Extracts from a resolution passed unanimously by the annual general meeting of the York Federation of Students, the largest student union in Canada, representing 50,000 students:
“Be It Further Resolved that the York Federation of Students
“shall endorse the international call to immediately establish an independent, international, and impartial mechanism to ensure truth, accountability and justice in Sri Lanka; and
“encourages its members to pressure the Federal Government to unequivocally call for an international war crimes inquiry to establish accountability and true reconciliation; and
“encourages its members to stand in solidarity with the Tamil nation in their global struggle for self-determination and freedom; and
“calls for an immediate end to the colonialism and genocide of the Tamil nation and an end to the occupation of the Tamil homeland by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and its allied paramilitary groups.”
See full statement and TamilNet’s report here