"SELF DETERMINATION IS KEY TO THE WORLD PEACE"
TWO YEARS AFTER MAY 18, 2009
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Tamil People in Sri Lanka STILL IN SEARCH OF JUSTICE
Tamil Resoucres Cetre TRC thedakam@gmail.com
PLEASE ATTEND THE FORUM ON WEDNESDAY JUNE 22
TWO YEARS AFTER MAY 18, 2009
The Tamil people in Sri Lanka are STILL
IN SEARCH OF JUSTICE
During the last election campaign Harper’s Conservative ads portrayed images of the M.V. Sun Sea, which carried 492 Sri Lankan Tamil women, men and children fleeing the country because of outright or well founded fear of persecution from the on-going human rights abuses in the aftermath of the war including abduction, involuntary disappearances, and the increasing militarization of Sri Lanka’s North and East. It was said that Stephan Harper had “taken action to protect our borders from human smuggling”.
In early 2009 Toronto witnessed massive rallies, demonstrations, human chains, and the blockade at the Gardiner Expressway organized by young Tamil activists to bring the attention of the international community to the last phase of the war where Tamils lost tens of thousands of family members and friends in Sri Lanka. The April 2011 report of the UN panel of experts says “the conduct of the war represented a grave assault on the entire regime of international law designed to protect individual dignity during both war and peace”. The purpose of this public forum is to unpack the UN report, and explore ways of pressing the demand for an independent inquiry on war crimes and crimes against humanity, and also build awareness of the current state of human rights in Sri Lanka.
A PUBLIC FORUM
WEDNESDAY JUNE 22 – 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
OISE – Room 2214
252 Bloor Street West – (St. George Subway)
Speakers:
Prof. Cheran Rudhramoorthy (University of Windsor)
John Argue – Amnesty International Canada
Leanne Wilkins – United Food and Commercial Workers Union
Rohitha Bashana Abeywardane – Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (SKYPE presentation from Europe)
Solidarity Messages: Canadian Federation of Students and No One Is Illegal
Organized by: OPIRG Toronto, Urban Alliance on Race Relations, Canadian Forum for Justice and Peace in Sri Lanka, Canadian Tamil Congress, Centre for War Victims and Human Rights, National Council of Canadian Tamils, Tamil Resource Centre, Tamil Workers Alliance, Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam.
Endorsed by: CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee, United Steelworkers Toronto Area Council, Barrio Nuevo, Basics Community News Service, Canadian Arab Federation, Canadian Peace alliance, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, ILPS Canada, No One Is Illegal, Philippine Solidarity Group, Socialist Project, Toronto Coalition to Stop the War, York Federation of Students.
For further information:
John Argue: jbargue@direct.ca , Jim Davis: jdavis@kairoscanada.org , Aparna Sundar: asundar@ryerson.ca
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Tamil Resource Centre (Thedakam)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
416 840 7335
www.trcto.org
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GLOBAL PEACE SUPPORT GROUP - UK - TIRELESSLY WORK ON THE CONCEPT OF:
"SELF DETERMINATION IS KEY TO THE WORLD PEACE"
MOURNS ON THE CONTINUED TRAGEDY OF THE PEOPLE OF North & East of Tamil EELAM WITH THE HOPE OF ALL OF OUR ENDEAVOURS WOULD BRING AN END TO THOSE SUFFERING DURING THE YEAR AHEAD.
The International community has a duty towards the long suffering Sri Lankan Tamil population to restore their rights of SELF DETERMINATION.
Global Peace Support Group - believes that this is the ONLY way for a permanent PEACE in Sri Lanka.
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