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Allan Rock`s denial of not participated in LTTE`s fund raising dinner, in no way distance him from his support to LTTE
Monday, 4 December 2006 - 6:27 PM SL Time |  | |
Ontario, Canada, 04 December, (Asiantribune.com): Allan Rock was the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and he allowed the LTTE to collect monies during his incumbency. He allowed them to cut a cheque for seven-and-a-half million dollars from a bank in Vancouver in 1994 to buy explosives from a chemical factory in the Ukraine. These were used in a truck bomb to bring down the Central Bank Building in Colombo, and also bomb the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, alleges Asoka Weerasinghe, from Gloucester. Ontario, Canada.
On the 01 of December, Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children Affected by Armed Conflict released a statement, `Allegations against Allan Rock baseless.` The statement further said `At no time, and not in any capacity, have I attended a LTTE fundraising dinner?These claims are baseless.`
This statement was published in the `Asian Tribune.`
In a letter to the Editor, `Asian Tribune`, responding to the news item `Allegations against Allan Rock baseless` Asoka Weerasinghe writes `That statement should in no way distance himself from supporting the Tamil Tigers as he is part of the same tribal political family of Canada`s Liberal Party who has supported the Tamil Tigers by allowing their constituents of Tamil origin to collect two million dollars a month for thirteen years to stuff the Tamil Tiger war chest.`
The full text of the letter addressed the Editor; `Asian Tribune` by Asoka Weerasinghe is given below:
The Editor,
Asian Tribune
Dated: 03 December 2007
Sir:
`Allegations against Allan Rock baseless` you said, but I won`t go that far. The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children Affected by Armed Conflict is right when it reported Allan Rock`s statement `At no time, and not in any capacity, have I attended a LTTE fundraising dinner?These claims are baseless.`
That statement should in no way distance himself from supporting the Tamil Tigers as he is part of the same tribal political family of Canada`s Liberal Party who has supported the Tamil Tigers by allowing their constituents of Tamil origin to collect two million dollars a month for thirteen years to stuff the Tamil Tiger war chest.
He was the Minister of Justice and Attorney General who allowed the Tamil Diaspora to collect monies during his incumbency and allowed them to cut a cheque for seven-and-a-half million dollars from a bank in Vancouver in 1994 to buy explosives from a chemical factory in the Ukraine which were used in a truck bomb to bring down the Central Bank Building in Colombo, and also bomb the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy.
He is part of that political tribe responsible for these misdemeanors and there is no way that he should even try to plead innocence on the indirect involvement of the Liberal Party on these acts of terrorism. The simple logic is?if the Tamils were not allowed to collect funds by Allan Rock`s Liberals? there wouldn`t have been funds to buy explosives from the Ukraine? and thus no explosives to pack a truck to bomb the Central Bank building and the Temple of the Tooth. And it is that simple.
According to the World Mirror, these are the members of parliament of his Liberal clan who attended the fund raising dinner in Toronto for the Tamil Tigers on May 6, 2000, organized by the World Tamil Movement. Paul Martin (Minister of Finance and later Prime Minister of Canada); Maria Minna (M.P for Beaches-East York Minister and Minister of International Cooperation, and later Chairman of the Canada-Sri Lanka Parliamentary Friendship Group); John Nunziat ( M.P. for York South-Weston ); Roy Cullen (M.P. for Etobicoke North and Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Finance); Tony Ianno (M.P. for Trinity-Spadina and Minister of Families and Caregivers); John McKay (M.P. for Scarborough-Guildwood and later Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Finance); Judy Sgro (M.P. for York West and later Minister of Citizenship and Immigration); Tom Wappel (M.P. for Scarborough Southwest); Byron Wilfert (M.P. for Richmond Hill and Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Environment); Jim Karygiannis (M.P. for Scarborough-Agincourt and later Secretary to Minister of Transport) and Joe Volpe (M.P. for Eglinton-Lawrence and later Minister of Human Resources and also Minister of Citizenship and Immigration). Note all these parliamentarians are from ridings in the Greater Toronto Area where almost all the Ontario Tamils live and could guarantee almost a block of 100,000 votes. Allan Rock represented the riding of Etobicocke Centre in that geographic mix.
Rock is from the same political tribe where one of its members the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Judy Sgro, lost her marbles when in January 2005 she had the audacity and temerity to say that she didn`t have to seek permission from the Sri Lankan Government to send her visa officers to the North of Sri Lanka to help process the Tsunami affected Tamil applicants to bring them over to Canada to bolster the Liberal vote bank. She ignored the Sinhalese and Muslims in the East and South who too were affected by the Tsunami. With that white-colonial arrogance she expected the Sri Lankan government to stand at attention when she spoke and let her by-pass the two democracies bi-lateral diplomatic protocol. Such were the Liberals. Such were Allan Rocks tribal members who had their own agenda to discredit the Sri Lankan government and support the Tamil Tigers.
The Toronto Sun of December 14, 2004, reported this same member of Rock`s tribal clan to have had a `senior staffer was quietly fired for suspicion of being a threat to the country, government officials say. The staffer, a Canadian of Sri Lankan origin, has worked for several weeks in Sgro`s Ottawa office, according to sources close to the case. Sources said the Toronto man, whose identity hasn`t been released, was given a top position because he was a tireless recruiter of South Asians for the Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario). Six sources, including police, a Liberal and Conservative MPs and immigration brass, have confirmed the employee was sacked last summer after it was discovered he had links to the Tamil Tigers, who are deemed a terrorist group and banned in Canada.` If the RCMP hadn`t closed in on her staffer, the Liberal Party would have continued this favour indirectly for the Tamil Tigers.
Allan Rock will find it difficult to dissociate himself from the tribal Liberal Party where one of his members Jim Karygiannis, the MP for Scarborough-Agincourt was reported in the National Post as saying, `I was at the rally, yes....It was a FACT (Federation of Associations of Tamil Canadians) rally. It`s not their first or the last that I`ve been to.` Karygiannis raised the Canadian flag at this event where the Tamil attendees waved the Tamil Tigers flag?a Tiger`s head and two crossed rifles surrounded by a circle of bullets. FACT has been identified as a ?: front organization? for the Tamil Tigers by the U.S. State Department and a report published by the Canadian Intelligence Service (CSIS). Allan Rock should have known of it, most likely having been briefed by CSIS as the Justice Minister and Attorney General for the governing Liberal Party from 1993-1997.
Conservative Senator John Lynch-Staunton took Allan Rock`s clan member, the Liberal Party Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan to task during a Senate Committee hearing on the Anti-Terrorist Bill. The following `quotes` as reported may not be verbatim.
Senator: The Bill allows for the listing of terrorist entities?why are the Tamil Tigers not on that list when they are banned in the United State, Britain and elsewhere?
McLellan: The list is constantly being reviewed and updated. It is not static. I continue to monitor that situation very closely.
Senator: What more information do you need when you know that the United States, Britain, Australia, Malaysia and others have banned them.
McLellan: It was related to me?because there was hope for peace talks in Sri Lanka, and it was hoped that the process would lead to some sort of peace negotiation and it was perceived that it would not be helpful if this country listed the Tigers. But I want to reassure everyone here that I review this organization on a regular basis and I will continue to review that situation.
Senator: But money is being raised in Canada and shipped over to Sri Lanka to be used for terrorist activities. That is a known fact. It is a known fact, yet the government refuses to put the name where it belongs ? on the list of terrorist entities so the government can move in, seize bank accounts and arrest people who continue to support rebels and terrorists.
McLellan: Senator, I take your point.
That`s how disingenuous the Allan Rock`s clan was and still is.
I point my finger at Allan Rock`s boss Radhika Coomaraswamy, a Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil, for discarding her sensitivity on this issue, and for not being judicious to not select Allan Rock for this assignment when he was carrying so much of negative baggage of a conglomeration of his biases in favor of the Tamil Tiger terrorists.
I equally blame the Sri Lankan Government for being foolish to feel that they are obliged by international protocol to let the two-word mantra, `UN` rule over their good governance, and let in every Dick, Tom, Harry or a Jane who are sent by the UN on fact finding missions without a background check of the individuals. And more so the letters `UN` should never be a reason to let any foreigner or a local representative of the UN to be handed the key to the` Open Sesame` syndrome so that they could walk freely meeting people in every nook and cranny of Sri Lanka without being accompanied by a designated Sri Lankan official.
Lack of such controls have certainly created this Allan Rock episode which has engaged most of us to dissipate our energies trying to understand his motives in t... |
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| No one needs Alan Rock to report on Sri Lankas violations of human right laws, whe whole world knows........... No point shooting the messenger....If he is a supporter of LTTE he must feel that LTTE are right and its a recognition by another aspect of the IC... this is a proof that more and more of the IC are recognising LTTE as a legitimate force representing the Tamils!!! |
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