Help the Zingars

Zinghalese speaking peoples face severe discrimination in Canada. These people andtheir ancient language evolved in Asia, specifically the home of the Zingars or the peoples of the Five and half tails. Their story is not that unusual.

In the last century, 1999, covert armies expelled them from a genocidal ethnic cleansing of their homeland near the city of Balinakkutuur in central Asia. The majority of the population became international refugees fleeing for their lives in a cruel world. All of them applied for refugee status in Canada.

The twenty four surviving Zingars were accepted and moved to the Canadian refugee camp most people call Surrey, British Columbia. Instantly clashed the cultures. This cultural difference erupted in uncalled for repression from the Canadian government. The instrument of repression came the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Lawyers clashed in the courts over the traditional costume of the Zingars.

Help the Zingars keep their ceremonial dress and their cultural and religious rights. The legal arguments were long and involved but basically boiled down to this. Why should the Sikhs be allowed to keep their ceremonial daggers called Kirpans, in school? Zingars were not allowed the same rights in public or private schools. The same law should also apply equally to the Zingar children at school, they should be allowed to keep their ceremonial AK-47's.