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Non-profit Tamil group added to terrorism list

nationalpost.com — A Toronto-based non-profit organization has been outlawed by Cabinet under the Anti-Terrorism Act, in what may signal an aggressive new approach to combating terrorist financing in Canada. The decision to add the World Tamil Movement to Canada's list of outlawed terrorist groups marks the first time Ottawa has used the anti-terrorism law to . . .

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  • Mirpurkhas, on 06/16/2008, -0/+1Not all terrorist are Muslim.
  • inactive, on 06/16/2008, -3/+4There's a backstory to this,
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_july
    Black July is the commonly used name for the pogroms starting in Sri Lanka on July 23, 1983. It is estimated that 1,000[1] Tamil people were killed, tens of thousands of houses were destroyed, and a wave of Sri Lankan Tamils left for other countries. The riots occurred following a deadly ambush by a Tamil militant organization known as Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam which killed 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers.

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