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  • Sri Lanka Tamils Killing India Involved ? PPT

    India has been reluctant to take on Sri Lanka on the genocide issue.

    Tamils being killed in Sri Lanka.Image from the daily mail.
    Tamil Kills India Involved?

    The reason touted is the geopolitical considerations, implying that China might get a foot hold in Sri Lanka.

    Creation of Tamil Elam might result in Greater Tamil Elam facilitating the secession of Tamil Nadu from India.

    The third, in my view is the anger at the Tamils  for the killing of Rajiv Gandhi.

    All the political parties played the Tamil Card, for vote politics in Tamil Nadu, by alternately supporting and withdrawing support to the LTTE.

    On the one hand, India will train LTTE, allow LTTE Chief Prabhakaran to stay in India  excaping from Sri Lankan Authorities,

    MGR will donate publicly to Prabhakaran and when Centre raised its eyebrows started condemning the Terrorists.

    Karunanidhi can outclassed all, by speaking in all voices at the same time, for and against LTTE, for and against Tamil Elam!

    Relatively Jayalalithaa is consistent in terming LTTE as Terrorists and wanted them banned in India and whenever she was/in power terrorist activities will wane.

    Now onto India’s complicity.

    Indi has contributed immensely by way of Intelligence to Sri Lanka in the final stages of the last war.

    In fact India knew of the massacre.

    PPT  speaks of UK and US in being silent spectators, India has been said to be involved in the Killing of the tamils and India’s Role will be probed.

    “While the judges held the USA and the UK to be complicit in the genocidal process, they were of the opinion that more evidence was needed as regards India’s role.”

    http://www.tamilnet.com/img/publish/2013/12/PPT_II_Verdict_Press_Release.pdf

    India and Sri Lanka double speak in 2009.

    ”

    Terming India its “closest ally”, Sri Lanka has said its support during the war with the LTTE helped “reduce the pressure” mounted by the world community and allowed it to proceed with humanitarian operations in the war-ravaged north unhindered.

    “The relationship developed over the past four years with our closest ally, India helped us in many ways in our war against terrorism,” the powerful Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said.

    India’s support greatly helped “reduce the pressure mounted by other nations,” which allowed us to proceed with our humanitarian operations unhindered, Rajapaksa the brother of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said in Colombo on Sunday in Colombo.

    “It is very important that we strengthen this key relationship even further in the years to come,” he said while speaking at a function in Colombo.

    Persuading western countries that they must help Sri Lanka more meaningfully to combat this threat requires us to unite as a nation and speak with one voice, instead of being weakened and divided by petty considerations, he said.

    He said significant support was also received from other key allies that helped withstand the pressure being “directed by the international community to leave the war unfinished.”

    “These countries also provided us vital material assistance towards the war effort, when barriers were put in place that prevented our obtaining military hardware from our western allies,” Rajapaksa said in his address.

    He said even though the Tiger rebels will not be able to resurface in Sri Lanka, their financial network was a matter of concern.”

    http://www.indianexpress.com/news/indias-help-during-ltte-war-reduced-pressure-sri-lanka/542168/

     

    How India was involved.

    3.2  Eelam War IV
    The so‐called Fourth Eelam War resulted from a gradual breakdown of the 2002 ceasefire.
    Specifically, in April 2003 the LTTE announced its unilateral withdrawal from peace negotia‐
    tions after it was excluded from a preparatory meeting of a donor conference taking place in
    the U.S., where the LTTE was categorized as a terrorist organization.4 At least formally, the
    ceasefire survived for nearly five more years, but in 2004 an undeclared war between LTTE
    and government forces flared up again (HRW 2005). By July 2006, the ceasefire had de facto
    collapsed.
    At the same time, the election of Mahinda Rajapaksa as Sri Lanka’s executive president in
    November 2005 in a coalition with hard‐line Sinhalese parties constituted the precondition
    for a much tougher stance against the LTTE. Rajapaksa strengthened Sri Lanka’s military ca‐
    pabilities and established a “highly personalized, authoritarian regime, in which extreme na‐
    tionalist views [were] widely accepted” (ICG 2007: 21). Not only the LTTE displayed a will‐
    ingness to provoke the government and to resume the war, but also the government seemed
    to be keen on a “fight to the finish” (Reddy 2006): “[w]hat was new in the Rajapaksa admini‐
    stration’s approach was the goal of defeating, as opposed to weakening, the LTTE militarily
    and then making the LTTE irrelevant to any political solution to the ethnic conflict” (Uyan‐
    goda 2009).
    3   At the same time, India refused to take part in multilateral initiatives regarding Sri Lanka, for example in donor
    conferences. As one interviewee put it, “at the donor conferences India was present as an observer but it would
    not join a multilateral agreement in its own region!” Interview with expert, New Delhi, November 25, 2008.
    4   See “Exclusion from donors conference undermines peace process”, TamilNet, April 4, 2003, at:
    net.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=8673> (May 25, 2009). Destradi: India and the Civil Warin Sri Lanka: On the Failures ofRegional Conflict Management in SouthAsia 11
    In an unprecedented military offensive, Sri Lankan government forces gradually re‐con‐
    quered the territories under LTTE control—the East in 2007 and, step by step, also the North‐
    ern province. When the Sri Lankan military crossed the border of the Kilinochchi district, the
    displacement  of  a  huge  number  of  civilians—estimated to  be  as  high  as  200,000—began
    (Fuller 2009). On January 2, 2009, the city of Kilinochchi, which had been the Tigers’ adminis‐
    trative  capital  since 1995, fell into the hands of the government forces after a long  siege.
    Trapped between the advancing Sri Lankan armed forces and the retreating LTTE rebels, the
    civilians were used by the LTTE as human shields and subjected to “intentional shelling” by
    the government forces (ICG 2010: i). By mid‐January 2009, the LTTE had been confined to a
    small jungle area in the Mullaithivu district, a space that continued to shrink up until the
    LTTE’s military defeat and the death of its leadership in May 2009.
    Not only was the final phase of the war characterized by massive violations of interna‐
    tional humanitarian law on both sides,5 but according to UN estimates, as of May 22, 2009,
    there were also at least 300,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka (UN 2009a).
    The civilians who managed to escape from the conflict zone were subject to a “screening” by
    the government, which feared that LTTE cadres might have mingled with the refugees. Ap‐
    proximately 250,000 IDPs were put in militarily controlled refugee camps, to which interna‐
    tional aid agencies were given only partial access. Even though many countries pressured
    Colombo, they did not manage to induce a policy change on the part of the Sri Lankan gov‐
    ernment.  China  and Japan,  along  with Russia  and  Vietnam,  prevented the  UN  Security
    Council from discussing the Sri Lankan issue, defined as an internal matter of Sri Lanka
    (Nessman 2009). And even India, as is illustrated in the following sections, supported the Sri
    Lankan government.
    President Rajapaksa, strengthened by his military victory, quickly consolidated his power
    position by winning the presidential election of January 2010 and, with his party, the general
    election of April 2010. Rajapaksa repeatedly refused an international investigation of war
    crimes and human rights violations, as he argued they impinged on Sri Lanka’s sovereignty
    (ICG 2010: 31). The Sri Lankan regime, in the meantime, has been assuming increasingly au‐
    thoritarian traits, exemplified by the power concentrated in Rajapaksa’s family’s hands, an
    almost total lack of press freedom (Schlütter 2010: 1), about 10,000 Sri Lankan citizens being
    held for over a year for assumed involvement in LTTE activities (ICG 2010: 31), an increasingly
    militarized governance culture (Senanayake 2009: 824), and no signs of willingness to find a
    political situation providing for a meaningful devolution of power to the Tamil minority.

     http://www.giga-hamburg.de/de/system/files/publications/wp154_destradi.pdf

     

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  • The LLRC Lie by Rajapakshe Sri Lanka Facts

    The Rajapakshe government has been running for cover over Human Rights abuses.

    Rajapaskhe, Killer of The Tamils
    Mahinda Rjapakshe,President of Sri Lanka.

    Now they have come out with a strategy that od repeating untruths tirelessly and make it Truth.

    On the second front they have Muttiah Muralitharan  talk that there were no killings in Sri Lanka nor were did the people disappear, David Cameron was misled( I have a post on this), with Video Clipping.

    Rajapakshe brazenly stated in the CHOGM Press conference that there were no Human Rights violations during the civil war and the Human Rights violations might have existed in the past, hunting LTTE‘ pathological killing spree.

    He also added that the LLRC is functioning well and its recommendations are being implemented vigorously.

    The facts.

    ‘Sri Lanka has achieved considerable progress in implementing the recommendations made by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) and ready to defend its record at the next session in Geneva, Foreign Secretary Karunathilaka Amunugama said.”

    Resettlement Centers or Gulags?

    “Why can’t the Army go to the jungles instead of taking our lands and sending us to jungles?”

    “When will we be allowed to re-start cultivation of our lands?”

    “When can we have access to the sea we were fishing before and will we get back the boats and fishing equipment we left behind in our village when we were displaced?”

    “Why is there a check point at the entrance to this place?

    “Why are there soldiers and intelligence officers all around us, why can’t we still have the freedom other people in this county have?”

    “Why are visitors not allowed to come and freely talk to us and take photos?”

    “Why have we been sent to another camp? What is different here from Menik Farm?”

    “Why didn’t the authorities clean up the jungles before they sent us here?”

    “When can we have a Kovil and Church?”

    These were some of the questions that people who had fallen victim to the Sri Lankan Government’s latest resettlement program asked us when we visited them last Sunday 30th September 2012.

    The bitter end to Manic Farm

    Throughout August and September 2012, people from Puthukudiyiruppu and Maritimepattu Divisions in the Mullativu district, who had been living in Menik Farm were dumped in schools and roadsides to find their own way home[1]. “Home” was mainly shrub jungles, open air spaces under trees and destroyed houses with doors, windows, roofing, toilet equipment etc. looted. Some had to seek shelter in churches and schools, as their “home” was simply not habitable. Another group we met had been compelled to stay in a small church as the Army was occupying their land[2]. Clearly, the government which had waited for more than three years to send these people home, were now in a might hurry to send them home, without even clearing up jungles.

    As news spread of imminent closure of Menik Farm at any cost, people in the Keppapilavu became apprehensive as they had heard that their lands were occupied by the Army and Air Force and they would not be allowed to go back to their own lands. On 20th Sept., about 55 families (exact number was not clear) from Manic Farm were taken to Vattrappalai school and brought to a jungle area in Seeniyamottai on 21st Sept. Amidst this uncertainty of going back home, several residents of Keppapilavu staged a protest in front of the Mullativu Government Agent’s office on 22nd Sept. There were reports of intimidation and attacks on vehicles of some politicians who attended this event[3]. Several IDPs in Manic Farm had also told that they were prevented from going for the protest.  Those who did attend the protest sent out a public appeal asking to be allowed to go back home to their own lands[4]…

    http://groundviews.org/2013/01/30/implementing-llrc-recommendations-in-sri-lanka-progress/

    This is jus a sample.

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  • Tamil Genocide Census Sri Lanka Begins Spin Machine Overdrive.

    Bowing down to International Pressure the Sri Lankan Government is set to start counting the casualties of its Civil War.

    Tamil News presenter killed.
    Brutal End,Image from:
    http://www.salem-news.com/articles/november032013/tamil-reporter-video-tk.php

    One does not know whether it will include the those killed in Mullivaikkal And elsewhere as a part of Tamil ‘Final Solution’

    Even then the count is likely to be misleading.

    I make this observation based on the Media frenzy in Sri Lanka where every death in the Civil War is being attributed to LTTE

    LTTE has to share the blame for its terrorist activities and its indiscriminate killing of civilians, Tamil Leaders.

    Lanka web has been spewing venom on Tamils and on the international community and I am producing excerpts below.

    On The Human Rights Issue in Sri Lanka.

    ”

    But why and who is responsible for  this wild accusation by the West ?

    There had not been any violation of human rights  for which Sri Lanka could correctly  be singled out as the only country in the world committing violations against the rights of its people.

    If we examine the number of innocent people who have been killed and continued to be killed by other  wealthy Nations in the world, not in their own countries but in other developing countries outside their own, using their NATO or American Armed Forces chasing after terrorists, what human right violations Sri Lanka  is accused of having committed cannot be regarded as such.

    These accusations against Sri Lanka are being made without taking into consideration that Sri Lanka suffered from terrorism  for  nearly thirty years  and carried out military operations against the terrorists without going outside its own territorial boundaries, as the West is doing.  Sri Lanka cannot therefore be accused for violation of human rights as it carried out its military operations strictly within the country avoiding  damage as far as possible  to its own  civilian population.

    A war against terrorism is different from a declared war against a country. In Sri Lanka it was just  a group of  Tamil youth within the country who had taken up arms against the Government. They were  taken  by the Indian Secret Service and trained as terrorists and released into the country to accomplish their aim of dividing the country to form a separate State for the Tamil Community.  Those Tamil terrorists who eventually  turned out to be a considerable force had to be eliminated  as they were causing considerable suffering to the people of the whole country for nearly three decades.

    The civilians no doubt may have got killed in the course of  military operations  to eliminate that destructive  terrorism despite the care taken by the Government Air Forces for precise bombing, and others may have got killed being caught in the cross fire between the terrorists and armed forces.

    But vast destruction to the country and lot of murders of civilians in large scale massacres in unimaginable ways and means employing claymore bombs, in buses , trains, market places, and using kidnapped Tamil women trained as suicide bombers exploding themselves to eliminate selected human targets,  had been carried out by the terrorists through out the 30 years of their ruthless, atrocious existence.

    In that situation of utter horror the country faced for thirty years the civilian deaths in the course of the elimination of terrorists by the Armed Forces of Sri Lanka cannot by any imagination be called violation of human rights, and least of all war crimes…

    Britain is guilty of war Crimes.

    ”

    Dear Editor,

    I was amazed at the number of examples given by the contributors to this publication about the instances of Britain’s human rights abuses. If you wish to read about all of Britain’s abuses of human rights since 1944 then please refer to or purchase the following book: –

    Curtis, M (2004). Unpeople, Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses. London, England. Vintage.

    ISBN: 9780099469728

    Mark Curtis is a former Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). He has written extensively on Britain’s and USA’s foreign policies. Two of his more famous books are:

    1. The Ambiguities of Power, British Foreign Policy since 1945, and
    2. Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World.

    Curtis’s seminal publication, Unpeople, Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses contains 323 easy-to-read pages with 39 pages of references and notes. I purchased this book in 2011.

    At the very end of ‘Unpeople’, Curtis provides a table of figures giving the number of deaths since 1944 for which Britain has significant responsibility. He has divided the table in to 4 categories: –

    1. Direct responsibility.
    2. Indirect responsibility.
    3. Active inaction.
    4. Others.

    Curtis concludes that Britain has significant direct responsibility for between 4 and 6 million deaths.

    One dimension we tend to have forgotten is Britain’s role in the slave trade! The Portuguese and Spanish had the lead in this lucrative trade but British businessmen became involved in the trade in the 16th century, and the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) gave them the right to sell slaves in the Spanish Empire.

    In the 18th century, perhaps 6 million Africans were taken in atrocious conditions to the Americas as slaves, at least a third of them in British ships based mainly in Liverpool. The trade in human beings was termed “The triangular trade”. Slavery was a legal institution in all of the 13 American colonies and Canada (acquired by Britain in 1763). The profits of the slave trade and of Caribbean plantations amounted to 5% of the British economy at the time of the Industrial revolution.

    The first part of “The triangular trade” was to take items such as guns and brandy to Africa to exchange for slaves. The second side of the triangle was to take the slaves on the ‘Middle Passage’ across the Atlantic to sell in the West Indies and North America. To complete the triangle the traders took a cargo of rum, cotton, gold and sugar back to sell in England.

    Mr. Cameron, wake up! As our President Mahinda Rajapakse rightly said “People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”.

    Killing people in Hospital was by LTTE not Airstrike,look how the video is interpolated.

    There is a series of Videos on this subject.

    http://www.lankaweb.com/

    Sri Lanka War Dead counting,

    Sri Lanka began counting the dead from its 26-year civil war on Thursday, less than two weeks after the island nation came under intense international pressure to investigate allegations of war crimes during the climax of the conflict.

    Some 16,000 officials will spread out across the country in a major operation that the government said would take six months to complete.

    More than 100,000 people are believed to have died during the 1983-2009 war between Tamil Tiger separatists concentrated in the north and government forces.

    In the most contentious, bloody phase, some 300,000 civilians, mostly ethnic minority Tamils, were trapped on a narrow beach during the army’s final onslaught on rebels, and a U.N. panel estimates 40,000 non-combatants died in a few days.

    Both sides committed atrocities, but army shelling killed most victims, the panel concluded.

    D.C.A. Gunawardena, director general of the Department of Census and Statistics, said the country-wide survey would assess the death toll and damage to property since 1982.

    But he conceded that the census could not give a full picture of the scale of losses.

    “There is a limitation,” Gunawardena told Reuters. “If somebody’s whole family died or fled the country, then nobody will be there to give their details.”

    http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/sri-lanka-counts-war-dead-after-pressure-from-abroad-452197

     

     

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  • Channel 4 Genocide Films Rajapaksha. Report

    During the CHOGM meet a group of Journalists from the Channel 4 were prevented from visiting the area where the Tamil Genocide by the Bureaucrats and a Sinhalese mob.David Cameron the Prime Minister of UK visited the area and tweeted.

    Please read my post on this.

    There is always a justification from the Sri Lanka Government that weighed against the terrorism and killing by the LTTE, the Action by the Government is nothing.

    I read an interesting article in the Colombo Telegraph by Callum Macrae -.

    He examines this arguments and his views are worth the salt.

    The justification by the Rajapaksha and Co can not explain away the killing of innocent Tamils who were not LTTE.

    On the one hand they were being killed by the LTTE, on the other by their(?) Government.?

    What a Plight?

    “They haunt our every move, on their motorbikes in their silver hatchback and on their tuk tuks. Sri Lanka’s intelligence officers are a tenacious lot, but there’s another group perhaps even more tenacious in their pursuit of us: “spontaneous”, pro-government demonstrators…

    So here’s the issue. There are two versions of the situation in the traumatised north-east of the island, where perhaps 40,000 or even more, innocent Tamil civilians died in the horrific last few months of Sri Lanka’s civil war that lasted a quarter of a century.

    The government and its supporters say the place is transformed: there are new roads, they say, new schools, former fighters “rehabilitated”, hotels being built and elections held.

    But the Tamils who live there tell another story. They speak of continuing misery, of military occupation, of a climate of fear. A place where thousands remain homeless while army land-grabs continue unabated. Where thousands are still missing – and many women who remain are subject to the systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of repression.

    Of course, the way for journalists to get to the truth is to go there and see for themselves. But despite assurances from the president himself that we would be free to travel, it was not to be; several hundred noisy government supporters made sure of that.

    That’s the problem for those who would try to hide the truth. If you want to work out which side is telling lies, you just have to work out who is trying to stop you seeing things with your own eyes. Here’s a clue: it wasn’t the Tamils…

    For Sri Lanka’s president, what he hoped would be the golden chalice of the Commonwealth summit is rapidly changing into a poisoned one – and the problem is that Colombo’s supporters blame that process almost entirely on Channel 4. In particular, Channel 4 News and – with extra, added venom – me.”

    Source:

    https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/a-film-of-alleged-war-crimes-how-i-became-sri-lankas-most-hated-man/

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  • Tamil Genocide Proof Rajapakshe Here It Is

    Now that the CHOGM is underway, there are certain issues that have to be discussed in the Summit.

    Tamils mob David Cameron in Sri Lanka.
    Genocide survivors mob David Cameron.

    I have written about the spineless cowardly act of India in sending Indian Foreign Minister to attend the CHOGM in Colombo.

    After David Cameron’s statement  that abstaining from the summit would not serve any purpose but raising the issue at the Summit.

    This seems to me a very productive approach.

    He added that he intended to visit the northern area affected by Genocide,though he called it the ‘affected area’ and true to his words, he proceeded there.

    The news is that he was mobbed by the affected people , giving vent to their anguish,

    “David Cameron’s motorcade was ‘mobbed’ by protestors as he travelled through northern Sri Lanka.

    Uniformed police fought with a crowd of up to 200 Tamils, many of them women brandishing photographs of missing relatives, who sought to hand over letters and petitions to the PM.

    At least two women were able to get up close to the windows of Mr Cameron’s car, as the motorcade departed from the visit.

    The women who managed to reach the PM’s car were seen to be thrown aside by Sri Lankan police officers. Cameron had just left a library building when the incident happened…

    ”

     

    Rajapakshe in his address to the CHOGM  Press meet  is reported to have said that though there have been violations of Human Rights in the past, meaning LTTE, he was prepared to take action if proof of war crime is provided.

    Well ,Mr .Rajapakshe, here it is.

    http://ramanisblog.in/2013/03/29/rape-of-tamil-women-in-sri-lanka-photos/

    http://ramanisblog.in/2013/10/02/tamil-women-children-killed-in-sri-lanka-gruesome-images/

    http://ramanisblog.in/2011/04/26/un-panel-indicts-sri-lanka-on-tamil-genocide-videos/

    The videos in the above post are unavailable as they were removed by YouTube  because of gruesome content.

    Read under Sri Lanka for more images and stories.

    Source:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/15/david-cameron-tamil-protestors-northern-sri-lanka_n_4279759.html