Eelam lobby urges Canada’s Office of Independent Police Review Director to probe Peel Police Chief’s Sri Lanka visit

An organisation calling itself the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) has called for an investigation by Canada’s Office of Independent Police Review Director into the recent visit to Sri Lanka by Nishan Duraiappah, the Ontario’s Peel Regional Police Chief who had a meetings with Tiran Alles, Public Security Minister of Sri Lanka and the country’s acting police Chief Deshabandu Tennakoon, who, only one week prior to Chief Duraiappah’s visit, was convicted of torture by Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court.

The TGTE urged the Peel Police Office to publicly reprimand Chief Duraiappah for wearing official Canadian police garb during what the Office claims were non-official meetings. Without such a public statement, Sri Lanka will continue to use the power of the many images it captured of Chief Nishan Duraiappah in his official Canadian police uniform alongside Sri Lankan officials and forces for the States propaganda purposes, the group alleged.

TGTE also found fault with Chief Duraiappah for accepting a guard of honour by Sri Lanka’s police force, which is implicated in committing the crime of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Tamils during the final stages of the armed conflict and thereafter, even still today, reprehensible and incompatible with the values of human rights, democracy and the rule of law, that Canada, its police force, and the Canadian police uniform supposedly stand for.