Now that the NE Provincial Elections are over, there seems to be a new -found optimism in Rajapakshe circles that the International Community would go soft on him for Genocide accusations,
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The winning Tamil party combination is more interested in running the local Government than bringing Rakapakshe to book.
I am posting some more gruesome images of the Tamils killed by Sri Lankan Army lest people forget the Genocide.
Killers must never go unpunished.
Genocide Fact sheet.(rough estimate)
- More than 135, 000 Tamil men, women and children has been killed or went missing.
- More than 35, 000 Tamil were killed in 2009 alone.
- 1.1 Million Tamils flee Sri Lanka
- Estimated 600, 000 Tamil internal refugees
- More than 20, 000 orphaned children
- More than 35, 000 Tamil widows
- Thousands of Tamil families (including children) are kept behind barb wire fenced internment camps by the Sri Lankan govenment, for several months in aftermath of war.
- Half a million Tamils kept under military rule in Jaffna peninsula (Northern Sri Lanka) that had been described as an “open prison”.
- Thousands in custody – detention without trial, other widespread abuses
- Economic embargo imposed on traditional Tamil areas for more than 2 decades
- Supply of food, medicine, fuel, electricity and other essential items controlled by the Military
- Forced Starvation
- Usage of banned weapons – Cluster bombs, White phosporous. Usage of heavy weapons, artillery on densely populated civilian areas. Reported usage of chemical weapons.
- Mass Graves and systematic violations of fundamental human rights remain uninvestigated
- No International Media allowed into conflict areas
- State sponsored pogroms
- Systematic destruction of Infrastructure
- Indiscriminate and wanton air attacks on traditional Tamil areas for more than 2 decades.
- Hundreds of thousands of livelihoods and schools, hospitals, libraries, temples, churches, houses, villages destroyed.
- Source:
- http://dustent.blogspot.in/2013/03/genocide-infants-in-sri-lanka.html
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