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Canada overtakes GTF in anti-Lanka offensive

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Although the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) was pushing extremely hard for an international war crimes probe into the alleged accountability issues in Sri Lanka, with a major conference in the UK parliament scheduled for Feb. 27, the Canadian government had emerged as the leading campaigner against Colombo, ministerial sources told The Island.

 

The target of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s campaign was the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka in November this year, Foreign Service sources said last night. Responding to a query, they said that unlike the GTF campaign, the Canadian action had brought tremendous pressure on member states of the Commonwealth and the CMAG (Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group) to deprive Sri Lanka of an opportunity to host the CHOGM 2013.

 

In spite of Sri Lanka’s strong objections, Canada has called on CMAG to take up Sri Lanka at its next meeting in London.

 

The Tamil Diaspora of Sri Lankan origin is exerting heavy pressure on Canadian political parties at times of major elections, a Foreign Ministry official said, noting that Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent had had to eat humble pie in the run-up to last general election in early 2011, after having criticized his own party (Conservative) for deciding to field Ragavan Paranchothy, widely believed to be a pro-LTTE activist on the Conservative party ticket. Minister Kent had to withdraw his criticism and apologize to Premier Harper, who publicly defended Paranchothy.

 

LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s successor, Kumaran Pathmanathan better known as KP after his arrest in Malaysia in Aug 2009 said that at the time of his arrest he was on a call to Paranchothy.

 

http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=73160

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