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August 22, 2005
Former Ontario Premier Remembers Lakshman Kadirgamar
In an August 16, 2005 article in the Globe and Mail of Canada headlined "I Remember," former Ontario Premier Robert Keith "Bob Rae" said of Sri Lankan foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, who was assassinated on August 12, 2005:He talked often of his possible assassination. "I could be shot dead in my swimming pool," he once said. A leading Tamil lawyer and an Oxford graduate, he knew that he was a marked man, and that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) never hesitated to call him a traitor to their cause.
Mr. Rae said Mr. Kadirgamar "wanted peace, but not at any cost. He could not accept that the LTTE had a lock on representing the Tamil community," Mr. Rae wrote. "He felt that many Western governments were simply too slow to understand the real goals and objectives of the LTTE. He was prepared to accept a federal Sri Lanka, but not, as he put it, "a fascist, racist state in the heart of our country."
Posted by Munir Umrani at August 22, 2005 02:36 AM
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