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S.P.Thamilselvan

Asoka Weerasinghe Ottawa

November 5, 2007

The Hon. Jim Karygiannis P.C., MP
Liberal MP for Scarbourough-Agincourt
Ontario

Dear Jim:

As a Liberal MP you certainly seem to have got off the gate first to express your *“distress at the news of the death of Mr. S.P.
Tamilselvan, the political leader of the Liberation Tigers of* *Tamil Eelam (LTTE*) *on November 2, 2007.” *What was that statement worth, Jim? Another 1000 Tamil votes at the next federal election!

This statement shows what a great country that we both share, where freedom of speech would allow you to cry on cue on the death of a Tamil Tiger terrorist who was responsible for the killing of thousands of innocent Sinhalese and Muslim civilians, 31 politicians like you, and also the leaders of the other rival terrorist groups that the Tamil Tigers found were a threat, like TELO (Sri Sabaratnam), EPRLF (Padmanabha), PLOTE (Uma Maheswaran) and the leader of the Opposition party (A.Amirthalingham) all Tamils like Tamilselvam. I suppose your heart wouldn’t permit you to cry for them, even on cue, in case you lose thousands of Eelamist-Tamil votes in your riding. I understand your predicament as that is how the political-cookie crumbles in Canada.

What was funny about your statement of condolence was that it reminded me of the cheap Made in China, Dolorama doll, which cries on cue – squeeze its bottom and a tear squirts out. Where was your voice, where was your statement of concern and condolence, to be precise where on earth were you Jim, when a Tamilselvan’s cronies killed Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadiragama, a Tamil, with a sniper bullet, a couple of years ago? It was obvious that there was no one to squeeze the bottom of the crying doll to squirt a tear on cue. That is where you Liberals honesty fail me.

*“In January 2005, following the Tsunami, I visited Sri Lanka and had the opportunity to meet with Mr. Thamilselvan. He expressed thanks to Canadians for their magnanimous generosity in a time of great need,*”
you said. That didn’t surprise me. Thamilselvan would have done the Canadian Tamil Diaspora wrong if he didn’t thank the Liberal MP, when you all have been crafty to hoodwink Canadians with your support for the Tamil Tigers, and good enough to look the other way when the Canadian-Tamils collected two million Canadian dollars each month to stuff the Tamil Tiger warchest, and refuse to ban them as a terrorist group when 31 other countries had done it. I am sure you would have slapped his wrist if he hadn’t thanked you Liberals, to remind him and his Tamil Tigers that the Canadian Liberal government was indeed an important lifeline providing them with financial oxygen and moral support by not banning them. That is why when your leader, Prime Minister Paul Martin visited Sri Lanka in January 2005, terrorist Thamilselven did confer the dubious honour on Canada saying that “Canada is our greatest ally”. That embarrassed most of us Canadians.

You write in your condolence statement that “*Mr. Thamilselvan devoted more than a decade to the pursuit of peace, with justice, to bring an end to the protracted civil war in* *Sri Lanka**.”* What nonsense! What a bunch of Keftethes! Stop continuing to be a joker, Jim.

Here is the dope on S.P. Thamilselvan. He was not much different from his weapon carrying Tamil Tigers and Tigresses who are actively engaged in killing sprees for the want of their mono-ethnic, racist, separate Tamil state, Eelam. He was no Dove of Peace that you emulate him to be.
He joined the LTTE as a child soldier in 1984 and received military training in Indira Gandhi’s India.

Thamilselvan, the terrorist whose death made you shed a tear or two, played a pivotal role in a number of attacks killing thousands of innocent civilians as well as the armed forces including the recent assaults on Kilaly, Muhamalai and Nagarkovil Forward Defence Lines. He was the mastermind in many of these attacks. He was spoiling for a fight and we all know that death looms in such activities. When you live by the bomb, you die by the bomb. That happens to be the natural progression in the theatre of war.

He escaped death twice with injuries during the Kilaly operation in October 1993 and the counter attack on the Yaldevi operations. It is said that he also played a prominent role in the Elephant Pass “debacle”
while commanding terrorist groups way back in July 1991. So in fact he was flirting with death and he knew it.

His military experience combined with terrorist tactics dates back to
1984 when he joined the LTTE as the one-in-charge of the LTTE first-aid scheme immediately after his initial weapon-training. He was also the most trusted aide and the personal body guard of the Tamil Tiger leader Prabhakaran during his visit to India in 1984. Thamilselvan as a shrewd strategist threw his full weight behind all deadly attacks on Jaffna based Indian Peace Keeping Force and Security Forces beginning in 1985.

Oh, sure, he went for these peace negotiations abroad facilitated by the Norwegian government. He and the rest of the Tamil Tigers fooled you every step of the way, each time they went abroad in the guise of attending ‘peace talks’. The Tamil Tigers used these visits as the best chances awarded to them by the Norwegians for the procurement of weapons and funds. Thamilselvan and is military buddies were smart and they did make you peaceniks, and especially the Norwegians look like a bunch of fools. Every step of the way they thumbed their noses at you. At the Geneva summit in 2005, when the Sri Lankan Government was prepared to discuss core issues that made them resort to arms, the Tamil Tigers led by Thamilselvan changed their attitude and adopted delaying tactics.
Thamilselvan was not interested to talk peace other than wanting to carve out one-third of Sri Lanka for their Eelam. That was the bottom line, and I am surprised that you didn’t see it or clue into their wish list.

With this backdrop Jim, I won’t be surprised if you would hear the haunting creepy-strains of Thamilselvan’s brave song in your dreams sung to the lilt of “Don’t cry for me Argentina” ….. “Don’t cry for me Liberal’s Canada”

Asoka Weerasinghe
Ottawa

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