Spreading False Narrative Of Genocide Over 2009 Incident: Sri Lanka On Canada
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Sri Lanka Foreign Secretary Wijewardane requested Canada to engage with Sri Lanka in a "constructive manner" and facilitate dialogue and reconciliation.
The Sri Lankan government has once again slammed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for engaging in vote bank politics by consistently spreading "false narrative" about the ethnic conflict against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
In a meeting with the Canadian Deputy Minister for International Development Christopher MacLennan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs earlier this week, Lankan Foreign Secretary Aruni Wijewardane expressed the island nation's deep concerns over the "high-level pronouncements" made in Canada "representing a false narrative of genocide" in connection with the conflict that took place in the country for over three decades till 2009.
Foreign Secretary Wijewardane requested Canada to engage with Sri Lanka in a "constructive manner" and facilitate dialogue and reconciliation.
