Police seize documents in raid on Tamil group
[b]Police seize documents in raid on Tamil group[/b]
Police have raided the offices of a Tamil organization in Montreal as part of an investigation into terrorist financing, the RCMP said yesterday.
A counter-terrorism team made up of RCMP, Montreal police and Quebec provincial police searched the Montreal office of the World Tamil Movement.
The search warrant says police are investigating four alleged criminal offences, all related to financing and facilitating terrorist activity.
"There were no arrests and it was mainly documents and information that were seized from the location," said Corporal Sylvain L'Heureux, an RCMP spokesman.
The raid occurred on the night of April 12 -- just two days after Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day announced the Tamil Tigers had been placed on Canada's list of banned terrorist organizations.
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Police seize documents in raid on Tamil group
[quote="true.reporter"][quote="Zulu"]Looks like this is what col. Karuna did?[/quote]
As I mentioned, Tamils are still at stage 1. They are not ready for stage II.
But, if you feel that Tamils are stage II, that is have their own land and rights to rule themselves, then as you say this is what karuna did. (of course this means Tamils neighbour SL is occupying Tamils land and interfering into their 'internal affair.
.[/quote]I am not sure if I understand you correctly.
First I thought stage 1, means tamils are using political means to resolve the internal crisis.
Now you are saying stage II, that is to have their own land and rights to rule themselves.
My question was,
Is it possible Col. Karuna's defection from LTTE, can be looked at, as you said below,
[quote="true.reporter"]When you are harassed and discriminated by your own kind, you fight back through political process, demonstrations, etc.. If this doesn't work you take up arms.[/quote]
Police seize documents in raid on Tamil group
[quote="Zulu"]Looks like this is what col. Karuna did?[/quote]
As I mentioned, Tamils are still at stage 1. They are not ready for stage II.
But, if you feel that Tamils are stage II, that is have their own land and rights to rule themselves, then as you say this is what karuna did. (of course this means Tamils neighbour SL is occupying Tamils land and interfering into their 'internal affair.
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Police seize documents in raid on Tamil group
[quote="true.reporter"][quote="Zulu"][b]When you are discriminated by another ethnic group, you hate them and take up arms to fight.(or at least you become an arm chair critic in supportive of that fight)
What would you do when you are harassed and discriminated by YOUR OWN KIND?[/b][/quote]
When you are discriminated by another group, you don't tak up arms right away. First you negotiate through political process, if it doesn't work you separate through a peace process, even this doesn't work you take up arms.
When you are harassed by your own kind, you fight back through political process, demonstrations, etc.. If this doesn't work you take up arms.
In Lanka, we are still on stage 1.
.[/quote]
[quote]When you are harassed and discriminated by your own kind, you fight back through political process, demonstrations, etc.. If this doesn't work you take up arms.[/quote]
[b]Looks like this is what col. Karuna did?[/b]
Police seize documents in raid on Tamil group
[quote="Zulu"][b]When you are discriminated by another ethnic group, you hate them and take up arms to fight.(or at least you become an arm chair critic in supportive of that fight)
What would you do when you are harassed and discriminated by YOUR OWN KIND?[/b][/quote]
When you are discriminated by another group, you don't tak up arms right away. First you negotiate through political process, if it doesn't work you separate through a peace process, even this doesn't work you take up arms.
When you are harassed by your own kind, you fight back through political process, demonstrations, etc.. If this doesn't work you take up arms.
In Lanka, we are still on stage 1.
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Police seize documents in raid on Tamil group
[quote="true.reporter"][quote="Zulu"][b]
I think every tamil should take real hard look at "What's wrong here?"[/b]
[/quote]
After a real hard look at "what's wrong here?"
- sinhala only act
- standardization
- unitary constitution
and in overall non-acceptance of north-east tamils rights to internal self-determination.
.[/quote]
[b]When you are discriminated by another ethnic group, you hate them and take up arms to fight.(or at least you become an arm chair critic in supportive of that fight)
What would you do when you are harassed and discriminated by YOUR OWN KIND?[/b]
Police seize documents in raid on Tamil group
[quote="true.reporter"][quote="Zulu"][b]
I think every tamil should take real hard look at "What's wrong here?"[/b]
[/quote]
After a real hard look at "what's wrong here?"
- sinhala only act
- standardization
- unitary constitution
and in overall non-acceptance of north-east tamils rights to internal self-determination.
.[/quote]
TRUE REPORTER:
where you are living, you work in tamil and your children learn in tamil.
I am sure, except Bharatha Natyam, everything else your childeren learn is TAMIL.
IN Sri Lanka, because it is is free education, it has to be standardized. Where you are right now, if you don't have money, then again it is standardized.
Like in Sri Lanka, you learn free of charge, then start blaming the govt.
Again the west also had it's share of racist - riots ,mostly in the Europe.
Some one wrote, in Canada, if some lunatic NAtive indian start killing everybody saing this is our homeland will you run away again.
Other things only in your dreams.
Police seize documents in raid on Tamil group
[quote="Zulu"][b]
I think every tamil should take real hard look at "What's wrong here?"[/b]
[/quote]
After a real hard look at "what's wrong here?"
- sinhala only act
- standardization
- unitary constitution
and in overall non-acceptance of north-east tamils rights to internal self-determination.
.
Police seize documents in raid on Tamil group
[b]We, as sinhalese are immigrants in the western world.
Tamils also are immigrants in the western world, regardless of how they got there(refugee or landed).
We sinhalese live here peacefully not worrying someone is out there to kill my brother, sister, parents or anyone dear to me if we do not support certain rebels.
OR
Some one is out there trying to steal any property what came for our generations.
I think every tamil should take real hard look at "What's wrong here?"[/b]
RCMP in Canada is doing a fine job bringing the facts to the fore front.
They did not have the law on their side before.
Police seize documents in raid on Tamil group
Did the news item for discussion has anything to do with Homes in Srilanka????
If any news against the little tigers can be re-produced, the news web link can be posted but not of ther wise.
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Police seize documents in raid on Tamil group
I thought we cannot reproduce anything from other news media??????
Anyway, this issue is very critical to many tamils. But it depends on what citizenship they have now, have they reported to their current nation about the properties they owned, etc.
I heard that many people got their refugee status accepted by saying that they were harrassed by SLA and/or LTTE.
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Police seize documents in raid on Tamil group
Tamil Canadians fear for Sri Lankan homes
SARAH ELTON
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
Tamil Canadians who arrived as refugees from Sri Lanka's civil war fear they will lose the homes they left behind after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam announced last week that they will seize expatriates' property.
In a Voice of Tigers radio interview that was widely published in Tamil community papers last week in Toronto, an LTTE legal official with the nom de guerre Sudar revealed the plan to take over property belonging to Tamils who left more than 10 years ago and redistribute it to the landless.
"It's quite draconian," said one Toronto Tamil who believes his family will lose a plot of farmland and a house in the town of Jaffna, which they left when they fled northern Sri Lanka to avoid his conscription into the LTTE at the age of 13. The Toronto resident would speak to The Globe and Mail only under conditions of anonymity to protect his family in Colombo.
As detailed in the radio interview transcript, the legislation that will be implemented in the LTTE-controlled north and east will forbid expatriates from selling their property in anticipation of the land seizure. Tamils who live abroad or in other areas of Sri Lanka will be permitted to secure the title to their land only by returning to live on it. Though they will be allowed to hand it over to a relative who can cultivate it, control will remain with the LTTE.
"This is the only worldly possession that we have," said the Toronto Tamil, explaining that the properties are his family's only assets because they have lived as refugees for more than a decade. "That was the last place that my family was together as a happy, united family. Losing that to somebody -- I can't even think about it."
The Canadian Tamil Congress, which aims to provide a unified voice from this country's Tamil community, would not comment on the issue.
"We haven't seen the document. Without seeing it, we can't speculate," said the person who answered the phone at the congress and would not give his name.
News of the planned takeover is spreading fast through the Tamil expatriate community. According to one of the editors of a community paper that published the Voice of Tigers interview, Tamils in Toronto are angry. Of the more than 200,000 Tamil Canadians, many stand to lose their property back home, though no one feels comfortable speaking publicly about it.
Even though readers are upset, he said, none will be writing editorials or letters to the editor to express their outrage here in Canada.
"Most of the people don't write letters to us because they're scared. If they write their names, they get a hard time," he said, also declining to give his name for publication.
This fear of speaking out about the land transfer because of potential reprisal by LTTE affiliates, even though they live in a democratic society far from the conflict, frustrates the Toronto Tamil. He cited the Human Rights Watch report issued last month detailing widespread intimidation and extortion by the LTTE in the West, including Canada, as proof that their fears are well founded.
"We don't have a voice in this war, people who aren't on either side. . . . I'm voiceless because I don't have a gun," he said.
Special to The Globe and Mail