Shaun Chen, Member of Parliament for Scarborough North, Ontario, addressed Canada's House of Commons to present a petition calling for Ottawa to take Sri Lanka to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and support an independence referendum.
“From coast to coast to coast, the petition highlights Canada as a diasporic home to the largest number of Eelam Tamils—a nation of people who have faced protracted genocide for over 75 years in Tamil Eelam, their occupied traditional homeland in Sri Lanka,” said Chen.
“First, the petitioners call upon the House of Commons to initiate proceedings by Canada against Sri Lanka at the International Court of Justice to investigate the Tamil genocide—both as an injured state party on behalf of its citizens of Eelam Tamil heritage, and as a state party exercising obligations erga omnes.”
“Second, the petitioners call for an internationally administered referendum among the people in the occupied homeland and in the diaspora on the creation of an independent and sovereign state of Tamil Eelam.”
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