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<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT><BR></DIV><U><FONT color=blue size=4
face="Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">PLEASE
CIRCULATE WIDELY AND ATTEND THE EVENT ON WEDNESDAY JUNE 22</SPAN></FONT></U><BR>
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face="Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold'; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 24pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></SPAN></FONT></B> </P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT color=red size=6
face="Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold'; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 24pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">TWO
YEARS AFTER MAY 18, 2009</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT color=red size=5
face="Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold'; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The
Tamil people in Sri Lanka are STILL</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT color=red size=7
face="Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold'; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 36pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">IN
SEARCH OF JUSTICE</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">During the last election
campaign Harper’s Conservative ads portrayed images of the M.V. Sun Sea, which
carried 492 Sri Lankan Tamil women, men and children fleeing the country because
of outright or well founded fear of persecution from the on-going human rights
abuses in the aftermath of the war including abduction, involuntary
disappearances, and the increasing militarization of Sri Lanka’s North and East.
It was said that Stephan Harper had <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">“taken
action to protect our borders from human
smuggling”.</SPAN></I></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">In early 2009 Toronto
witnessed massive rallies, demonstrations, human chains, and the blockade at the
Gardiner Expressway organized by young Tamil activists to bring the attention of
the international community to the last phase of the war where Tamils lost tens
of thousands of family members and friends in Sri Lanka. The April 2011
report of the UN panel of experts says <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">“the
conduct of the war represented a grave assault on the entire regime of
international law designed to protect individual dignity during both war and
peace”.</SPAN></I> The purpose of this public forum is to unpack the UN
report, and explore ways of pressing the demand for an independent inquiry on
war crimes and crimes against humanity, and also build awareness of the current
state of human rights in Sri Lanka.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></SPAN></FONT></B> </P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></SPAN></FONT></B> </P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT color=green size=6
face="Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold'; COLOR: green; FONT-SIZE: 28pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">A
PUBLIC FORUM</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT color=green size=5
face="Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold'; COLOR: green; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">WEDNESDAY
JUNE 22 – 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT color=green size=5
face="Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold'; COLOR: green; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">OISE</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT
color=green size=5 face="Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold'; COLOR: green; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">
– Room 2214</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT color=green size=5
face="Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold'; COLOR: green; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">252
Bloor Street West</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT color=green size=5
face="Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Akzidenz Grotesk BE Bold'; COLOR: green; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">
– (St. George Subway</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT color=green size=5><SPAN
style="COLOR: green; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">)</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><FONT size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT size=5 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Speakers:</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT size=4 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Prof. Cheran Rudhramoorthy
</SPAN></FONT></B>(University of Windsor)<B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT size=4 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">John</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT
size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> Argue –
</SPAN></FONT></B>Amnesty International Canada<B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT size=4 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Leanne Wilkins –
</SPAN></FONT></B>United Food and Commercial Workers Union</P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT size=4 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Rohitha Bashana Abeywardane –
</SPAN></FONT></B>Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (SKYPE presentation
from Europe)</P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT size=4 face=Calibri><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Solidarity Messages: Canadian
Federation of Students </SPAN></FONT></B><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">and<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> No One Is
Illegal</SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></SPAN></FONT></B> </P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Organized
by</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT size=4 face="Arial Narrow"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">:
</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">OPIRG
Toronto, Urban Alliance on Race Relations, Canadian Forum for Justice and Peace
in Sri Lanka, Canadian Tamil Congress, Centre for War Victims and Human Rights,
National Council of Canadian Tamils, Tamil Resource Centre, Tamil Workers
Alliance, Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam.</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></SPAN></FONT></B> </P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><FONT size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Endorsed
by</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT size=1 face="Arial Narrow"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">:
</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">CUPE
Ontario International Solidarity Committee, United Steelworkers Toronto Area
Council, Canadian Arab Federation, ILPS Canada, No One Is Illegal, Philippine
Solidarity Group, Socialist Project.</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">For further information:
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">John</SPAN></FONT><FONT
size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Argue: <A
href="mailto:jbargue@direct.ca">jbargue@direct.ca</A> , Jim Davis: <A
href="mailto:jdavis@kairoscanada.org">jdavis@kairoscanada.org</A> , Aparna
Sundar: <A
href="mailto:asundar@ryerson.ca">asundar@ryerson.ca</A></SPAN></FONT></P>
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