The Hon. Sivagnanam Shritharan
Raised a point of order objecting to the Deputy Minister’s remarks and asserting that Tamils in Sri Lanka had suffered what he described as a massive genocide. He referred to documentation by organizations in Canada and sought time to place this position on record amid interruptions.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Sir, I rise to a point of order.
¶ 02 Please give me a minute!
¶ 03 Honourable Speaker, the Hon. Deputy Minister’s remarks are about this country. In this country, what happened was a massive genocide. In particular, what happened to our Tamil brothers and sisters has been documented by organizations in Canada. Therefore, it is very important—[Interruption]
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