Halt Genocide Tour

CanadianHART – Halt Genocide Bus Tour

Canadian Humanitarian Appeal for Relief of Tamils (CanadianHart) is currently to take to the road on a ten city cross Ontario Halt Genocide Tour. This Tour will be aimed at meeting politicians, media outlets, and more importantly conduct teach-ins at various locations to create awareness about the genocide currently taking place and to encourage immediate action to save the Tamils under a siege in Sri Lanka.

Our tour will start on February 9, 2009 and carry on to the end of the month.

This Campaign is also aimed at creating a vibrant grass roots structure organized across Canada to engage in Human rights and Humanitarian Advocacy on behalf of Tamils. We hope to establish contacts across the province, so they can carry on the work of CanadianHART in different cities across the province. We look to expand this across Canada in the next couple of months. Our goal is to create general awareness amongst the members of the public. We will be highlighting the humanitarian and human rights crisis in Sri Lanka to the world and more specifically to the Canadian Society, engage them actively through various campaigns and influence policy changes with regards to Sri Lanka to bring about Peace with Justice for Tamils in Sri Lanka.

Currently in Sri Lanka

On Jan 26th, over 400 Tamils were killed by indiscriminate attacks by the Sri Lankan Army in Sri Lankan Government declared Safe Zones.

On Feb 2nd, 5000 shells and a multi barrel rocket launcher were fired into safe zones, hitting hospitals and killing many. Many civilians wounded are forced to stay in bunkers.

The International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), in a statement issued from Colombo Sunday expressed shock at the shelling of Puthukkudiyiruppu Hospital a second time in a week, and said "wounded and sick people, medical personnel and medical facilities are all protected by international humanitarian law. Under no circumstance may they be directly attacked," pointing an accusing finger at the Government of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lanka Army (SLA). Tamilnet, Feb 2.

CanadianHART aims to Highlight the humanitarian and human rights crisis in Sri Lanka to the World and specifically to all levels of Canadian society, engage them actively through various campaigns and influence policy changes with regards to Sri Lanka to bring about Peace with Justice for Tamils in Sri Lanka.

Government of Sri Lanka has killed more than 100,000 Tamils and through its indiscriminate aerial and artillery attack has forced the internal displacement of more than 500,000 Tamils. It has systematically used pogroms and massacres in violation of all of its International human rights commitment. Sri Lanka’s use of rape, targeted assassination of Tamil community leaders, Members of Parliament, human rights activists and humanitarian workers, and media personnel has been condemned widely. In addition to the 500,000 Tamils who are internally displaced, more than 1,500,000 Tamils have also fled Sri Lanka as refugees.

Recently Sri Lanka was Listed among the top eight "red alert" countries by independent panels of experts organized by the New York based Genocide Prevention Project and voted off the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2008.

However these measures have not stopped Sri Lanka’s genocidal war on Tamils. This campaign by CanadianHART is aimed at creating a massive movement to ensure the World community exerts immediate pressure on the Government of Sri Lanka to immediately halt the genocide.

We call on you to join us immediately to end this genocidal war

If you have any questions please feel free to contact,
CanadianHART at 416 838 9637 or email at info@canadianhart.org