Ali Sabry, the foreign minister of Sri Lanka, has categorically denied and denounced the genocide allegations made by Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, about Sri Lanka’s three-decade civil conflict.
When he called Canadian High Commissioner Eric Walsh to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday, May 19, Sabry made this point clear.
This ‘politically driven’ comment, according to Minister Sabry, was made for Canadian domestic political consumption and was controversial.
Sabry wrote to the Canadian envoy, “Sri Lanka vehemently rejects this unfounded allegation of ‘genocide’ relating to the country’s nearly three-decade-long terrorist conflict perpetuated by the LTTE.”
The ‘inaccurate and inflammatory’ claims made in the statement, he noted, will cause Sri Lankans to become further divided at this specific time when the government is attempting to achieve economic stability, peace, and reconciliation for everybody.
He stressed that a tiny group of politically motivated anti-Sri Lankan individuals in the Diaspora with a separatist objective are responsible for the arbitrary and incorrect usage of the term “genocide” against Sri Lanka.
As a long-standing bilateral partner, Sri Lanka’s government has urged Canada’s government to cooperate and support a friendly relationship between the two nations while also actively involving Canadians of Sri Lankan descent to advance our shared goals of inclusive development and long-term peace.
