SRI LANKA UNITED NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
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Media Release                                                                                                             January 18, 2005
 
 
                                                      Grim Fairy Tales by TNA's Sampanthan 
 
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and their propagandists were raising a storm after the tsunami disaster to
point out that there was discrimination in the distribution of relief aid to areas of the north and east of Sri Lanka.  They
had to admit to Prime Minister Martin that adequate relief was reaching all areas.  In meetings with Mr. Martin and the
Canadian media, the pro-LTTE R.Sampanthan of the Tamil National Alliance, described earlier as an elder statesman
of the extremist group, has tried to sell 'grim fairy tales' (not Grimm's Fairy Tales) to the visitors, which we quote from
reports carried in the Canadian print media:
 
" We don't think the LTTE is either terrorist or vicious".  Well, they have only exploded around 255 human bombs
using their Black Tiger suicide bombers against mainly civilian targets.  They have used prisoners held in dungeons as
blood banks for blood transfusions.  They have carried out ethnic cleansing massacres of Sinhala villagers in remote
hamlets and killed Buddhists and Muslims while performing religious observances.  They have killed  only a few
thousand of their own Tamil people whom they want to liberate, and continue to kill those whom they consider
dissidents in order to become the sole representatives of the Tamils.  In Sampanthan's view, these are not terrorist or
vicious acts, but merely boisterous behaviour on the part of a bunch of armed kids.
 
Sampanthan said the civil war has left many children homelesss and poor, or their parents unable to feed them.  " In
that type of a situation it is possible that the LTTE lends a helping hand to some of these children.  It could
very well be that when such things happen, that is being described as child recruitment. "   Mr. Sampanthan,
go tell it to the marines, do not mention it to UNICEF or Human Rights Watch.
 
There is also talk of Canada being asked to play a bigger role in Sri Lanka's stalled peace process and share the
facilitation role with Norway.  Canada will not be acceptable as an impartial faciliator as could be seen even from the
posturing and rhetoric on the part of the Liberal Party Government led by Mr. Martin,  which was apparently tilted
towards the extremist Tamil Tigers, and mainly wanting to please this group to hold on to the Tamil votes in the
Toronto area ridings.  The vast majority of the Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors, Malays and Burghers making up the nation
of Sri Lanka who peacefully co-exist in the rest of the country were ignored by the Martin entourage. Canada permits
the known front, cover and sympathetic organizations of the LTTE to freely function in Canada, and has failed to prevent
the flow of Canadian funds into the LTTE's war machine making Canada a part of the terrorist problem in Sri Lanka.
 
 
                                                                Yours very truly,
 
 
                                                                Mahinda Gunasekera
                                                                Honourary President