An event to commemorate the anniversary of the end of the armed conflict was marked by Canadian Tamils and politicians at an event in the Canadian parliament.
Several MPs and senators spoke at the event on Thursday, hosted by the Canadian Tamil Congress.
A message by the leader of the opposition NDP, Thomas Mulcair was read out by MP Paul Dewar.
“As Tamil Canadians mark the 5th anniversary of the ay 2009 event in SL, we are reminded by such injustice and the loss of so many lives that it is our duty to prevent similar wrong doings from being visited on others,” Mr Mulcair said in his statement.
MP Kirsty Duncan expressed her sorrow at international failure to help the Tamil people and pldged to keep fighting for justice.
Rathika Sitsabaiesan, MP for Scarborough Rouge River in Toronto shared her experience of her visit to the island earlier this year.
“Many of you here are , like me, a child of the war. If that government can treat me the way they treated, with intimidation and coercion and just trying to get me out of that country, a privileged Canadian, […] imagine what those people who continue to live on that island go through on a daily basis,” she said.
Senator David Smith, Senator Don Meredith and MP Patrick Brown also spoke at the event.
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