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Both sides share blame for Sri Lankan troubles: RaeLayton Seeks Ceasefire
Matthew Coutts, National Post
Published: Saturday, April 04, 2009
A conference on Sri Lanka's humanitarian crisis that was harshly critical of that country's government heard a somewhat different message yesterday when Liberal MP Bob Rae told delegates the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam must also be held culpable for the decades-long civil war that has led to hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties and displacements.
"What I have to say here today will not necessarily make everyone thrilled," Mr. Rae told about 100 Tamil Canadians attending the Human Rights and Sri Lanka Conference yesterday.
"There is irrefutable evidence of breaches of international humanitarian law and breaches of international obligations on the part of both the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) and the government of Sri Lanka. It has to be understood that the solution we have seen to conflicts like this around the world have involved ... a commitment from both the parties that a military solution is not the answer," he said.
Bob Rae is an opportunist!
ReplyDeleteThey are chasing mythical 200,000 Tamil votes (but in reality it has been proved less than 29,000)
Actually I think there are around 200k in Toronto. This is just a poor attempt to show less numbers, so that it looks as if Toronto Star reporting is "not" biased towards a larger readership ($) and Liberals are "not" going after votes (X)...!
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