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  • Killing Of Tamils What Is Wrong In Handling The Issue

    Some people who are interested, definitely no politicians,in the resolution of the Sri Lanka Tamils issue have been in touch with me.

     

    Tamils Raped Killed Lanka.jpg
    Tamils Raped Killed Lanka.

     

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    Killing Of Tamils Lanka.

     

    They are trying their best in their own way to bring in awareness among the people of world about the injustice meted out to the Tamil People in Lanka and the massacre of the Tamils in Sri Lanka.

     

    These people, in their personal capacity are bringing this matter to the attention of the US Government , the Congress members of the US,Members of the

     

    EU and Australia.

     

    They had asked for my views on these issues.

     

    My views are.

     

    The Lankan issue , in my opinion, has not brought forth to the Public forcefully.

     

    Mere publishing of shocking videos/images and news items of sufferings of the individuals.

     

     

    The issue has not gone home to people it ought to.

     

    You cross Nayudupet or Kuppam in Andhra, no body talks about this at all.

     

    I am settled in Bangalore.

     

    When I ask my friends in Karnataka about the Tamils issue, their answer is..

     

    ‘This is not new.Tamils a create problems wherever they go and they get the punishment.

     

    Moreover, Sri Lankan Tamils are anti Hindus and anti Indians.

     

    They killed our Prime Minister.

     

    Let us talk about some thing else”

     

    This is not the view of Kannadigas alone.

     

    Wherever I go in the North, I get similar feedback.

     

    Why?

    1.Too much emphasis has been given to the word Tamils and not on the human right issue.

     

    2.Why the Tamils have been treated this way and what their problems are, have not been clearly brought forth.

     

    People talk about LLC and no body talks about Sirimavo agreement with India.

     

    Nor the fact that the Tamils have been denied basic Rights in Lanka.

     

    That they are treated as menials and second -rate citizens in their own country.

     

    That their lands are grabbed.

     

    Sinhalese are brought in to show that Sinhalese are in majority.

     

    Their language Tamil is being slowly erased from the Island.

     

    That Hinduism is systematically wiped out by destroying  Temples, Cultural Centers.

     

    Employment opportunities and schooling are denied to the Tamils.

     

    For the Conduct of a minor  Hindu Religious function Governmental permission is required in Tamil areas of Jaffna.

     

    Children and women are raped and killed.

     

    Torture , Repression and killing of people is not restricted to Tamils.

     

    Now Tamils are exterminated , nearly, it is the turn of Muslims and Christians.

     

    Not to leave political dissenters like JVP, or the Media.

     

    The Matale Mass grave speak of the killing of JVP, it might have included Tamils as well.

     

    These facts are not known to public in a manner that they can understand.

     

    Pouring out emotions will be of no help.

     

    This is a practical issue that needs practical approach and the first step is presentation facts and presenting them to the suitable audience who matter,

     

    The issue of Lankan Tamils being anti Hindu is ill founded.

     

    These are the people who propagated Shavisam and Kaumaram in Lanka and  Far East.

     

    Major donors of famous temples are Lankan Tamils.

     

    Then why this perception.

     

     

    In Diplomacy it is not organised facts alone that guarantee people’s ears but how and through whom it is presented.

     

    The Tamil issue is being presented by Karunanidhi and DK , who are known to be anti Hindus.

     

    People perceive the people and the issue they promote are also anti Hindus.

     

    more to follow…..

     

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  • Bosnia And Sri Lanka Genocide

     

    “In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Balkan states of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia became part of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia. After the death of longtime Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito in 1980, growing nationalism among the different Yugoslav republics threatened to split their union apart. This process intensified after the mid-1980s with the rise of the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, who helped foment discontent between Serbians in Bosnia and Croatia and their Croatian, Bosniak and Albanian neighbors. In 1991, Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia declared their independence; during the war in Croatia that followed, the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army supported Serbian separatists there in their brutal clashes with Croatian forces.

    In Bosnia, Muslims represented the largest single population group by 1971. More Serbs and Croats emigrated over the next two decades, and in a 1991 census Bosnia’s population of some 4 million was 44 percent Bosniak, 31 percent Serb, and 17 percent Croatian. Elections held in late 1990 resulted in a coalition government split between parties representing the three ethnicities (in rough proportion to their populations) and led by the Bosniak Alija Izetbegovic. As tensions built inside and outside the country, the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his Serbian Democratic Party withdrew from government and set up their own “Serbian National Assembly.” On March 3, 1992, after a referendum vote (which Karadzic’s party blocked in many Serb-populated areas), President Izetbegovic proclaimed Bosnia’s independence.

    Far from seeking independence for Bosnia, Bosnian Serbs wanted to be part of a dominant Serbian state in the Balkans–the “Greater Serbia” that Serbian separatists had long envisioned. In early May 1992, two days after the United States and the European Community (precursor to the European Union) recognized Bosnia’s independence, Bosnian Serb forces with the backing of Milosevic and the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army launched their offensive with a bombardment of Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo. They attacked Bosniak-dominated town in eastern Bosnia, including Zvornik, Foca, and Visegrad, forcibly expelling Bosniak civilians from the region in a brutal process that later was identified as “ethnic cleansing.” (Ethnic cleansing differs from genocide in that its primary goal is the expulsion of a group of people from a geographical area and not the actual physical destruction of that group, even though the same methods–including murder, rape, torture and forcible displacement–may be used.)

    Though Bosnian government forces tried to defend the territory, sometimes with the help of the Croatian army, Bosnian Serb forces were in control of nearly three-quarters of the country by the end of 1993, and Karadzic’s party had set up their own Republika Srpska in the east. Most of the Bosnian Croats had left the country, while a significant Bosniak population remained only in smaller towns. Several peace proposals between a Croatian-Bosniak federation and Bosnian Serbs failed when the Serbs refused to give up any territory. The United Nations (U.N.) refused to intervene in the conflict in Bosnia, but a campaign spearheaded by its High Commissioner for Refugees provided humanitarian aid to its many displaced, malnourished and injured victims.

     

    ‘The Sri Lankan civil war was very costly, killing an estimated 80,000-100,000 people between 1982 and 2009.

     

     

     

     

    “The deaths include 27,639 Tamil fighters, more than 21,066 Sri Lankan soldiers, 1000 Sri Lankan police, 1500 Indian soldiers, and tens of thousands of civilians.[citation needed] The Uppsala Conflict Data Program, a university-based data collection program considered to be “one of the most accurate and well-used data-sources on global armed conflicts” provides free data to the public and has divided Sri Lanka’s conflicts into groups based on the actors involved. It collectively reported that between 1990 and 2009 between 59,193-75,601 people were killed in Sri Lanka during various three types of organized armed conflict: “State-based” conflicts, those that involved the Government of Sri Lanka against rebel groups(LTTE and the JVP), “Non-state” conflicts, those conflicts that did not involve the government of Sri Lanka (e.g. LTTE vs. LTTE-Karuna Faction, and LTTE vs. PLOTE), as well as “One-sided” violence, that involved deliberate attacks against civilians perpetrated by either LTTE or the Government of Sri Lanka”

     

     

    Figures quoted above are way below par.

     

    This does not include the killing of JVP cadres.

     

     

    Add to this,

     

    Mass killings,

     

    Rape,

     

    Confiscation of the lands of the Tamils,

     

    Killing those who came to surrender.

     

    …

     

    Bosina killers have been identified and action taken.

     

    Sri Lankan Government?

     

     

    Is this International Justice?

     

    Citation,

     

    Wiki.

     

    Bosnian Genocide, History Channel

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  • Military Raped Tamils Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajabakse

    Defense Minister and brother of the President Mahinda Rajapakshe, Sri Lanka declared ,

     

    “”I will be surprised if my military did not rape Tamil women.”

     

    This he  said in his statement in an interview.

     

     

    “Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, accused the British Tamil aid worker, Damilvany Kumar of fabricating the story in an interview with Headlines Today:

    “Now, she [Damilvany Kumar] says that there had been all these alleged rape and murder and all these things. Now she is one person who will get attracted by soldiers, because she is so different from others.

    I want to know whether she was raped. She was there for one year. She came with the IDPs, and she was in the IDP camps.”

    The permanent secretary to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights,Rajiva Wijesinha, stating that allegations of rape by the military lacked sufficient details to be substantiated, told The Observer:

    “We received a report that a soldier went into a tent at 11pm and came out at 3am. It could have been sex for pleasure, it could have been sex for favours, or it could have been a discussion on Ancient Greek philosophy, we don’t know.”

    On another occasion when asked by a Sky News reporter about the allegations of sexual violence within the camps, Mr Wijesinha replied:

    “There are a few blue eyed children in that camp, so you know that some of the NGOs have had a jolly good time when they were up in Vavuniya, so when you go up just have a look and try and identify them.“

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    The Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict begins in London tomorrow, co-hosted by the UK’s Foreign Secretary, William Hague and the Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina Jolie. 

    In the run up to the ESVC summit, we have been revisiting the mounting evidence which documents the widespread, systematic and on-going use of sexual violence by Sri Lanka’s military against Tamils, that occurs with absolute impunity.

    The summit follows the Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, tabled by the Mr Hague and endorsed by two-thirds of UN member states, which condemns the on-going use of sexual violence in conflicts and pledged to ensure justice for victims.

    Sri Lanka was highlighted by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a key country where rape was used as a tactic of war, in October 2009, only a few months after the armed conflict ended.

    Addressing an UN Security Council focused on rape in war, she said:

    “Now, reading the headlines, one might think that the use of rape as a tactic of war only happens occasionally, or in a few places, like the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Sudan.  

    That would be bad enough, but the reality is much worse. We’ve seen rape used as a tactic of war before in Bosnia, Burma, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere. 

    In too many countries and in too many cases, the perpetrators of this violence are not punished, and so this impunity encourages further attacks.

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    Much of the photographic and video evidence of sexual violence in the final stages of the armed conflict emerged in the form of ‘trophy videos’, filmed by Sri Lankan soldiers themselves whilst committing the crimes.

    One of the latest videos to emerge depicts soldiers performing acts of sexual violence on the stripped, dead bodies of Tamil LTTE fighters.

    Citations. and for more check the following Links.

    http://www.tamilguardian.com/article.asp?articleid=11114

    http://www.itamil.org/UN/Reference/An%20Officially%20rapist%20government%20of%20Sri%20lanka.html

     

     

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  • Rape of Tamil Women By Sri Lanka, Human Rights Watch Report

    Human Rights watch released a Video of rape victim of Sri Lankan Armed Forces.

    it has also released a 146 page report on The

    Cases of Rape and Other Sexual Violence by Sri Lankan Security Forces, 2006-2012.

    I am posting excerpts and the Link for the full Report is provided at the end of the post.

    As usual Sri Lanka has come out with a denial.

    Rape of Tamil Women in Sri Lanka
    Rape of Tamil Women in Sri Lanka

    The Denial.(IBN Live)

    ‘Responding to the claims, Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya, Sri Lankan military spokesman said the content providers for the report were those who had applied for political asylum in the West.

    “These are fabrications to justify their claims for asylum. The army is ready to investigate if there are proper complaints”, Wanigasooriya said

    He said the government has resettled about 300,000 displaced people in the conflict while another nearly 12,000 LTTE ex-cadres had been rehabilitated and reintegrated into society. “No one has made any complaint of rape”, he said.

    The report quotes HRW’s Brad Adams as saying “The Sri Lankan security forces have committed untold number of rapes of Tamil women and men in custody”

     

    Report.

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    Published on Feb 26, 2013

    (London, February 26, 2013) — Sri Lankan security forces have been using rape and other forms of sexual violence to torture suspected members or supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. While widespread rape in custody occurred during the armed conflict that ended in May 2009, Human Rights Watch found that politically motivated sexual violence by the military and police continues to the present.

    The 140-page report, “‘We Will Teach You a Lesson’: Sexual Violence against Tamils by Sri Lankan Security Forces,” provides detailed accounts of 75 cases of alleged rape and sexual abuse that occurred from 2006-2012 in both official and secret detention centers throughout Sri Lanka. In the cases documented by Human Rights Watch, men and women reported being raped on multiple days, often by several people, with the army, police, and pro-government paramilitary groups frequently participating.”

    “We Will Teach You a Lesson”

    Note on sources: in 60 of the 75 cases documented in this appendix, we spoke directly with the victim and were able to obtain medical records with the consent of the victim, corroborating the victim’s claims of rape and other sexual violence. In another 8 cases, we spoke directly with the victim and relied on sources other than medical records to corroborate his or her claims. In 3 of these 8 cases, no medico legal reports were prepared since the UK courts found the victims’ account of rape and torture credible and granted them asylum. In the remaining 5 cases, we spoke to witnesses who were present with the victim after their rape. In 7 cases, we were not able to speak directly with the victim but obtained medico-legal reports, prepared by doctors and submitted to the courts in support of their asylum claim, that provided detailed evidence of sexual abuse. For ease of presentation below, we reference medical reports in citations only in the cases in which they were our main source for the case or in which we had no access to such records.

    Name: JH (all initials are pseudonyms and bear no relation to the person’s actual name)

    Gender: Male

    Age: 23

    Date Detained: September 2012

    Date Released: October 2012

    Circumstances of detention: JH arrived in the UK to pursue higher studies in March 2011 and returned to Sri Lanka to attend to family matters on August 17, 2012. One evening in September 2012, JH was walking home in Colombo when a white van pulled up near him. Several men jumped out and told him to join them for an investigation. They blindfolded him and drove him for over an hour to an unknown site.

    Account:

    I was taken up some stairs but when they removed my blindfold I found myself in a room where four other men were present. I was tied to a chair and questioned about my links to the LTTE and the reason for my recent travel abroad. They stripped me and started beating me. I was beaten with electric wires and burned with cigarettes. My interrogators tried to asphyxiate me.[100] Later that night, I was left in a smaller room. I was raped on three consecutive days. The first night, one man came alone and anally raped me. The second and third night, two men came to my room. They anally raped me and also forced me to have oral sex with them. I signed a confession admitting my links with the LTTE after the rapes.[101]

     

    JH’s medico legal report, on file with Human Rights Watch, notes that the physical evidence of scars on his body strongly support his account of torture. The report further adds: “the spots of dark pigmentation on his buttocks and around his anus are consistent with an infective rash which has now healed, support in my view, a situation in which he was repeatedly subjected to anal intercourse in which his skin has become lacerated and easily infected.”

    JH escaped detention after his family bribed CID officials. He has since received medical care for severe anal pain.

     

    http://www.hrw.org/node/113787/section/11

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