At the heart of Ottawa gathered 30 thousand supporters of the Tamil Tigers. "

In front of the Government of Canada in Ottawa brought together more than 30 thousand Tamils need to have an impact on the Sri Lankan authorities to carry out military operations against Tamil Tigers. AFP reported on 21 April.
  The protests are the Tamils in Toronto for about two weeks, but still did they were not numerous.
The Government of Canada has refused to meet with the demonstrators on the grounds that in Canada since April 2006, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam declared a terrorist organization and is prohibited.
Recall April 20, similar rallies were held in London, Paris, the French action over riots and the arrest of a large group of participants.
In Canada, home to Tamil Diaspora numbering over 300 thousand people, most of them - immigrants from Sri Lanka, fled their homeland in the 1980's, as well as their children. Then they went to Sri Lanka after the large-scale massacres of 1983 as a result of worsening relations between the Sinhalese and Tamil ethnic minority, living in the island nation. Canadian diaspora is regarded as one of the most numerous and politically active Tamil diaspora in the world. The large Tamil diaspora is also in Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Britain, Italy and the United States and a number of other countries.
In Sri Lanka, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 1973, leads an armed struggle for education on the island an independent Tamil state. In late 2008 - early 2009 the army of Sri Lanka conducted a military operation against the Tamil Tigers, with the result that the rebels have lost nearly all of them under the control of the territory, and suffered considerable losses.