Tamil Youth Organization Canada (TYO-Canada) successfully held its “I Remember Black July campaign this past Wednesday in the downtown core. Over 1000 DVDs of “Sri-Lanka’s Killing Fields” were handed out to Torontonians during this initiative which aimed at raising awareness of the general public of the Tamil genocide.
“Sri-Lanka’s Killing Fields” is a documentary created by Britain’s Channel 4 News which exposes the harsh reality endured by the Tamils during the final stages of the conflict in May 2009. It features authenticated evidence of Sri-Lankan army personnel engaging in grotesque war crimes and crimes against humanity. Much of this evidence collected by Channel 4 News came from the Sri-Lankan army personnel themselves, who recorded their victims and torture on their mobile phones and kept it as a “trophies of war”.
This initiative taken by TYO-Canada is commendable. These youths saw the importance of awareness, and initiated a campaign that successfully worked towards educating Torontonians about the plight of the Tamil people.
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