Comments on: Western Media Fooled By Tamils Tales Of Woe, But Not CG-Time To Tell The Other Side Of The Story http://www.crookedincanada.com/2008/09/western-media-fooled-by-tamils-tales-of-woe-but-not-cg-time-to-tell-the-other-side-of-the-story/ Not just about politics and in your face. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:33:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tmorgan http://www.crookedincanada.com/2008/09/western-media-fooled-by-tamils-tales-of-woe-but-not-cg-time-to-tell-the-other-side-of-the-story/comment-page-1/#comment-1466 tmorgan Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:51:44 +0000 http://crookedincanada.com/?p=1241#comment-1466 Characterizing all Tamils as LTTE terrorists? Only a small percentage of Tamils showed up to those red flag waving rallies. The vast majority are law abiding and avoid the Tamil Tigers LTTE. We are not all Black July http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_July Tamils either. Sri Lanka turns back Tamil aid ship http://vannimission.org/2009/06/08/press-release-8th-june http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=51453 Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses. - Naomi Klein If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. - ArchBishop Desmond Tutu If there is no magnanimity in victory there is no victory - Canadian MP Bob Rae, Liberal Foreign Affairs Critic who was deported after landing with an approved Sri Lankan Visa If you think of yourself as Chinese, Malays, Indians and Sri Lankans, then Singapore will collapse. You must think of Singapore: 'This is my country.' I fight and die for Singapore if necessary. - S. Rajaratnam [Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora], Singapore Foreign Minister & founder of ASEAN who advised against Sri Lanka's membership due to their divisive ethnic politics The first legal record of ethnic cleansing of Sri Lankan Tamils: According to Clause 3 of the Kandyan Convention of 2 March 1815, "... hereby declared enemies to the government and excluded and prohibited from entering those provinces on any pretense whatever, without a written permission for that purpose by the authority of the British Government, under the pains and penalties of martial law, which is hereby declared to be in force for that purpose; and all persons of the Malabar Caste [Tamils] now expelled from the said provinces, are under the same penalties, prohibited from returning, except with the permission before mention" as per the request of the Sinhalese chiefs who signed. Characterizing all Tamils as LTTE terrorists?

Only a small percentage of Tamils showed up to those red flag waving rallies. The vast majority are law abiding and avoid the Tamil Tigers LTTE. We are not all Black July http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_July Tamils either.

Sri Lanka turns back Tamil aid ship
http://vannimission.org/2009/06/08/press-release-8th-june
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=51453

Terrorism doesn’t just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism – real and exaggerated – has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.
- Naomi Klein

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. – ArchBishop Desmond Tutu

If there is no magnanimity in victory there is no victory
- Canadian MP Bob Rae, Liberal Foreign Affairs Critic who was deported after landing with an approved Sri Lankan Visa

If you think of yourself as Chinese, Malays, Indians and Sri Lankans, then Singapore will collapse. You must think of Singapore: ‘This is my country.’ I fight and die for Singapore if necessary.
- S. Rajaratnam [Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora], Singapore Foreign Minister & founder of ASEAN who advised against Sri Lanka’s membership due to their divisive ethnic politics

The first legal record of ethnic cleansing of Sri Lankan Tamils:
According to Clause 3 of the Kandyan Convention of 2 March 1815, “… hereby declared enemies to the government and excluded and prohibited from entering those provinces on any pretense whatever, without a written permission for that purpose by the authority of the British Government, under the pains and penalties of martial law, which is hereby declared to be in force for that purpose; and all persons of the Malabar Caste [Tamils] now expelled from the said provinces, are under the same penalties, prohibited from returning, except with the permission before mention” as per the request of the Sinhalese chiefs who signed.

]]> By: Chasing a Convicted Terrorist Out Of Canada http://www.crookedincanada.com/2008/09/western-media-fooled-by-tamils-tales-of-woe-but-not-cg-time-to-tell-the-other-side-of-the-story/comment-page-1/#comment-620 Chasing a Convicted Terrorist Out Of Canada Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:52:14 +0000 http://crookedincanada.com/?p=1241#comment-620 [...] terrorists, ever. That was twenty years ago, but today Canada has become a safe-haven for Syrian, Tamil, Pakistani, Sikh, and Taliban terrorists who have either lied their way into the country by [...] [...] terrorists, ever. That was twenty years ago, but today Canada has become a safe-haven for Syrian, Tamil, Pakistani, Sikh, and Taliban terrorists who have either lied their way into the country by [...]

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