Office of the Mayor                     

 

For Immediate Release

July 23^rd, 2013

 

Statement on Black July

“On behalf of the people of Brampton, I join with our City’s Tamil community to mourn the violence committed against Sri Lankan Tamil families during the atrocities of Black July in 1983. This year marks the 30^th anniversary of when innocent lives were lost, businesses were shut down and property was destroyed.

“Since then, thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils have settled in communities across Canada, including Brampton, to embrace our unwavering values of peace, order and good government, among so many other enshrined Canadian rights.

“Today Brampton has an active, engaged, and vibrant Tamil community. And it is here in our City that people of all backgrounds are free to raise a family, earn a good education, secure a job, start a business and worship freely.”

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