Towards the end of 2008, I joined thousands in Toronto to protest Israel鈥檚 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 鈥 in the predominantly Tamil Vanni region of northern Sri Lanka. And once again, we hit Toronto鈥檚 streets in protest.
I realised then that even though our homelands are oceans apart, Palestinians and Tamils have much in common.
Through the 鈥渨ar on terror鈥, the Israeli and Sri Lankan armies have waged war on civilian populations.