{"id":20632,"date":"2013-04-25T18:31:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T22:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=20632"},"modified":"2013-04-25T18:31:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T22:31:24","slug":"canadas-new-democratic-party-launches-national-campaign-urging-boycott-of-commonwealth-meeting-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=20632","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s New Democratic Party Launches National Campaign Urging Boycott of Commonwealth Meeting in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OTTAWA \u2013 <\/strong>Official Opposition New Democrats Paul Dewar (Ottawa Centre) and Rathika Sitsabaiesan (Scarborough\u2014Rouge River) have launched a national campaign to pressure the Conservatives to fully boycott the Commonwealth meetings in Sri Lanka unless an independent and international investigation into alleged war crimes are accepted by the government of that country. <\/p>\n<p> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The campaign was launched a day after Stephen Harper left the door open to government participation in the Sri Lanka meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada must take a principled position against Sri Lanka\u2019s lack of accountability for alleged war crimes,\u201d said Opposition Foreign Affairs critic Paul Dewar. \u201cI invite all Canadians to join our campaign and pressure the Conservatives to fully boycott the upcoming Commonwealth meetings hosted by Sri Lanka, unless that government allows an independent investigation into allegations of war crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canadians can add their voice to the NDP\u2019s campaign for human rights and accountability in Sri Lanka by signing the petition at p.ndp.ca\/srilanka and sharing it with their friends and family. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government must give us a clear commitment that Canada will not be a part of these meetings if Sri Lanka does not agree to an independent and international investigation,\u201d said NDP MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan. \u201cI urge every Canadian to sign our petition, share it with their friends and family and build a movement to ensure that human rights and accountability are top priorities for the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton20632\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D20632&amp;text=Canada%26%238217%3Bs%20New%20Democratic%20Party%20Launches%20National%20Campaign%20Urging%20Boycott%20of%20Commonwealth%20Meeting%20in%20Sri%20Lanka&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2013 Official Opposition New Democrats Paul Dewar (Ottawa Centre) and Rathika Sitsabaiesan (Scarborough\u2014Rouge River) have launched a national campaign to pressure the Conservatives to fully boycott the Commonwealth meetings in Sri Lanka unless an independent and international investigation into alleged war crimes are accepted by the government of that country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20633,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20632\/revisions\/20633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}