Canadians Gather to Conclude Tamil IDP Crisis Awareness Week

Posted on November 10, 2008 by vaahai

Canadians Gather to Conclude Tamil IDP Crisis Awareness Week
Toronto, November 7, 2008 – Human rights activists, Anti-War activists, politicians, leaders from various community groups, and more than two thousand community members rallied in Toronto, under very bad weather conditions, to call for immediate international intervention to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Sri Lanka. The [...]

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Canadians Unite to Speak in One Voice – CanadianHART Campaign Calls for Greater Community Participation

Posted on November 6, 2008 by vaahai

 
CanadianHART ’s Campaign – Open your Eyes for HART” has been endorsed by Toronto Coalition to Stop the War (TCSW). Excerpts from the CanadianHART PR follows:

Tuesday, November 4, 2008 – Several Canadian organizations have joined the CanadianHART’s call for immediate International humanitarian intervention to save the lives of Internally Displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka.

Toronto Coalition to [...]

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  • Tamils & Self-Determination

    "All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. .." Article 1.1, The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966

  • Boycott Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka Government is engaged in a systematic anihilation of the native population of the island - the Tamils. It has been in the top 3 countries from around the world in Government sponsored disappearances consistently for more than 15 years. Over the past 5 years more than 120 media personnel have been killed. More than 6000 Tamils have been killed over the same period by the Government of Sri Lanka. However it continues to receive about $900 million from Japan, about $600 million from China, and $250 million from India, per year. It is time the world community stops aiding a murderous regime.