Last Updated: Tuesday, March 17, 2009Toronto police are looking into whether flags carried as part of a protest by members of Toronto's Tamil community this week violated Canada's anti-terrorism laws.
Thousands of Toronto Tamils formed a human chain on Monday around the downtown core to call attention to the civil war in Sri Lanka and call for Canada to pressure the Sri Lankan government to engage Tamil rebels in ceasefire talks.
During the protest, an untold number of men, women and children of all ages waved the red flags of the Tamil Tigers, the militant group that has led the fight for an independent Tamil nation in the north of the South Asian island.
The flags, which feature the image of a tiger jumping through a ring of fire under two crossed rifles, are easily available through the internet on the website Craigslist and can even be delivered by calling a local number.
Toronto police today stated that it is not illegal to carry the LTTE flag. Unbelievable
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