Unprofessional Journalism by Canadian

The Ottawa Citizen, a Canadian newspaper has reported that Tamils in Northern Province were being subjected to ethnic cleansing during the war time with the LTTE Tamil terrorists. These are the sorts of misleading and biased unprofessional journalism practiced by many European, and North American journalists who widely suspect that being handsomely paid by the pro-LTTE Tamil diaspora. 

Contrary to the ethnics’ cleansing of Tamils from Northern Sri Lanka, Tamil terrorists   chased away and massacres over 50,000 strong Sinhala community from Northern Province of Sri Lanka. In October 1990, 100,000 Muslims were given 24 hours to leave north of Sri Lanka leaving all their valuables at the nearest Mosque.

Following letters has been written to the editor of the Ottawa Citizen to register the protest on the misguiding news item.

2066 Kings Grove,

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28 August 2014

The Editor (Letters)

THE OTTAWA CITIZEN

Dear Editor:

How wrong Terry Glavin  was when he said, “Let’s say, too, that the reason Prime Minister Stephen Harper boycotted the Commonwealth conference in Sri Lanka last November was mostly because 300,000 Tamil-Canadians have had to watch helplessly as their families back home were being subjected to ethnic cleansing”, in his essay ‘Look to our  diasporas for foreign policy in put ‘.

This is utter nonsense and how wrong he is.  When 27,000 Sinhalese who had lived in the north of Sri Lanka for generations were kicked out having been terrorized by the Tamils between 1971 and 1981,  and that was ethnic cleansing of the Sinhalese by Tamils.

When in August 1977, 400 Sinhalese undergraduates and lecturers at the Jaffna University were stoned and chased out of the campus by the Tamils  and were bused south lying on the floors dodging of the hail of rocks and stones, and that was ethnic cleansing of the Sinhalese by the Tamils.

In October 1990, 100,000 Muslims were given 24 hours to get out of the north leaving all their valuables and gold at the nearest Mosque, making Idi Amin look an angel who gave three months for the Ugandan-Indians to leave Uganda.  That was ethnic cleansing of the Muslims by the Tamils.

Liberating 295,873 Tamils by 19 May 2009, by the Sinhalese army soldiers who were herded like unwashed cattle as a human shield for 30 months from the west coast to the east coast by the Tamil Tigers was not ethnic cleansing of  Tamils by the Sinhalese, but liberating the Tamils by the Sinhalese from  their Tamil Tiger terrorists.  These are all recorded historical facts that no Tamil can dispute

Where did Terry Glavin get all his information about the Tamils being ethnically cleansed in Sri Lanka?   And this is where Stephen Harper got is  cues wrong which made his foreign policy on Sri Lanka look so silly and juvenile and isolating Canada from the rest of the 51 Commonwealth sister countries at the November 2013 Summit in Colombo.  This was all about the Tamil votes in nine ridings in the Greater Toronto Area at the 2015 federal elections and nothing else.

Asoka Weerasinghe

613-747-2272

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