The recent murder of Canadian-Tamil  Anthonypillai Mahendrarasa, has underscored the “enduring ethnic violence” in Sri Lanka, reported the Globe and Mail on Tuesday, after the slain businessman’s funeral last week near Montreal.

Commenting that Mr Mahendrarasa felt that his Canadian citizenship would protect him when travelling in Sri Lanka, they noted how he told friend “They can't do anything to me”, despite their cautions regarding his travel plans.

Rathika Sitsabaiesan, a Canadian-Tamil MP from Toronto commented, 

“Our Canadian brother, who is also Tamil, was murdered there, and this type of thing cannot continue to go on. We need to make sure the Canadian government is pushing for an investigation – a lot of members of the community are outraged.”

Also speaking to the Globa and Mail, TNA MP Suresh Premachandran stated,

“We are totally under army occupation still in the northern provinces. So many people want their property back, their shops and houses back. But the military says, ‘Whatever was occupied by the LTTE now belongs to us.’”

Meanwhile, the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada, Chitranganee Wagiswara continued to deny what she called the “wild allegations” made by “groups sympathetic to the Tamil Tigers”.

See the full report from the Globe and Mail here.

See our earlier posts:

Embassy examines murder site of Canadian Tamil (07 May 2012)

Canadian Tamil found murdered in Vanni (05 May 2012)