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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sugan123" data-source="post: 2373333" data-attributes="member: 111161">Tamils gather for rally over government discriminationNews ServicesPublished: Monday, July 07, 2008TORONTO -- Waving the flag of the Tamil Tigers guerrillas, thousands of Canadian Tamils gathered this weekend for their first rally since the federal government shocked the community by outlawing a Toronto-based Tamil non-profit group under the Anti-Terrorism Act. A statement issued by the event's organizers condemned the government for the decision to ban the World Tamil Movement, and called on Canada to recognize guerrilla-held areas of northern Sri Lanka as an independent state. Brian Senewiratne, a Sri Lankan-born doctor from Australia who was the keynote speaker, showed video clips of helicopter gunships firing rockets, and called the Sri Lankan government a "murderous, barbaric regime" that was at war "against the Tamil people."<a href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=338986ba-5829-4899-8371-ab644ca5ba9c&k=1211" target="_blank">http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=338986ba-5829-4899-8371-ab644ca5ba9c&k=1211</a></blockquote>

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