The bill 104 which is in its Second reading in the Ontario Parliament of Canada seeks to establish a week of “Tamil Genocide Education” from May 18th to 25th every year. If this passed and enacted, 4800+ schools in the Ontario province by Law will have to teach all their students that there was a Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka – in 2009.
This is a highly dislocated and deformed ideological and politically charged position.
Up to now, even the UN High Commission for Human Rights has not used such loaded discourse about the last days of the war in Sri Lanka.
If such teaching is to be institutionalized, that would permanently and deeply damage the present and future reconciliation attempts by both the Sri Lankan government and the global moderate Tamils.
This bill needs to be defeated in its present form and instead, I invite the proponents to engage with Sri Lanka Government in a more constructive and results-producing process. I am more than willing to be the facilitator of such an initiative.
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