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Sri Lanka Slams Canada And Supports India, LTTE Elements Still Receive Support In Canada

September 26, 2023
The Commune

On 25 September 2023, the Canadian Government of Justin Trudeau suffered yet another major diplomatic reversal when India’s Southern neighbor Sri Lanka extended its support to India while slamming Canada for felicitating a Nazi soldier.

The Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said “Some of the terrorists have found safe haven in Canada. The Canadian PM has this way of just coming out with some outrageous allegations without any supporting proof. The same thing they did for Sri Lanka, a terrible, total lie about saying that Sri Lanka had a genocide. Everybody knows there was no genocide in our country. I saw yesterday he had gone and given a rousing welcome to somebody who have associated with the Nazis in the past during the Second World War. So this is questionable and we have dealt with it in the past. I am not surprised that sometime PM Trudeau comes out with outrageous and substantiated allegations.”

Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda stated Colombo has zero tolerance for terrorism and gave his country’s support to India on the Khalistan issue. The Sri Lankan ambassador was addressing at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) South Asia, and said, “India’s response is firm and direct, we support India. Sri Lanka has suffered from various forms of terrorism in the last four decades and therefore we have zero tolerance for terrorism.”

Moragoda further talked about how India played such a vital role in helping Sri Lanka when it was going through its worst economic period and thanked India for stabilizing the island nation. Also, the ambassador announced that in March next year, India and Sri Lanka could develop an understanding and sign a trade pact.

Also, one other major issue Sri Lanka still has with Canada which India has called a safe haven for terrorists is its support for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

MEA spokesperson Arindham Bagchi said, “If you’re talking about reputational issues and reputational damage, if there’s any country that needs to look at this, I think it is Canada and its growing reputation as a place, as a safe haven for terrorists, for extremists, and for organised crime.” 

As per a report by Humans Right Watch, “many Tamils willingly contribute money to the LTTE, many others do so because they feel they have little choice. The same fear that silences critics of the LTTE prompts many members of the diaspora to provide financial support for the LTTE, regardless of whether they support the LTTE’s cause.“

Ninety percent of people, even if they don’t support the LTTE, they are scared. The killing doesn’t just happen back home in Sri Lanka. It happens in Paris, in Canada. They burned the library,1 they broke the legs of DBS Jeyaraj. They tried to stop the CTBC radio from organizing. A journalist was killed in Paris. The threat is not only in Sri Lanka. It’s everywhere, all over the world.
—Tamil community activist, Toronto, January 2006

India in an unprecedented move issued an advisory asking Indian nationals and students living in Canada to exercise caution and also asked Indian nationals to avoid traveling to Canada in the wake of “politically condoned” hate crimes against patriotic Indians. 

The diplomatic war between India and Canada is getting intensified wherein the latter accused New Delhi of being involved in the killing of Khalistani terrorists Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil. 

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