Tamil groups are praising Ottawa’s sanctions on Sri Lanka officials, while asking Canada to bring that country to international tribunals.
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The pair oversaw the victory of Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhalese population over Tamil groups, which came after widespread bloodshed and massacres. Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Ali Sabry called the move arbitrary and harmful to both relations with Canada and to his country’s reconciliation process. The U.S. has previously sanctioned senior Sri Lanka officials, but Human Rights Watch says Canada is the only country to list the Rajapaksa brothers.
They are Sunil Ratnayake, whom a court sentenced to death for his role in a 2020 massacre of Tamils but who was later pardoned, and navy commander Chandana Prasad Hettiarachchi, who has been accused of abducting civilians who were later killed.
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