Towards the end of 2008, I joined thousands in Toronto to protest Israel’s attack on Gaza. At York University, where I was a student, we mobilised the campus to defend Palestinian rights.
A few months later, bombs were falling on my own people ― in the predominantly Tamil Vanni region of northern Sri Lanka. And once again, we hit Toronto’s streets in protest.
I realised then that even though our homelands are oceans apart, Palestinians and Tamils have much in common.
Through the “war on terror”, the Israeli and Sri Lankan armies have waged war on civilian populations.