Some time back I posted an article quoting a Lankan News Paper that former President of Lanka, Rajapaksha visited Tirupati,in india, not to worship, but to sell illegally obtained God(350Kg)
There is news that his residence was raided by the authorities.
Rajapaksha, Former President,Sri Lanka.
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Embattled former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s country home in the southern province has been raided by police who were looking for a luxury sports car but the search drew a blank.
“They raided our house in Tangalle yesterday looking for a Lamborghini car,” said Namal Rajapaksa, the former president’s elder son and a parliamentarian.
Police spokesman Ajith Rohana said the search was done on a court warrant but it drew a blank.
“They have been harassing us by searching not only our own houses but those of our friends. We can’t visit homes of our associates because they get their places searched,” Namal said.
He said the police complaint was based on false information that they were hiding a sea plane and tyres of racing cars.
“All they found was a pedal boat used by pre-school children,” Namal said.
The search of Rajapaksa’s country home comes days after police launched a probe into allegations that his younger brother Gotabhaya ran “death squads” and ordered the murder of a high-profile newspaper editor.
Basil Rajapaksa, the other brother of Rajapaksa and the former economic development minister, has also been accused of being involved in a number of shady deals.
Since Mahinda Rajapaksa’s defeat to Maithripala Sirisena in the January 8 election, the state media have been showing visuals of the Rajapaksa family’s extravagant life styles.
The visuals of air-conditioned toilets with digital video screens fixed at the official Temple Trees residence have been aired on state television.
During the run up to the polls, the then opposition accused Rajapaksa’s sons of owning helicopters, expensive horses from royal stables in the UK and expensive racing cars.
Information on alleged properties of the Rajapaksa family is being regularly given to police since the advent of Sirisena-led new government….( The Hindu dated 20 January 2015)..
But reports from Lanka indicate that Rjapaksha was involved in misappropriating Rs.13,500 Million of Lanka Defense Ministry Fund.
This is in addition to 350 kgs of Gold procured illegally.
“As huge as Rs.1500 million in cash !! had been discovered by accident at Temple trees after Medamulana crook Mahinda Rajapakse (better known now as the modern ‘Alibaba’ ) who ruled the country brutally for 9 years fled Temple Trees on the 9 th morning ,when all his unlawful hasty and frantic attempts to be in power via military conspiracies and treason against the country (to be in power by hook or by crook –borrowing his own words) flopped. In the confusion and desperation when he ran away from Temple Trees on the 9th these monies have been left behind by him.
All these hard cash in valid local and foreign currency were found inside a room under lock and key. A Temple Trees source told Lanka e news ,if this colossal sum of money were left behind when fleeing away in panic , what amount of money would have been taken along by this Medamulana modern Alibaba? It is learnt that the Treasury had been informed of these monies .
At the same time it has come to light the amount of money taken out of the state defense funds and wasted by the Rajapakses at their whims and fancies is also as large as Rs. 135,00 million!! In the defense fund Taprobane branch account which had Rs. 210,00 million , presently there is only Rs. 7500 million . The balance Rs. 13500 million taken by Mahinda Rajapakse as the minister of finance and defense has at his will and pleasure spent them without any records or documents!
According to Ministry of finance informed sources , based on these monumental frauds and misappropriation of state funds in billions and billions of rupees committed by Medamulana Mahinda Rajapakse , even if the most powerful of powerful omni -potentates intervene Mahinda Rajapakse going to jail cannot be averted.
In other words ,even if Mahinda relies on his most powerful den of countless Alibaba thieves he nursed and nurtured so carefully covering all their crookedness and corruption in order to suppress his own mischief , murders and crookedness during his 9 year despotic reign ,he cannot be rescued.”
Running Death Squad -Gotabhaya Rajapakshe.
Sri Lankan authorities are investigating a claim that the toppled president’s younger brother ran a “death squad” and ordered a high-profile newspaper editor’s assassination, a police spokesman said.
Former defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa ordered the hit on Lasantha Wickrematunga in January 2009, ex-public relations minister Mervyn Silva alleged in a formal complaint lodged with police on Saturday, the spokesman said.
Wickrematunga was fatally shot in 2009, just days before he was due to testify in a defamation case Rajapaksa had filed against his paper, which had been highly critical of the then-ruling family.
“We have received a complaint that Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was responsible for abductions, assaults and murder,” police spokesman Ajith Rohana told AFP news agency on Sunday.
“Three murders have been mentioned and one is that of Lasantha Wickrematunga. He (Rajapaksa) is accused of running a death squad.” Rohanna added.
Rajapaksa could not be contacted for comment.
Wickrematunga and his Sunday Leader newspaper were vocal critics of Rajapaksa’s administration, and had accused Gotabhaya of corruption over the purchase of second-hand aircraft and arms for the military…
Now Rajapakshe of Sri Lanka has been invited to speak in the UN Assembly.
Human Rights Commission of the UN has begun an enquiry into the genocide of Tamils in Lanka.
Sri Lankan Ministers have declared in Public that they will not let the enquiry be conducted in Sri Lanka and Navi Pillay retorted that it is not necessary to go to Lanka to confirm the killings of Tamils and that there is enough evidence to confirm Lanka’s guilt.
In the meanwhile reports say that the solution to the Tamil problem can be found only within the United Lanka.
Quite laudable.
But……?
Killed and disfigured.Heaps of BodiesLanka Air force kills TamilsMaimed Tamils.The photo shows what it appears to show… an unexploded SLA rocket has pierced this Tamil woman’s lower body.
Transcript from Channel 4 No Fire Zone.
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Statements of Sri Lanka soldiers
“Motherfuckin Tiger wankers!”
(inaudible)
“Load the ammo” “Show your face”
“Hey… pose with the bodies”
–then while showing bodies of what appear to be dead Tamil Tiger child soldiers—
“Hey look up” (Soldier looks at camera and makes grunting sound)
—then during the loading of female bodies–
“Bring that body… Another one”
“eh?”
“She is moaning now”
“Moaning in your head?”
“Still moaning?”
“Bring that one”
“This one has the best figure”
“Eh?”
“This one has the best figure”
—We have more footage, taken elsewhere, which suggests systematic murder, abuse and sexual violence—
“She seems like someone who’s newly joined”
“She looks like someone’s clerk”
“Look how many pencils and pens she’s got”
“I really want to cut her tits off”
“…if no one was around””
“I got messages not to shoot those who are carrying white flags.
Tamils Herded and Shot by Lankan Security Forces.
A war is fought by soldiers.
They do so by putting their lives on the line.
Therefore, the decisions about war should be taken by the soldiers in the battlefront.
Not the people in air-conditioned rooms in Colombo.
Our soldiers have seen in life the kind of destruction carried out by those people before they decided to come carrying a white flag.
Therefore, they carried out their duties.
We destroyed any one connected with the LTTE. That is how we won the war.”
In 2011 General Fonseka was sentenced to three years in prison and fined Rs.5000 by a court for “propagating a false rumour’ in connection with the original Sunday Leader story.
This is what General Fonseka said on the killing of the LTTE cadres who negotiated a surrender and ane they approached the Lankan Army.
They were carrying the White Flag as a mark of Surrender.
They were shot dead.
In the din of the cry to prosecute the Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakshe and his brother Godbaya Rajapakshe, Defense secretary who gave the
orders to shoot,the Vienna convention has been breached.
Why not ask for a Trail at least on this issue?
It is a different matter altogether that this is a retracted statement of Fonseka
Behind the scene manipulation of Rajapakshe, Gotabaya Rajapakshe follows in a separate Post.
Here is how they were shot shot dead.
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“Last night’s toll of the dead is 3318 and of the injured more than 4000. It was a barrage of artillery, mortar, multi-barrel shelling and cluster bombs, weapons which Sri Lankan government denies using on the civilians in the no fire zone. The cries of woes and agony of the babies and children, the women and the elderly fill the air that was polluted by poisonous and unhealthy gases and pierced the hearts of fathers and mothers, of elders and peasants of old men and women of all walks of life. I am not unaware that this letter would arouse the wrath of the Sri Lankan government which will resort to the revenge by killing me.“
On 10th May 2009, a Catholic priest inside the war zone, Father Francis, wrote to the Pope in Rome describing what he was experiencing.Whi
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At 0630 am on 18 May 2009, approximately twelve people left the bunkers carrying at least two white flags. All wore civilian clothing – the men were in white sarongs and shirts.
Witness 2 was lying on the embankment watching the surrender. He saw that the man carrying the white flag was Nadesan and he also identified Nadesan’s wife and Puidevan in this group.
The first batch to cross were met by two different teams of soldiers, including according to an eyewitness, the 58th Division Commander, Shavendra Silva (currently Sri Lanka’s deputy Permanent Representative at the UN in New York), who went up to greet them.
Several witnesses heard Nadesan’s wife shouting in Sinhala to the soldiers. One witness saw the men in the group had their hands held behind their backs by the soldiers though he couldn’t see if they were tied or handcuffed.
About twenty metres behind the first group, was the second one led by the police chief Illango (also
known as Ramesh) who was also carrying a white flag. Witness 3 was in this group. They passed many dead bodies and could hardly see the lagoon through the dense bushes. Witness 3 saw about 200 troops in the bushes. He then noticed the destroyed building surrounded by about 100 soldiers where Witness 1 was being detained. He confirmed seeing civilians inside this building.
The second group watched the first group approach the security forces. Witness 3 saw about 20-5 soldiers in uniform and armed with AK47 rifles surround the first group. He observed Pulidevan and Nadesan’s group being escorted across the bridge surrounded by soldiers.
Then his group was surrounded by armed soldiers. The police chief Illango spoke to the troops in Sinhala. Their group was surrounded and escorted in the same fashion across the bridge. Witness 3 was separated from the others and taken to a sentry post, interrogated and slapped and then loaded onto a bus and taken to a detention camp for former LTTE cadres…
Eyewitness 2
Witness 2 says about an hour or so after the surrender, he was on a dirt road parallel to the A35 highway and spotted the corpses of Pulidevan and Nadesan lying in a ditch by the roadside with soldiers standing around taking photographs. (see map)
“I instantly recognised the bodies of Pulideevan and Nadesan. I knew as soon as I looked at their bodies that they were dead. Both men were lying on their backs in the ditch…
Eyewitnesses say it was not just the LTTE political wing leaders who were targeted, but at least 102 other administrative, financial, political, humanitarian leaders of the LTTE, in addition to unarmed military wing cadres and non-combatants such as children who also surrendered later the same day. There were also other LTTE figures who surrendered in the days before and after 18 May who have disappeared or been killed in the custody of the Sri Lankan security forces.
It appears to have been part of a cold-blooded plan to wipe out any future Tamil representatives.
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It is late at night, past midnight. Make a mental picture of this. Can you see them coming out with white flags in this dense jungle in pitch darkness? The situation was that some terrorist cadres counter-attacked. Prabhakaran was trying to break out and escape to the lagoon, his son went in another direction. At the same time 10,000 surrendered cadres came down from one side. In this kind of situation in the thick of battle, can you expect a young recruit, barely a month into battle, to recognise a senior LTTE cadre and make a decision as to shoot him selectively or spare him?”
SRI Lanka’s army was yesterday pushing ahead warily in its advance on the Tamil Tiger stronghold of Jaffna city, fearful of rebel ambushes and possible chemical weapon attacks. Aid workers said the army could move into the city within hours if it wanted to after a mass exodus of tens of thousands of rebels and civilians had left it a virtual ghost town. But a suspicious military said yesterday it sensed that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were preparing a trap. “They may have tried to depopulate Jaffna so that they can use chemical weapons when our troops move in,” a senior military officer said. The rebels used chlorine gas to attack troops in 1990 during a failed attempt to overrun an army camp, but caused no harm. The officer said the army was taking the chemical weapon threat seriously and had distributed gas masks to some of the troops. Government forces have been within 8km of Jaffna city for the past few days and yesterday the LTTE said from their London office that battles were raging at the town of Urumpirai, just 3km from Jaffna’s municipal limits. According to the military the army’s new defence lines are about 7km from Jaffna’s municipal limits. Sri Lankan military officials have warned that minefields, booby-traps and ambushes may await them. “We should be able to move in quickly if there is no resistance,” a military official said. “But we’re obviously going to be careful of walking into a trap.” A top-level military source even suggested that moving into Jaffna right now might not be the objective, despite the two-week push towards the city. “There could be changes in strategy,” he said, echoing some diplomats’ view that little would be gained in taking Jaffna when it could prove difficult to hold. Rebel resistance to the army’s two-pronged advance crumbled on Monday after troops captured Neerveli, 10km northeast of Jaffna. The Government yesterday ordered schools across the country closed after saying threats had been issued against children. In Delhi, India, the Tigers’ chief theoretician, Mr Anton Balasingham, said in an interview published yesterday that a guerilla campaign would be maintained if Jaffna fell to government forces. “Even if they take over Jaffna, it will not be a military success,” he said. “The (Sri Lankan) north-east is a vast area and our guerilla movement cannot be crushed in conventional battle. “The Lankan forces can take over the territory, but they cannot hold on. We will strike back,” he told the weekly news magazine Outlook. In Geneva, the World Council of Churches appealed for intervention by a neutral government such as Norway or Australia to relaunch peace efforts. The council’s secretary-general, Mr Konrad Raiser, who has returned from a visit to India where he met Sri Lankan religious leaders, has called on the Colombo Government and Tamil rebels to resume talks broken off earlier this year.
Voice of America reports on Sri Lanka’s disinformation campaign…
November 28, 1995
“The Sri Lankan Government is waging a propaganda war to complement its military offensive. Correspondent Michael Drudge reports from Colombo that truth has become one of the war’s victims. Media observers say Sri Lankan television has begun resorting to disinformation in its reporting on the war against Tamil Tiger guerrillas.
A Government television news broadcast Monday quoted Tamil Tiger Commander saying the military take over of the northern Jaffna peninsula was a serious set back for the rebel movement. In truth Commander Prabhakaran called the loss of Jaffna only a temporary set back.
The Government newscast said Commander Prabhakaran’s reference to peace negotiations was a sign of Tamil Tiger weakness. In reality, he simply rejected any negotiation as long as the army occupies Jaffna.Observers say the television newscast was but the latest instance of government media officials hedging the truth.
The military press office on Saturday issued a statement that the Tamil Tigers had used gas on troops, implying it was a chemical weapons attack. Only later did military sources admit the gas in question had been tear gas.The government continues to ban reporters from the northern war zone. The state information department hands out video and still photographs produced by the Sri Lankan army. Information is provided by fax.The government is also forbidding reporters to visit camps where hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled to escape the fighting.
Sri Lanka media are subject to military censorship. The local cable operator even blacks out stories about Sri Lanka that appear on foreign television channels.”
Weapons of Minimum Destruction
August 19, 2004
The Tamil Tigers’ use of chemicals angered some of their support base.
Rapoport says that terrorist use of chemical and biological weapons is similar to state use – in that it is rare and, in terms of causing mass destruction, not very effective. He cites the work of journalist and author John Parachini, who says that over the past 25 years only four significant attempts by terrorists to use WMD have been recorded. The most effective WMD-attack by a non-state group, from a military perspective, was carried out by the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka in 1990. They used chlorine gas against Sri Lankan soldiers guarding a fort, injuring over 60 soldiers but killing none.
The Tamil Tigers’ use of chemicals angered their support base, when some of the chlorine drifted back into Tamil territory – confirming Rapoport’s view that one problem with using unpredictable and unwieldy chemical and biological weapons over conventional weapons is that the cost can be as great ‘to the attacker as to the attacked’. The Tigers have not used WMD since.
Sri Lanka: LTTE warns against use of “Chemical Weapons”
August 17, 2001
COLOMBO. The LTTE today accused Sri Lanka of purchasing a banned chemical weapon and warned of “dangerous consequences” if it was inducted in the battlefields of northeastern Sri Lanka. The LTTE statement appeared to be referring to the Russian- manufactured RPO-A Shmel rocket launcher without naming it. The Sunday Leader newspaper reported this week that the Government had purchased 1,000 units of the weapon.
The Sri Lankan Army spokesman, Brig. Sanath Karunaratne, confirmed the purchase of the Shmel, but denied it was a chemical weapon or that it was banned.
The RPO-A Shmel is a rocket-propelled incendiary/blast projectile launcher whose warhead contains a “thermobaric” flammable mixture, that is, it simulates high pressure conditions when detonated in enclosed structures and in the open.
The use of this weapon by the Russian Army in Chechnya came in for strong criticism by the human rights groups.
Described as a “bunker buster”, the shoulder-fired weapon uses a fuel-air explosive warhead that is most destructive when detonated inside structures, killing living beings through suffocation and burns, but also causes death and destruction over wide areas.
“We are perturbed over reports that the Sri Lanka Government has purchased new infantry weapon system with chemical warheads… The acquisition of this banned weapon by Sri Lanka marks a new and dangerous escalation of the armed conflict in the island”, the LTTE statement declared.
The decision by the Sri Lankan Government to introduce mass destruction technology into the northeast theatre of the conflict was a reflection of its single-minded determination to continue with the military option and escalate the war against the Tamil people, the LTTE said.
Tamil Tigers ready to attack Sri Lankan forces with toxic weapons
July 12, 2006
COLOMBO: Hidden in the jungles of Vanni, a toxicological laboratory of the Tamil Tigers is manufacturing their ‘special weapon’, as described by Anton Balasingham earlier, to attack the Sri Lankan Government forces located in Jaffna. Prof. Peter Chalk of Queensland University (now attached to Rand Corporation as an expert on terrorism) told an audience in Melbourne that the LTTE is the first known terrorist group to use chemical weapons.
Prof. Chalk, a leading expert on Tamil Tigers strategies, said that the Tigers fired a ‘chemical’ into an army camp in one of its early offensives. Ironically, it backfired because the winds brought most of it back and deposited the chemical on the LTTE side.
Reports leaking out from Vanni reveal that the LTTE has now increased the potency of this “secret weapon” and also improved the method of delivering it to selected targets. The new chemical weapon is designed to stun the victims. If it is targeted on Sri Lankan Army camps with a total of nearly 40,000 troops, it could easily immobilize the forces, according to informed sources in London.
Balasingham has informed groups raising funds in UK that the LTTE is now armed with a “special weapon” to launch its next major assault on Jaffna. As any major offensive against Jaffna is bound to cost the Tigers heavily in manpower their new strategy is to use the “special weapon” that would immobilize the Sri Lankan forces before a counter-offensive could be launched to attack the LTTE. The LTTE objective in using this chemical weapon is to minimize losses to their cadres.
Reports from Vanni claim that the Tamil Tigers have almost completed the production of this “special weapon” in sufficient quantities to launch their next offensive. The production was carried out in a toxicological laboratory housed in two floors underground. It is protected by a three-storied building above-ground. Reports also state that this is the tallest building in the Vanni constructed under the direct supervision of Velupillai Prabhakaran.
The sources further revealed that technicians and engineers were brought from Punjab, India for the construction. Pro-LTTE Sri Lankan chemical experts and engineers who worked in Western countries are said to be the brains behind the building of the lab as well as the toxicological products.
A hedge fund trader from New York who migrated from Vadamarachchy has made generous contribution towards the constructions of the building which would also double as ordnance factory. He is married to a Punjabi.
The LTTE was thrown out of Jaffna by the Sri Lankan Army led by Maj-Gen Janaka Perera in 1995. The Tigers withdrew into the jungles of Vanni and since then they have been plotting and planning to recapture Jaffna without success. Both sides are aware that the next war, when it comes, is going to be costly to both sides. With the international forces ranged against them the LTTE is making a bid to make their attack short and swift by engaging in “chemical warfare.”
Analysts believe that this is a huge gamble, which may backfire on the LTTE. Velupillai Prabhakaran is already on the international list of wanted criminals. A mug shot of his is posted in Interpol list of wanted criminals. India too is facing internal pressures to extradite him for the killing of Rajiv Gandhi.
If he resorts to “chemical warfare” he will seal his fate as a war criminal hunted by the international community which has banned such warfare since World War I. Besides, the international community fighting a global war against terror will consider this new “chemical warfare” as opening new leads for other terrorists to follow. LTTE terror technologies (example: suicide kit tied to the body) have been the models for other terrorists to follow.
Chemical Weapon Story a Concoction: LTTE
July 14, 2006
The LTTE yesterday strongly rejected media reports which suggested it possessed chemical war fare weapons and was even prepared to use it against the government security forces in the event an all out war were to resume once again.
LTTE Batticaloa political leader Daya Mohan told the Daily Mirror he was not authorised to comment on such issues on behalf of the LTTE but insisted the rebels would never go against UN protocols on the use of chemical weapons.
‘We will never go against UN protocols on the use of chemical warfare. The report you mentioned is not factually correct,’ Mr. Mohan said.
The rebel district leader was responding to an Asian Tribune website report which suggested the LTTE had in its possession a new chemical weapon designed to stun the victims and if it was targeted on Army camps with a total of nearly 40,000 troops, it could easily immobilize the forces.
The government meanwhile said it would not rule out the possibility of the LTTE possessing chemical weapons although there was no evidence to substantiate such claims.
‘Taking the history of terrorists it remains a possibility that the Asian Tribune report may be true. As a government we are not ruling it out,’ Defence Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told the Daily Mirror.
He said as a Defence measure the government would ensure it was prepared to face the eventuality of the LTTE resorting to chemical warfare in the future.
The Asian Tribune report quoted a terrorism expert as saying the LTTE had on one occasion made a failed attempt to use a chemical weapon while it added that the LTTE theoretician Anton Balasingham had informed groups raising funds in Britain that the LTTE was now armed with a `special weapon` to launch its next major assault on Jaffna.
Excerpts from “Toxic Warfare,” by Theodore Karasik
Many recent incidents of toxic warfare have involved poisoning with chemicals, sewage, or pesticides. All these substances can be used to interfere with military operations, disrupt the functioning of civilian infrastructure, cause physical harm, and instill fear among the general
1 Episodes of poisoning have a long history in toxic warfare. In 1986, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) poisoned tea with potassium cyanide in an effort to cripple the Sri Lankan tea export industry.2
2See Abraham D. Sofaer, George D. Wilson, and Sidney D. Dell, The New Terror: Facing the Threat of Biological and Chemical Weapons, Stanford, CA: HooverInstitution, 1999, p. 82.
Sri Lanka
During the 1990s, the LTTE used chemical waste to attack industrial facilities on several occasions as a means of creating confusion at strategic points. In November 1995, LTTE forces launched a gas attack on Sri Lankan troops in a bid to lift a siege on the rebel bastion of Jaffna, sparking heavy battles that left 84 dead on both sides. The toxic attack was the first since 1990, when the LTTE fired chlorine gas cylinders into a besieged military camp near Batticaloa on the east coast.19 In 2001, Tamil rebels attacked the Bandaranaike International Airport and military base with mortars. The first wave of attacks, launched at 3:30 a.m., targeted industrial and fuel facilities at the airport to create a fire and smoke diversion, while a second wave of mortars was aimed at both commercial and military aircraft. The resulting damage claimed 12 aircraft, costing millions of dollars, and closed the airport for a day.20
19See Agence France-Presse, November 25, 1995, accessed from FBIS-FTS- 19951125000450.
20See “Tamil Rebels Raid Sri Lankan Airport,” Washington Post, July 25, 2001, p. 14.
LTTE Sea and Land Attacks
The Tamil Sea Tigers (LTTE)35 have used smoke and vapors both to create casualties and to cause deception, sometimes through elaborately staged or sophisticated means. In September 2001, the Tamil Sea Tigers attacked Bandaranaike Airport, destroying half of the Sri Lankan air fleet and causing millions of dollars of damage. Included was an attack on the airport’s fuel depot that was aimed at spreading smoke and vapors.36 The attack was intended to produce—and indeed resulted in—a spectacular mess that destroyed the fuel depot while also causing confusion and eventual military operations. One month later, in October 2001, a suicide squad from the LTTE sea forces attacked the MV Silk Pride at sundown as the ship approached the Haffna peninsula. The oil tanker, carrying 225 tons of low-sulfur diesel, 160 tones of kerosene oil, and 275 tons of auto diesel, caught on fire.37 LTTE fighters later participated in yet another toxic attack in an effort to interrupt Sri Lanka’s economy.38
35The Tamil Sea Tigers is the oceangoing version of the Tamil Tigers.
36See Rohan Gunaratna, “Intelligence Failures Exposed by Tamil Tigers Airport Attack,” Jane’s Intelligence Review, September 2001, pp. 14–17.
37See “Further on Tamil Tigers Attacking Oil Tanker in Sri Lanka,” Agence France-Presse, October 30, 2001, accessed from FBIS-SAP-20011030000111.
38See “Guerrilla Suicide Boat Hits Sri Lankan Oil Tanker,” Reuters, October 30, 2001.
Excerpt for “Die and Let Die: Exploring Links between Suicide Terrorism and Terrorist Use of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons” by Adam Dolnik
LTTE has a history of involvement with chemical agents on several levels. In 1986, the group claimed to have poisoned Sri Lankan Tea with potassium cyanide, but no evidence of contamination was found.62During 1990, the group was suspected of using poison on several occasions, among them an armed assault with knives soaked in a liquid containing cyanide poison,63 and the use of landmines equipped with cyanide capsules.64During the same year, the group did in fact use a chemical weapon, when large amounts of chlorine gas were deliberately disseminated by wind in an assault on a besieged military camp at Kiran.65The number of casualties of this attack is unknown. Evidence suggests that during 1990 the LTTE was facing a great shortage of conventional arms, forcing them to use improvised weapons. Because all allegations of the group’s involvement with CBRN agents fall into this time frame, it appears that the LTTE tried to use chemicals to substitute for limited conventional capability, as opposed to escalating their struggle in terms of the number of casualties.
62. Sri Lanka, Tea Tested After Poison Threats. Facts on File World Digest [CD-ROM], 24 January 1986.
63. “Tamil Rebels Kill 144 in Sri Lanka Raids,” The Toronto Star, 13 August 1990.
64. “Tamil Rebel Camp Smashed by Sri Lankan Security Forces,” Xinhua Overseas New Service, 18 June 1990.
65. Bruce Hoffman, The Debate Over Future Terrorist Use of Chemical Biological, Nuclear and Radiological Weapons (RAND
“If under aged girls are statutorily raped and the sexual act was however with consent, it may be good to have legislation that allows the perpetrator to marry the ‘victim’ with her consent.”
As the rates of Rapes are increasing, especially by the Armed Forces, the Nation is worried.
The reaction of Rajapakshe is given at the top of this post.
What prompted him to say what he said?
This,
Sri Lanka Guardian Reports,
Last November a soldier was arrested for sexually abusing an eight year old girl.
The girl, the daughter of an ASP, was waiting in an anteroom in the CMC while her father was at a discussion about the Commonwealth Summit. The soldier was the bodyguard of a colonel who was at the same discussion. The girl revealed what was done to her by the ‘Army Uncle’ (“using words according to her knowledge”) only after she went home .
Any reasonable person would know why that child did not scream during the abuse, why she remained mute until she was safe at home. Her silence and inaction were functions of terror and ignorance. But if Lanka enacts the proposed Rape Marriage Law, the soldier might be able to argue that he abused the child with her consent. After all, she did not protest, did she? Or tell her father when he came in? And the President himself thinks that children can ‘consent’ to rape: “If under aged girls are statutorily raped and the sexual act was however with consent, it may be good to have legislation that allows the perpetrator to marry the ‘victim’ with her consent.”
A Lankan must be over 18 to vote, to drive, to smoke and to drink. Such limits are imposed globally because until a certain age is reached, a human being lacks the capacity to make mature and informed choices about important matters. Statutory rape provisions too belong in same category. Their main purpose is to prevent adults from exploiting the ignorance, the trust, the inexperience and the terror of children.
President Rajapaksa thinks otherwise. He says children can ‘consent’ to a sexual act. So when a male adult rapes a female child and claims that he did so with her consent and she is too confused or scared or shocked to prove otherwise, he can escape punishment, by promising to marry her when she is 18.
Currently statutory rape laws apply to children under 16. How old does the President think a female-child has to be, in order to ‘consent’ to a ‘sexual act’? Fourteen? Twelve? Younger?
The above-mentioned incident indicates, again, how vulnerable North-Eastern children must be, under de facto military occupation. It also proves that child abuse/rape is a problem for all Lankan parents and children. But what hope is there when the Presidential father thinks that children can ‘consent’ to rape, and that rapists should be allowed to marry their victims?”
The Army has honed its skills in raping,by raping Tamils .
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