Evidence points out to Executions,Point-blank shootings,Rape, torture and forcible eviction of Tamils from their property.
UN Secretary General is reported to have been informed of the killings of 20,000 people before his visit to Si Lanka and he has kept quiet (on this subject)
.Worse is the Chief of Staff Vijay Nambiar( An Indian)to Gen.Ban is said to be close to Rajapakshe and UN Chief was manipulated willingly or otherwise by him and his his Brother Sathish, a paid consultant to Sri Lankan Army and reportedly close to Gen. Sarath Fonseka.
Sri Lanka is adopting all methods to stone wall the UN report by calling the Report as inadequate and their Foreign Secretary G L Peiris, Sri Lanka External Affairs Minster resisting publication of the report saying the release of the full report would actually damage the UN system.
Net Result..
As the world waited on Thursday 21, April to finally see the official version of the UN Panel’s report in full, what it got was a late briefing from Ban’s, Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq telling the media that the Sri Lankan government “is being given another chance to respond.” This was contrary to Haq’s position just the previous day that the Rajapaksa regime’s lack of response, “doesn’t need to tie our hands down regarding when we are going to put out this report. As we have said repeatedly, we’ll put it out this week.”
India by not taking the initiative to publicize the report and bring Rajapakshe to book shall regret.
A leaked United Nations report indicates “credible allegations” of Sri Lanka war crimes. Video first broadcast by Channel 4 News, showing alleged Tamil executions, formed a key part of the evidence.
A leaked version of the long-awaited report by the United Nations Secretary General (UNSG) panel reveals “credible allegations” of war crimes which – if proven – suggest a “grave assault on the entire regime of international law”.
The report estimates that tens of thousands of civilians were killed in the final four months of Sri Lanka‘s civil war in 2009.
It indicates that actions by both the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
[TamilNet, Sunday, 17 April 2011, 16:32 GMT]
Over 100,000 Tamil civilians remain unaccounted for after Sri Lanka’s onslaught in 2009 into the northern Vanni region, Channel 4 reported Saturday. Government census forms obtained by Channel 4 show 430,000 residents in Vanni in mid 2008. However internal UN documents also obtained by Channel 4 show only 290,000 people coming out of the final enclave overrun by the government’s troops and being put into its militarized internment camps. Only 60% of the original residents have returned, a Channel 4 source who recently visited Vanni also said.
http://www.channel4.com/news/un-leak-points-to-crimes-against-humanity-in-sri-lanka-war
http://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-war-crimes-is-srebrenica-moment
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