Sri Lanka accuses Canadian government of ‘placating’ Tamil Tigers as row over Commonwealth summit grows news.nationalpost/2013/11/13/sri-lanka-accuses-canadian-government-of-placating-tamil-tigers-as-row-over-commonwealth-summit-grows/ Canada and Sri Lanka traded shots Wednesday in the build-up to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Colombo, which Prime Minister Stephen Harper is boycotting over the island nation’s human rights record. After MP Deepak Obhrai laid a wreath in northern Sri Lanka “in memory of all innocent Sri Lankan victims of violence,” Colombo responded by accusing him of paying tribute to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels. “PM Harper’s rep lays flowers for Tigers,” read the headline in the nationalist newspaper The Island. “A senior security official alleged that the Canadian’s gesture was meant to placate the LTTE activists in Canada,” read the accompanying article.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 02:28:28 +0000
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