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Tamil Symposium -Toronto-May 2016

Tamil Symposium -Toronto-May 2016

Posted by admin On May 16, 2016 0 Comment

The two day Tamil Studies Symposium called Unspeakable Crimes, Invisible Atrocities – Tamil Studies Symposium. Toronto-May 2016 held in Toronto on May 6 and 7, 2016, and the list of presenters who are mostly pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists academics and pro-terrorists BBC correspondent Frances Harrison who is most likely paid to join the pro-Tamil LTTE terrorist event.

Seven years have elapsed since the termination of the military action and defeat of the Tamil Tiger terrorists, LTTE in May 2009, but the Tamil separatist dream of breaking up Sri Lanka with support from western countries continues, and these symposiums are part of the campaign to keep the project alive.

The main charge of the conference is that Sri Lanka committed a genocidal program to eliminate the Tamils. The last war was thrust on the Government by the LTTE terrorists who launched their so called final war of liberation towards the end of 2005, which has been confirmed by the Human Rights Watch report of March 2006 wherein they speak of the large scale extortion of members of the Tamil diaspora with individuals being forced to contribute sums ranging from $2,500.00 to $ 5,000.00, whilst those in business had to contribute between $25,000.00 and $100,000.00. These monies were used for procuring weapons and ammunition and explosives stored in floating warehouses (ships owned by the LTTE terrorists) parked on the high seas, sufficient to blow up the island ten times over.

It was the LTTE terrorists who forced the Tamil civilians who had been given basic military training, residing in the Vanni areas controlled by them, to follow their forces as they retreated from the west coast to the final battle ground in the north east of the island, to be exploited for their labour, conscripted to replace fallen cadre and finally to serve as a human shield. Although the Government of Sri Lanka unilaterally declared two 48 hour ceasefire periods to enable the civilians to cross over to safer terrain and even offered opportunities for the LTTE’s fighting cadres to surrender, they decided to do battle to the very last and even turned their guns on their own Tamil civilian population that sought to flee from their control.

Nearly 300,000 persons were rescued by the Sri Lankan forces including about 12,000 LTTE terrorists, who were fed, medically treated and temporarily housed in welfare camps till such time as the surrounding territory previously occupied by the LTTE terrorists were demined of over 1.5 million land/anti-personal mines, claymore mines and explosives laden booby traps which were cleared and the area made safe for resettlement. Over US $3 billion was spent to rapidly rebuild the infrastructure, new homes, schools, hospitals, roads, fisheries harbours, irrigation reservoirs and channels, etc., needed to support the IDPs who were being resettled within a space of three years of the conclusion of the military action against the armed terrorists of the LTTE. As a result of the extensive program of rebuilding the region, the northern province registered a growth of 22 percent as opposed to the GDP increase of 6.5-7.0 percent in the rest of the country.

Is this program of concerted development and resettlement a GENOCIDAL ACTION against the Tamil people?

It is similar to the charges directed against Sri Lanka by the UN Secretary General’s so called Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka led by one Darusman that concluded that over 40,000 civilians had been killed by the Sri Lankan forces in the latter five months from January to May 19, 2009 based on one sided information which they recommended be locked away for 20 years. Whereas the UN Resident Representative’s office in Colombo reported that a total of 7,721 persons had been killed between September 25, 2008 and May 13, 2009, without distinguishing between combatants and civilians, nor assigning blame for any of that number to the Sri Lankan Army or the LTTE, whilst the Tamilnet, a propaganda arm of the LTTE reported a total of 7,398 having been killed in the last five months which was a little less than the post-war census count carried out by the Government of Sri Lanka which reported a total of 7,432 deaths during the same five month period.

The mainstream political parties in Canada and other western countries too have given the space for the pro-LTTE groups to conduct their vile campaigns as they woo the votes of the Tamils to win a few ridings in the Greater Toronto area where the Tamil community could make up a significant proportion of the voters, even though they may have taken action to ban these groups in terms of the UNSC Resolution Number 1373 of September 2001.

A whole jamboree is organized with an intellectual facade in Toronto. All negatives about Sri Lanka and none on LTTE atrocities and the trauma it perpetrated on all communities including ethnic cleansing.

Following are the speakers at the pro-LTTE Tamil terrorist’s conference;