Toronto Newspaper

Toronto Newspaper

Toronto Newspaper : Police are investigating corruption in the offices of the Toronto Tamil community newspaper, in which two large windows were smashed late on Saturday night, and woke up in a publisher early on Sunday, an anonymous phone call, describing the vandalism in retaliation for a delegation of Canadian businessmen of Sri Lanka.

“They must have used baseball bats or iron bars,” said Logan Logendralingan, publisher and editor of Uthayan.

“They did not enter into offices. They just break the glass, and said, ‘It’s a message for you’.”

He said he learned of the attack when he responded to a special invitation of the number just after dawn on Sunday.

A man who speaks the language of Tamil and said he was returning to his recent visit to Sri Lanka, Canada and Sri Lanka Business Council, who donated $ 20,000 was awarded to President Mahinda Rajapakse.

Mr. Rajapaksa led last year’s brutal attack on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and the rapid success which led to the re-election in a tight race that former senior officers.

But his methods, including intimidation of journalists and the detention of Tamil civilians in the camps, barbed wire, and led to intense international outcry, much of it driven by the large Tamil population of Toronto.

With the Tigers destroyed and killed their leader, leaving no clear successor, and Tamil political activity is in a state of flux.

At the end of this week and vandalism coincided with a meeting held yesterday in Toronto to discuss a framework for the formation of an interim government in exile Tamils.

The following two fires in the past year in Sri Lanka a Buddhist temple, including one on the Tigers, “today’s heroes” is being investigated in the arson.

Uthayan also been the subject of recent controversy over his political positions, with a full package of papers stolen from the stores that distribute them.

Selladurai Cola, president of Canada, Sri Lanka Business Council, said he and two colleagues this month traveled to the main Tamil city of Jaffna, where he met military and business and church leaders.

Then they went to the capital Colombo, where he gave $ 20,000 to Mr. Rajapska him to put towards an orphanage run by his wife.

Uthayan did not report on this visit, “said Mr. Logendralingan, but it described in different locations in Sri Lanka and others.

The reaction was harshly critical, even before the vandalism.

“We get a lot of negative e-mail messages, so go many of the e-mail messages on the talk about our families and our lives, we have,” said Mr. Selladurai. “We were called traitors.”

Police said there was no clear link to the arson or other harm.

“There’s not much should go on here,” said 43 Division Staff Sergeant Kevin Murrell.

“There was no real threat, just that they were aware of the money went [to Mr. Rajapakse.]

He said in a telephone call, and indicates that the target is the prime suspect of the Sri Lankan community.

Manjula Selvarajah, media coordinator for the Canadian Tamil Congress, condemned what it called this “despicable act”.

She said there were rumors on Twitter as being, “a strike against the moderates,” because Uthayan reputation for balance, but added that she did not accept this interpretation.

“It is not reasonable to Uthayan that have got it, ’she said.

“I feel bad for the staff. And I’m sure she was scared of them.”

She said Mr. Selladurai delegation has every right to go to Sri Lanka, but “we just question whether this is the right approach.”