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WikiLeaks cables: ‘Rajapakse responsible for massacre of Tamils’
Written on 1 Dec, 2010 at 18:43 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
guardian.co.uk
(December 02, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) Tamil activists in Britain - where Mahinda Rajapaksa is currently visiting - are seeking an arrest warrant for alleged war crimes
Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda RajapaksaSri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa. Photograph: Keystone/Rex Features
American diplomats believed that the Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, bore responsibility...
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Flood of poor Mennonite refugees brought Public Safety minister Vic Toews’ parents to Canada
Written on 25 Oct, 2010 at 21:19 in Against Tamileelam, English | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
By: Bruce Cheadle
OTTAWA — There’s a global recession and Canada’s economy is not immune.
Shiploads of strange, foreign refugees — economic migrants and oppressed minorities — have been landing on our shores, fleeing civil war, economic up heaval and famine.
Vic Toews (right), with Treasury Board President Stockwell Day, says terrorists and human traffickers are behind the recent influx of Tamil refugee claimants
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More Tamils heading for Canada?
Written on 17 Oct, 2010 at 16:54 in Canada, English, miniNews | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
OTTAWA —The federal government is aware of a second group of Sri Lankans preparing to embark for Canada, QMI Agency has learned.
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Tamil Congress concerned by migrant arrests
Written on 12 Oct, 2010 at 14:52 in English, Searched News | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
VANCOUVER - The Canadian Tamil Congress says it's extremely concerned by reports 155 Sri Lankan migrants have been arrested in Thailand, and that Ottawa may have played a role in the crackdown....
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Canada aids in Thai arrest of Tamil migrants
Written on 11 Oct, 2010 at 20:52 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
by Colin Freeze
(October 12, Bangkok, Sri Lanka Guardian) Thai authorities have arrested more than 150 Tamil migrants in an immigration sweep that Canada had a hidden hand in, according to one security expert.
“You can say that Canada has pre-empted one of the vessels,” said Rohan Gunaratna, a Singapore-based security expert, asserting these migrants...
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Tamil refugees present dilemma for Canada
Written on 7 Sep, 2010 at 9:57 in English, Searched News | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
OTTAWA, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Immigration hearings resume in Canada this week for hundreds of Tamil refugees who arrived on a migrant ship from Thailand last month, officials say. Canada - Thailand - Refugee - Sri Lanka - Asia...
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Tamils want Ottawa to stop making unproven accusations
Written on 2 Sep, 2010 at 6:05 in English, Searched News | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Ottawa must stop making allegations that some illegal Tamil immigrants may have terrorist links and instead produce evidence, the Canadian Tamil Congress said Wednesday....
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SRI LANKA’S USE OF THE BOAT REFUGEE WEAPON TESTS WEST/OTTAWA’S RESOLVE ON SL … – GroundReport
Written on 28 Aug, 2010 at 3:55 in English, Searched News | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
SRI LANKA'S USE OF THE BOAT REFUGEE WEAPON TESTS WEST/OTTAWA'S RESOLVE ON SL ... GroundReport There's complete peace in Sri Lanka..300 000 people who were held as human shields by the LTTE..and rescued by the government (sic! ... |
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Tamil refugees already in Canada went home during ceasefire
Written on 23 Aug, 2010 at 19:27 in English, Searched News | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
OTTAWA There is nothing unusual or suspect about Tamil refugees in Canada who have gone back to Sri Lanka, says the Canadian Tamil Congress. After all, there was a four-year cease-fire in the civil war and they were "good years," according to CTC national spokesman David Poopalapillai....
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Two tales of Sri Lankans: ‘Loss of humanitarian aspect and Canada’s own historic benevolence towards the world’s less-fortunate’
Written on 21 Aug, 2010 at 14:43 in Against Tamileelam, English | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
from the Opinion columns of The Ottawa Citizen
by Mohan Samarasinghe
A ship arrived in B.C. and tempers flared around dinner tables in suburban Ottawa.
Spurred by radio talk show hosts, many Canadians shed their benevolent skins and began bellowing that the 492 Tamil men, women and children who arrived on the smuggler-operated ship MV Sun Sea should be sent packing, back to sea.
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