A huge Tamil protest shut down Toronto last night, including the Gardiner Expressway. Tamils are demanding the Canadian government do something to stop the violence in Sri Lanka, which has truly been horrible - more than 300 civilians were killed and thousands more were injured in just the past few days, most of them Tamils.Protest tactics like this aren't helping their cause in public opinion, that's for sure. Also, if Canada did act to sanction Sri Lanka would that stop the violence? I don't think so. The Sri Lanka war is coming to a brutal end and perhaps the thing that would save the most lives at this point is for the Tamil Tigers to surrender. At this point they can't win the war anyway. Wouldn't that force the Sri Lankan government to declare a ceasefire and deal with the Tamils as people, instead of indiscriminately shelling civilian areas?
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