Response to MPP Thanigasalam’s July 2nd e-mail (Talking Points) to community

Dr. Hewage concludes that, “Mr. Vijay Thanigasalam, MPP Scarborough-Rough Park has deliberately manipulated the facts and misled members of the Ontario Legislative Assembly. His allegations against Sri Lanka do not substantiate. Tamil LTTE terrorists who engaged three decades of fighting with the Sri Lanka government cannot be excluded wherever the Sri Lankan conflict is discussed. The armed conflict against the Tamil LTTE terrorist group should be studied in its entirety and not only during its final months. A fight against Tamil LTTE terrorists is purely armed conflict and does not meet the threshold to establish Tamil Genocide. All references indicated by MPP Thanigasalam do not provide any categorized evidence of the intent to prove Genocide against Tamils ever took place. Further, the allegations are not substantiated against International Humanitarian Law and Geneva Convention. The factually incorrect and patently false narrative presented in the email dated July 02 2020 and on the Bill 104, (Alleged) Tamil Genocide Education Week Act, 2019, must be rejected.”

Full submission can be found here:
https://tinyurl.com/y9cnv3ld

As a community we request elected representatives to exercise responsibility to maintain social harmony in the community, province and in Canada. We also request that you please stay away from divisive politics.

If you have any questions or comments about this submission, please email: speakup@srilankancanadian.ca