PhotoTO: The Tamil Chain

Adulatory pictures of a terrorist leader, tshirts and flags adorned with bullets, crossed AK-47s, and a growling tiger. Definitely a peace rally.

They all were providing material support to a terrorist organization and everyone there should be in jail. Thankfully the police are investigating, though of course no charges will be pursued.

What's interesting is that I have seen almost no mention in the media
coverage of this event that LTTE is listed as a terrorist group in no
less than 32 countries... The CBC had a great interview this afternoon that clearly explained the kind of organization that the Tamil Tigers are, but that's about all I've seen or heard.

And it's not like LTTE are "sort of" terrorists, or just the victims of mislabelling - they hold the record (by far) for greatest number of suidcide bombings, and indeed invented the suicide bomber vest. Al Qaeda or Hamas have nothing on LTTE...

It's absolutely flabbergasting that anyone could have any sympathy for
LTTE - or that a proscribed terrorist organization in Canada is
allowed to hold a rally... Fundraising for LTTE in Canada is illegal -
as should be public assembly in their favour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam#Human_rights_violations

It seems that people don’t have much knowledge of the conflict that is happening in Sri Lanka to understand the Toronto Tamils emotions and aspiration. The flag is not a LTTE flag, it is the national flag of Tamil Eelam and the flag that Tamil people have endorsed as it fully represents them.

Some people might consider LTTE as a terrorist organization, for the Tamil people they are their saviours from total annihilation by the racist Sri Lankan state and an organization that is fighting for their political aspiration. The Tamils first lost their sovereignty to the Portuguese, Dutch then the British whom eventually handed down that to the racist Sinhalese dominated Ceylon (which was later renamed to Sri Lanka). When the racist Sinhalese dominated Sri Lankan state used violence to kill, rape women, uprooted Tamil people for colonization, torture the Tamils; the Tamils just protested it peacefully which went on for more then 30+ years since independence. Then the Tamil leaders decided to restore the sovereignty of the Tamil people and created the Vadukkodai resolution in 1976. They put forward that resolution as their election platform in 1977 and the Tamil people elected them with an overwhelming vote. The Sri Lankan state rejected it, used violence, uprooted the Tamil people from their lands in a speedy process of colonization, raped women in mass scale, tortured the youths, killed so many of the Tamil people. The Tamil youths saw no other option then to pick up arms to protect their people which they did, but the western governments (including China, Israel, Iran, Pakistan) supplied and keeps supplying the Sri Lankan state with weapons to carry out an open genocidal war in return for economic and geo-political promise by the Sri Lankan state. The Tamil Tigers, with fewer weapons and in desperation to protect its people have adopted suicide bombing to bring the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and the Sri Lankan economy to its knees.

So labelling a group as just terrorist without understanding the root cause is not helpful and only creates more problems.