May 2009, fell out with President Rajapaksa soon after the conflict ended and contested the January presidential elections. But soon after his defeat in the elections, he was arrested and stripped of his rank and pension benefits last month by a military court which also convicted him to three years in jail. However, Rajapaksa has reduced the jail term to 30 months.

(Gurmukh Singh can be contacted at gurmukh.s@ians.in)