{"id":29,"date":"2007-02-19T10:17:04","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T15:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1letter.adadaa.com\/2007\/02\/19\/sri-lanka-tsunami-aid-miliraty-hardware-logistics-tamil-canada\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T10:17:04","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T15:17:04","slug":"sri-lanka-tsunami-aid-miliraty-hardware-logistics-tamil-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1letter\/2007\/02\/19\/sri-lanka-tsunami-aid-miliraty-hardware-logistics-tamil-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"When is Canada going to act on Sri Lanka?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:  min.dfaitmaeci@international.gc.ca; MacKay.P@parl.gc.ca<\/p>\n<p>Cc:  Layton.J@parl.gc.ca; Vellacott.M@parl.gc.ca; PoiliP@parl.gc.ca; Obhrai.D@parl.gc.ca<\/p>\n<p>Date:  2007\/02\/19 @ 10:20 am [GMT-5]<\/p>\n<p>Dear Hon. Peter MacKay,<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Britian is threatening to follow the footsteps of German to stop a grant of \u00a341 million (90M CDN) to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/articles\/1999\/jun1999\/sri-j26.shtml\" title=\"Tamil mass graves excavated in Chemmani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sri Lanka<\/a>.  The reason being:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/070218\/News\/101news.html\" title=\"Sri Lanka's largest-selling Independent English language Sunday newspaper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britain claims that Sri Lanka is guilty of a significant violation of international obligations, particularly human rights, an instigation of hostilities and an unjustified rise in military spending. It believes that instead of spending the sum released on tsunami recovery and poverty reduction it has gone on a spending spree for military hardware and logistics.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Britian is the second EU country to take a stand along this line. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lankanewspapers.com\/news\/2006\/10\/8920.html\" title=\"Germany puts pressure on Lanka, aid frozen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Germany has already announced it was stopping aid<\/a> and called on other EU countries to do the same. It looks like the international community is beginning to understand what Tamils have been saying all along.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/powerkills\/RM1.TAMIL.CHILDREN.HTM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sri Lanka mass murder\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/powerkills\/RM1.TAMIL.CHILDREN.HTM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sri Lanka mass murder\" rel=\"noopener\">Sri Lanka<\/a> is a chauvinistic Sinhala government killing Tamils, not worrying whether they carried guns or not. Their aim is to eradicate Tamils from the island. Tamils need to be saved from the hawks of Sinhala <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tamilnation.org\/indictment\/genocide83\/index.htm\" title=\" INDICTMENT AGAINST SRI LANKA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sri Lanka<\/a>. Sri Lankan army should be evacuated from Tamils homeland, Tamil Eelam. Even Canada seems to take the side of the state terrorist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tamilnation.org\/indictment\/continuingwar\/050602massacre.htm\" title=\"Sri Lanka's War on Eelam Tamils\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sri Lanka<\/a>. Canada followed the footsteps of EU to list, Tamils only hope, LTTE as a terrorist organization. Now EU seems to have realized its wrong-doing.<\/p>\n<p>Is Canada going to continue its support to a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sri_Lanka\" title=\"Sri Lanka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state terrorist<\/a>?  Is Canada not worried about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tamilnet.com\/art.html?catid=79&amp;artid=8387\" title=\"Udumbankulam survives mass murder, forced eviction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sri Lanka<\/a> breaking international obligations?  Does Canada care about the Tamils humans rights in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/articles\/1999\/may1999\/jaff-m01.shtml\" title=\"More Tamil mass graves found in Sri Lanka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sri Lanka<\/a>?  Finally, is Canada providing funds titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/tsunami\/story\/0,,1838618,00.html\" title=\"15 tsunami aid staff executed in Sri Lanka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tsunami Aid<\/a>&#8221; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/wr2k\/Asia-08.htm\" title=\"SRI LANKA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sri Lanka<\/a> to buy <a href=\"http:\/\/asia.news.yahoo.com\/061117\/3\/2t2y0.html\" title=\"Arms on menu as S.Lanka defence spending rises 28 pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">military hardware and logistics to kill Tamils<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I have posted this letter in my blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/adadaa.net\/1letter\/2007\/02\/19\/sri-lanka-tsunami-aid-miliraty-hardware-logistics-tamil-canada\/\" title=\"When is Canada going to act on Sri Lanka?\">When is Canada going to act on Sri Lanka?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>______<br \/>\nCAPitalZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: min.dfaitmaeci@international.gc.ca; MacKay.P@parl.gc.ca Cc: Layton.J@parl.gc.ca; Vellacott.M@parl.gc.ca; PoiliP@parl.gc.ca; Obhrai.D@parl.gc.ca Date: 2007\/02\/19 @ 10:20 am [GMT-5] Dear Hon. Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada. Britian is threatening to follow the footsteps of German to stop a grant of \u00a341 million (90M CDN) to Sri Lanka. The reason being: &#8220;&#8230;Britain claims that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,37,39,41,43,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-sri-lanka","category-tamil-eelam","category-tamils","category-terrorism","category-tsunami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1letter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1letter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1letter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1letter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1letter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1letter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1letter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1letter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1letter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}