Canadian Peace Alliance supports Tamil nation’s self-determination

by admin
Oct 23, 2011

An umbrella organisation consisting of 180 groups, representing over a million Canadians, passed a resolution last week expressing its support for the self-determination of the Tamil nation and calling for an immediate halt to the ongoing genocide in the Tamil homeland.

In a special panel discussion on Sri Lanka during their bi-annual convention, the Canadian Peace Alliance called for an “immediate end to the colonialism and genocide of the Tamil nation and an end to the occupation of the Tamil homeland by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and its allied paramilitary groups.”

Mr. Sid Lacombe, Coordinator of the Canadian Peace Alliance told the convention,

“From Afghanistan to Palestine to Tamil Eelam, occupation is a crime.”

The move comes as Canada’s largest trade union, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, demanded that Sri Lanka “immediately withdraw from Tamil Eelam”.

The Canadian Federation of Students also passed a resolution last week which condemned the brutal assault on the President of the Jaffna University Students Union.

See the report from TamilNet here.

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