LTTE Tamil Terrorist flag bearers requests Canada to remove sovereign immunity on Sri Lanka via a petition presented by MP Gary Anandasangaree

Ottawa – Saturday October  2, 2020 – LTTE Tamil Terrorist flag bearers requests to remove sovereign immunity on Sri Lanka via a petition presented by MP Gary Anandasangaree

MP Anandasangaree is the son of Veerasingham Anandasangaree in Sri Lanka who is a leading Sri Lankan Tamil politician, former Member of Parliament and leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) . In 2007, Veerasingham Anandasangaree authored an article titled “Prabakaran should be held responsible for the deaths of over 70,000 people in Sri Lanka“ ^[1]

There have been many attempts by pro-Eelam diaspora and LTTE remnant leaders in Canada, Tamil Nadu and around the world to project Sri Lanka as a human rights violator and white wash the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and it’s separatist objectives via various means. Their attempt is to legitimise the separatist movement and objectives using Canadian and western freedom of expression values. On many occassions glorification of terrorists were carried out as celebrating freedom fighters. While the Canadian government bans the likes of which celebrating terrorists like Bin Laden, it does not or fails to recognise remnant LTTE members attempts to glorify terrorists. Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE)’s current leader  (Prime Minister) is Visvanathan Rudrakumaran. He was the former international legal advisor to the LTTE Tamil Terrorists, and a close associate of the LTTE supreme leader during his reign of terror.^[2][3]

According to Dr. Nilanga Samarasinghe’s article 2 , “Father Emmanuel created the Global Tamil Forum, the premier LTTE international organisation to project Sri Lanka as a human rights violator and white wash the LTTE. To promote the LTTE message in Geneva, Father Emmanuel worked with Gary Anandasangari of the Canadian Tamil Congress that came up with the idea that there was ‘genocide’ in Sri Lanka. GaryAnandasangari was in contact with LTTE chief procurement and shipping officer Kumaran Pathmanathan and planned to visit him in Malaysia. After KP was arrested and deported to Sri Lanka, Father Emmanuel assumed LTTE global leadership and worked the British Tamil Front, Canadian Tamil Congress, and the Australian Tamil Congress, and other LTTE fronts.”

Federal government banned LTTE in 2006 ³. There have been many attempts to lift the ban on LTTE around the world.

Late September 2020, TGTE staged a walk and their invocation to Canada is to refer Sri Lanka to the committee established under the United Nations convention against enforced disappearance. Despite Sri Lanka’s ratification to the UN’s convention against enforced disappearances in 2016, TGTE invoked a provision of the international treaty which prevents victims from petitioning the committee over a country’s violations of the convention. Yet, only another country can make such a complaint against Sri Lanka. Canada, however, has not signed on to the convention at all, limiting its standing to make such a complaint.