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Sri Lankan Tamils remain fearful - Canadian MP
Nov 18, 201312:30 AM
The Canadian government says Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority continues to be fearful of the country’s leadership, as the Commonwealth summit concluded on Sunday.
That’s the conclusion of Deepak Obhrai, a parliamentary secretary to the foreign affairs minister, who travelled this week to Sri Lanka’s Northern region.
Obhrai was sent after Prime Minister Stephen Harper decided to boycott the Commonwealth leaders’ summit over Sri Lanka’s human rights record.
Obhrai says he was sent to Sri Lanka to keep the country’s human rights record front and centre, which involved laying a wreath for all of its innocent civilian victims in the mainly Tamil north, the Canadian Press reported.
Obhrai says the Canadian government continues to question whether the 54-member Commonwealth, an association of former British colonies, is living up to its core values.
Obhrai, who headed the Canadian delegation to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo, met with several Tamil leaders during his visit to the North including the newly elected Chief Minister of the Province, C.V. Wigneswaran.
