Canadian Tamil Congress holds May Remembrance in Canadian Parliament

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May 14, 2010

Hon. Bob Rae (Liberal Party Foreign Affairs Critic); Jack Layton (Leader of NDP);  Patrick Brown (Conservative MP for  Barrie); Andrew Kania (Liberal MP for Brampton West);  Robert Oliphant (Liberal MP for Don Valley West); John McKay (Liberal MP for Scarborough-Guildwood);  Jean Dorion (Bloc MP for Longueuil-Pierre Boucher); Albina Guarnieri (Liberal MP for Mississauga East-Cooksville); Jim Karygiannis (Liberal MP for Scarborough-Agincourt); Paul Calandra (Conservative MP for Oak Ridges-Markham)

Canadian House of Commons, Ottawa

 Dear Bob, Jack, Patrick, Andrew, Robert, John, Jean, Albina, Jim and Paul:

Re: Canadian Tamil Congress holds May Remembrance inside Canadian Parliament on May 11, 2010.

I have had the privilege to read the write-up on ‘Canadian Tamil Congress holds May Remembrance inside Canadian Parliament on May 11th 2010’, with photographs of you all as attendees, the only ones that I recognized, at this event.   It was mentioned that, “In total, more than 30 Members of Parliament and Senators attended this memorial”.   “The Dignitaries joined in the Red Ribbon Campaign by wearing red ribbons to remember the bloodshed.”  I only hope that you made it certain that those ribbons weren’t soaked in Sinhalese and Muslim blood that the Tamil Tigers were able to shed in buckets full during the 27 year war. According to the UN the Tamil Tigers were recognized as the most ruthless terrorists in the world. 

If  the Tamil Rev. Joseph who stood by the altar displaying the words “ REMEMBERING Vanished Voices” in his memorial sermon did not remember the 25th anniversary of the ‘Anuradhapura Massacre of 14 May 1985’, when these cowardly Tamil Tigers shot and killed 146  unarmed innocent Buddhist  Sinhalese men, women and children pilgrims, all garbed in white who were sitting cross-legged at the base of the sacred Sri Maha Bodhi tree, with closed eyes in meditation, then this memorial service was a  Christian sham blessed by a Tamil Christian clergy who wore a white collar starched towards heaven.  This God-man obviously had difficulty to recognize that the 146 Vanished Voices of these Buddhist pilgrims were also God’s children as much as the Tamils who died during the last phase of the war that you all felt righteous and fit to stand in silence for a minute and turned this solemn occasion into a racist memorial service.  You all fell for this paid consultant’s orchestrated piffle hook, line and sinker as you all always fell for these Tamil shams in the past like a bunch of fools.

I thought that this memorial service was a shameless extension of the February 4, 2009, Emergency Debate on Sri Lanka which I have described earlier to you all as the Tamil Blarney Gong Show in the Parliament’s Chambers.

This was when all you parliamentarians lambasted the Sri Lankan government for whipping the butts of the Tamil Tigers and were about to annihilate them for good militarily and called for a ‘Ceasefire’ to save the life of their terrorist leader Prabhakaran, and give the Tamil Tigers another chance to regroup and arm themselves to fight another day. 

 These were the Tamil Tigers who were an unelected bunch of murderous thugs who were given military training by Indira Gandhi’s India in 1983-85, and we Canadians under the Liberal Government let the Tamil Diaspora stuff the Tamil Tiger war-chest for 13 long years with two million Canadian dollars a month for them to buy sophisticated weapons to fight the democratically elected Sri Lankan Government’s Armed Forces.  You all professed that this was an unwinnable war and wanted the Sri Lankan government to forfeit one-third of its territory bordered by 66% of the coastline for 12% of the Tamil population to create their mono-ethnic, racist, Tamil separate state, Eelam.    And mind you when in the mid-90s we damn well did everything possible under the sun not to let Quebec breakaway from the rest of Canada and create their own separate French state.  That is where we Canadian showed our blatant, sordid hypocrisy.  This is absolutely unpardonable.  All this so that for you all could claw and fight for the Tamil votes to get re-elected to parliament at the next federal election.  Aren’t you a bunch of ‘sickkos’! 

Remember, during that Gong Show, how the Liberal’s Derek Lee, Albina Guarneri, Jim Karygiannis, Robert Oliphant and Judy Sgro accused the Sri Lankan Government of Tamil “Genocide”.  That was a damning indictment by that insane ‘Terrible Five’ , when all what was going on was that the Sri Lankan Armed Forces were on a humanitarian assignment to save the 300,000 Tamils who were  pushed around and herded by the Tamil Tigers from the west to the east of the island for two and one-half years taking them as a human shield.   And none of you bleeding hearts shouted at these Tamil Tiger sons-of-bitches who were planting landmines like planting potatoes in the thousands in a PEI farm while they were retreating on their way to oblivion so that the Armed forces couldn’t get at them easily.  And where the hell were you goody-two-shoes bleeding-hearts?  We Canadians didn’t hear a pip-squeak from you lot. Not even from Bob Rae who looked stunned when stopped at the Katunayake Airport not allowing him to get into Sri Lanka, who recently called Sri Lanka a “failed state”.  Now I know why he was barred.   Not even by Patrick Brown who was on his high horse showing his importance and questioning the Sri Lankan Government why he wasn’t given a visa to enter Sri Lanka to go up north to the Tamil welfare camps, when Canada had already denied visas to five Sri Lankan Ministers to enter Canada.   And the Sri Lankan Government was right to ask him – “Patrick, who?   Who is this person who thinks he is that important that we should issue him a visa?” Not even by Jim Karygiannis who thought he was the saviour of the  GTA Tamils and their Tamil Tiger Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and had the audacity to stand up in the House on February 4, 2009, and in a gorilla-like animation flaying his arms said in arrogant bombast, “When is the government going to rise and say that if Sri Lanka does not change its ways, it is going to be kicked out of the Commonwealth?”   Not even by Jack Layton who during a Pongu Thamil celebration in front of 10,000 Tamils at Queens Park compared the serial killer Tamil Tiger leader Prabhakaran to South Africa’s Nelson Mandela. Shame on all you lot!

And you all attending this memorial service gave credence to the Tamil Tigers who killed two heads of states, Rajiv Gandhi of India and President Premadasa of Sri Lanka; Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar a Tamil (their Lawrence Cannon); Minister of Industries C.V. Gunaratne (their Tony Clements); State Minister of Defence Ranjan Wijeratna (their Peter MacKay); Leader of the Opposition  A. Amirthalingam, a Tamil (their Michael Ignatieff); three Mayors of Jaffna (their Mayors of Quebec City) and many more politicians, intellectuals and  thousands of innocent Sinhalese and Muslims with 382 suicide bombings.  The suicide bombers were mainly young  Tamil women.

I am surprised that you all did not demand a proviso from the Canadian Tamil Congress that unless they had invited their Sinhalese counterparts in Ottawa to mark the immense bloodshed of their innocent Sinhalese victims too at the hands of their Tamil Tigers in this unnecessary war that you all will not attend this memorial service.  That would have been the right thing to do.  That would have been the impartial thing to do.  That would have been an honourable thing to do to help a process of healing and reconciliation between these two Sinhalese and Tamil communities in Canada.  Why didn’t you?

Kubes Nava of the Canadian Tamil Congress asked you all during the Memorial Service, “Canada must help ensure that those who violated the gravest of international crimes are held accountable for their actions.”

That’s a bit of a strange request and yet smart nevertheless I thought, as the most  horrible human rights violators were the Tamil Tigers who recruited over 5,300 Tamil children, all aged under 14 to become killers and human bombs; those who plucked infants from Sinhalese mothers arms and bashed their heads on rocks and watched blood ooze like from a broken bottle of ketchup; those who crept into adobe huts during indigo nights and hacked with machetes, and popped bullets from Kalashnikovs into sleeping farmers, their wives, children and infants in the North and East of Sri Lanka, and the leaders of these Tamil Tigers are now dead having been killed in battle by the advancing armed forces. Thus none of these human rights violators could be hauled in front of  International War Crimes Court.  Isn’t CTC’s Kubes Nava up to a lot of mischief?.  That request from Kubes Nava would have never been an issue if only the Tamil Tiger leader  Prabhakaran and his senior commanders Soosai, Pottu Amman, Nadesan, Thamil Chelvam would have been alive today.  Who was he trying to kid, I wondered!

However, my request to you all is to nominate the Sri Lankan government for a prestigious human rights recognition for helping the civilized world by eradicating the most ruthless terrorists in the world who gave the terrorists around the world their know-how of human bombs with suicide body packs that they perfected, and who showed the world how to use women as suicide bombers.  For giving back the right-to-life to her citizens which was taken away from them by the Tamil Tigers.   For saving 288,000 Tamils from the clutches of the Tamil Tigers and within 12 months had sent 240,000 of them back to their original homes having renovated them and cleared the landmines.  They performed miracles. These are good enough reasons to nominate Sri Lanka for the Nobel Peace Prize, don’t you?

Well…I am one Sri Lankan-Canadian who is disappointed by all of you who attended this Tamil Blarney Theatre Act II, which happened again within the Parliamentary precinct. I hope that this event is not the prelude to a new phase of Canada getting involved in shedding Sinhalese and Muslim blood again at the hands of separatist Tamils.   There are plenty them around in Canada.

But let me give all of you a reason for concern.  At no account should any one of you support the Canadian Tamil Congress or any other Tamil pseudo-political LTTE front organization who want their separate Tamil state Eelam, shed another drop of Sinhalese or Muslim blood for this mythical cause.  We Canadians have enough Sinhalese and Muslim blood on our palms because of a 13 year support for the Tamil separatist cause by the Liberals, and I will not want to see another layer of blood caked on my palms because each and everyone of you want the Tamil votes and in return let them collect funds to fight another separatist war in Sri Lanka.  And that is the bottom line.  And stop acting like a bunch of Jack-in-the-boxes during Question Period and defend their Tamil separatist cause. 

David Poopalapillai and Kousina Luxchumykanthan of Canadian Tamil Congress may sweet talk you lot and provide you with election funds into moral submission to damn Sri Lanka.  Well, I challenge you parliamentarians to pit me against these two on this subject and sit down and enjoy the fireworks.  I will give you the assurance that while you all by now have been saturated by the ‘Tamil Truth’ as hog-washed by the Canadian Tamil Congress, you will certainly get a dose of ‘Tamil Facts’ from me and the fireworks better than what you would see in Ottawa’s night skies on July 1st Canada Day celebrations.

And let me leave you with a few of my happy thoughts for you all to ponder about the riches that I discovered on account of this despicable Eelam war and the Tamil Tiger serial killers.

Whatever said and done, it were my Sinhalese people who performed miracles by cooking a million meals a day to feed the 288,000 Tamils three meals a day who were rescued by my Sinhalese soldiers from the clutches of the ruthless Tamil Tigers, and refused to let my Tamil brothers and sisters die of starvation or from bullet wounds pumped by the Tamil Tigers who were shooting at them when they were running away to safety to the arms of my Sinhalese soldiers.  It were my Sinhalese soldiers who carried the feeble and old Tamil grandmothers, grandfathers, mothers and fathers like babies in their arms dodging the Tamil Tigers bullets, and brought them to safety.   I am prepared to challenge David Poopalapillai, Bob Rae and Jim Karygiannis if you all deny these facts.  That is the beauty about my Sinhalese people.

Today, 12 months after the war ended Sri Lanka has become one of the most peaceful countries in the world, after the Government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa rid the country of brutal terror unleashed by the Tamil Tigers for 27 long years.  Those lucky child soldiers who did not drop dead with bullets through their hearts and drying patches of blood like poppies stuck on their chests have been rehabilitated and reunited with their parents.  All communities move about freely and peacefully in the country, and the morning public transport commuters no longer put their palms together in prayer nor make the sign of the cross before they get on the buses wanting to arrive at their destination in one piece and not being blown to smithereens by claymore mines planted by the Tamil Tigers.   The Tamils in the North and East have after 20 years executed their democratic rights  thrice by placing their ballots in ballot boxes without fear of their fingers being chopped off for disobeying the orders  not to vote by the Tamil Tigers.  One Tamil who defied their orders had his fingers chopped off.  Massive development projects are being carried out in the North and the East of Sri Lanka. 

Hallelujah! Sri Lanka has resurrected and is blossoming.  And that is the reality check for you lot.  And there is nothing to stop Sri Lanka’s progress now.  Not even the Canadian parliamentarians and senators who attended this Memorial Service organized by the Canadian Tamil Congress which happened in the Canadian Parliament building on May 11, 2010.

Let me tell you that the 144 Canadian soldiers who have laid their lives in Afghanistan died after Tamil Tiger copy cat attacks by the Taliban.  Thus Tamil Tigers in any other form have no place in our civilized society, and let the Canadian Tamil Congress hear these words  from me loud and clearly.

Sincerely

Asoka Weerasinghe (a card carrying Conservatives)