At last the Killer of Tamils,Mahinda Rajapakshe is being served summons to appear before a US Court for his genocide of Tamils.
US Court Notice.
The complaint is available in PDF format in the Link provided.
It took an US court to take this step .
The Tamil Nadu Politicians who garner votes on the blood of SriLankan Tamils could and should have filed a case in India on behalf of the refugee/s living in India.
They should have filed it in UNHURT as well .
Well, they are bothered about perorations and stage-managed weeping to garner sympathy votes,Vaiko included.
What is surprising is the near silence of Indian Media on this news!
Rajapakshe is reported to be contemplating to defy court orders.
My suggestion to SriLankans who are living abroad is to file cases in individual capacity, citing cases of kin lost,missing/dead in SriLanka, in the country where they live in.
File cases in Scandinabian Countries,UK,France,Germany and of course US.
File as many as possible.
The heat on Rajapakse brothers will be immense.
Include Rajapakshe’s brothers and Fonseka as well.
The groundswell of Public Opinion in the world against Rjapakshe is mounting.
This is the correct moment to act against these maniacal killers.
For the atrocities of these butchers please read my blogs filed under Srilankan Tamils/Sri lanka.
As per order issued on the 13th day of October 2011, by the United States District Judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the District Court of District of Columbia, with respect to Civil Action No. 11-00235 (CKK) Dr. Kasippillai Manoharan, et al. v. Percy Mahendra Rajapakse, the Court Summons and the Complaint are published here in full. The 29-page complaint is published as a single PDF document, and as 29 separate jpg images, one for each page.
In a precedent setting order issued by the District Court of District of Columbia Thursday on the case against Sri Lanka’s President Rajapakse filed by three Tamil plaintiffs, Judge Kotelly authorized service by “posting the full summons and complaint on the main page of the TamilNet website,” and by publication in two Sri Lankan newspapers. Legal sources in Washington said that Rajapakse being haled into a US court to answer charges of complicity in the extra-judicial killings of plaintiffs relatives is imminent..
Judge Kotelly in her short opinion leading to the order said, ‘[h]aving evaded service in person and refusing service under the international agreement [Hague Convention] established for the purpose of service of process on international defendants, “it is not reasonably possible or practicable to give more adequate warning” to Defendant [Rajapakse] than service by publication. http://www.tamilnet.com/img/publish/2011/10/PublicationOrder10132011.pdf
“The District Court’s order authorizing service of the Torture Victims Protection Act Complaint and Summons on Sri Lanka’s President Rajapaksa via newspaper publication and posting on TamilNet marks a legal milestone in achieving accountability for the gruesome extra-judicial killings of innocent civilians ordered or condoned by the highest officials of the Sri Lankan government during the ethnic civil war.
“After service is effectuated, President Rajapaksa will be compelled to respond to the Complaint’s accusations in a court of law uncompromised by partisan politics. It can be expected that President Rajapaksa will retain an army of luxury-priced lawyers to defend him, who will attempt to throw technical legal obstacles to thwart justice. “We urgently need all available financial and moral support to achieve victory not only for the three named Plaintiffs, but for all the victims of President Rajapaksa’s atrocities. A judgment in our favor in this case would set a precedent that would underwrite copy-cat TVPA suits by other victims of Rajapaksa endorsed or sponsored extra-judicial killings or torture.”
