The World is concerned about Qadhafi and is pounding Libya.
Mass murderer is making deals with the world powers.
UN is yet to come to any decision on the atrocities committed on Tamils in Sri Lanka.
India is a mute spectator.
Whenever a mumble is heard from the rulers in Chennai is heard Nirupama Rao flies to Colombo, has tea with the killers and comes back.
Hope that Jayalalithaas’s hard stand that Economic Sanctions on Sri Lanka bears fruit.
Dr.Kalaignar is busy weeping over a corrupt daughter.
If it were Jews who had been killed in Sri Lanka, US would have invaded Sri Lanka and Israel would have spirited away Rajapakshe.
Please read my other blogs filed under” ‘Sri Lanka’ – ‘Tamils’
This film contains very disturbing images,” warned Jon Snow at the beginning of Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields. It would, he continued, depict “death, injury, execution and evidence of sexual abuse and murder”…
Channel 4‘s film addressed a crime of omission as well – the failure of the international community to effectively protest against the treatment of civilians in the closing stages of the civil war. It began with the withdrawal of the United Nations from Kilinochchi, the Tamil capital in the north, after the Sri Lankan government had announced that it could no longer guarantee the safety of the UN mission, a move interpreted here as a premeditated plan to remove inconvenient witnesses…
“Sri Lankans must be allowed to see the panel’s findings. The report concerns a critical period in their recent history and they deserve to read it in full,” said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Director.
“Ban Ki-moon said that ‘accountability is an essential foundation for durable peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka’. He must stick to his word – accounting for violations committed in the recent conflict is the first step to future reconciliation”.
The UN Panel of Experts was appointed in June 2010 to advise the Secretary General on accountability issues relating to violations of international human rights and humanitarian law alleged in the final stages of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka, which ended in May 2009.
The panel was also asked to recommend a course of action that would ensure accountability, in line with a joint commitment made by President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka and Ban Ki-moon on his visit to Sri Lanka in May 2009.
Now Sri Lanka has warned the UN that publicly releasing a report on allegedwar crimes committed as its civil war was ending could harm efforts at post-war ethnic reconciliation.
You wipe out a generation and exposing them shall harm the ‘Reconciliation Efforts’
Sri Lanka is being let off easily.
India instead of bringing out the Truth is keeping mum for geopolitical reasons or is it because those who were exterminated belong to South of Vindhyas?
This attitude ,whatever be the reasons, shall breed separatism in India .
It is in the interest of India in the long run that it intervenes on behalf of Tamils.
Well, I am not saying anything about the ‘Leader of Tamils World Wide’
He is busy getting berths in the Cabinet for his kin and of late trying to wiggle out of Scams,especially 2G scam.
Probably he will write a letter to Center on the plight of Tamils.
DELHI: The Sri Lankan government deliberately shelled hospitals, fired on civilians in no-fire zones and attacked the United Nations and Red Cross in the dying days of the country’s civil war two years ago, a leaked UN report says.
Extracts of the report, which was to be released this week, say there are ”credible” reports of war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan government and the separatist Tamil Tiger movement, which was finally defeated in May 2009 after a 30-year insurgency.
The UN committee, led by Marzuki Darusman, a former Indonesian attorney-general, has called for an independent investigation into the final months of the war, when fighting was focused on the Vanni area in the north-east, as government troops pushed retreating Tigers and thousands of civilians into smaller and smaller no-fire zones.
The naked man, his hands bound behind his back, is pushed to the ground. Then a man in military uniform delivers a forceful kick to the back of the prisoner’s head with the heel of his boot. As the prisoner slumps forward, another soldier points his automatic weapon and fires a single shot. The man’s body jolts. “It’s like he jumped,” laughs one of the giggling soldiers.
As gunfire rattles, the camera pans left to reveal a further seven bloodstained bodies, all handcuffed and bound, and – with one exception – similarly naked, strewn on the ground. The camera then pans right again, as another naked man is forced to the ground and shot in the back of the head. This time the body falls backwards.
These scenes, captured on video, allegedly show extra-judicial killings of Tamils by Sri Lankan troops earlier this year in the bitter and bloody endgame of the country’s civil war. As government forces made a decisive thrust into the stronghold of rebel forces to end the decades-long conflict, a Sri Lankan soldier apparently took this footage, which was then smuggled out of the country by activists. It may constitute the first hard evidence for those who believe war crimes were committed in the effort to crush the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The significance of this footage – particularly shocking for the seemingly casual way in which the killings were carried out – is even greater given the way that journalists and independent observers were prevented by the government from reaching the war zone. The UN has estimated that 10,000 civilians were killed in what was, in effect, a war with no witnesses.
Follow the link to view the rape and execution of Tamils(Video). Emboldened by the apathy of the international community,Sri Lanka is brazenly challenging international community.Hear the Govt.officials on the ‘Jolly good time the NCO had with the Tamil women ‘.watch the extermination of Tamils.
Scared of being taken to task, Sri Lanka is now using strong-arm tactics to arm twisting the UN.
Let not international community commit the mistake of Chamberlain or overlook this as was in Serbia.
Time to subjugate Sri Lanka. http://www.oruclip.net/video/nuyXVV_e3Fk/SHOCKING-LEAK-SRI-LANKAN-ARMY-MASS-RAPE-AND-EXECUTION-OF-TAMIL-WOMEN-REPORT-BY-AUSTRALIAN-MEDIA.html
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Embassies in Sri Lanka have expressed dismay over an “intimidating” protest which has blockaded the United Nations compound in the capital.
Hundreds of people are demonstrating against a UN panel investigating alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka.
Diplomatic missions including those of the UK, US and Germany said blocking access to the UN and “intimidating” its workers breached “international norms”.
There were chaotic scenes outside the UN offices as police were called in.
Ten embassies in the capital, Colombo, issued a joint statement on Saturday condemning the protests, which they said would harm Sri Lanka’s reputation on the international stage.
In the statement, they called upon the Sri Lankan government to take “all appropriate steps” to ensure the safety of the UN compound and staff.
War crimes allegations
The latest escalation comes a day after the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, urged Sri Lanka to “normalise conditions” around the UN office in Colombo after days of angry demonstrations.
On Thursday, Mr Ban recalled his top envoy to the island, Neil Buhne, and closed a regional office in Colombo.
Most UN staff managed to leave the compound after police tried to break the blockade in Colombo on Tuesday, before they too were ordered to leave by the government.
Several senior staff, however, remained inside and the protests, led by a government minister, were continuing.
India,apart from the assassination of RAJIV Gandhi,has other serious concern in intervening on behalf of Tamils in Sri Lanka;that is the formation of Tamil ELAM might embolden the separatist tendencies in Tamil Nadu to call for a separate State and the oft repeated declaration of Tamil Nadu politicians and Srilankan Tamil leaders of forming a grand Tamil State annexing Tamil Nadu from India.
The majority of Tamils in Sri Lanka do not seem to support this view.;only politicians are harping on this proposal.
India must intervene , along with Major powers to secure a just solution of granting equal Rights for Tamils and organise for a set up in which Tamils enjoy autonomy under a federal structure.China will thwart this move as the present uncertainty helps it strategically in the Indian Ocean.
If India procastinates its impact may be felt in Tamil Nadu.
SRI Lankan Govt, is quietly and systematically wiping out Tamil populatioan and also settling Sinhalese In Tamil areas.
Time India acted or it may have to face a back lash in Tamil Nadu
Story:
Somebody once said democracy is the right to choose your dictator. For the minority Tamils in Sri Lanka, the presidential election in late January presented such a baffling dilemma. Should they vote for the man who ordered a bloody war on their homeland or for the military general who actually led the troops into their fields? In the end most Tamils stayed home on the poll day unable to fathom who was the lesser evil.
Their paralysis helped the political commander. President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who had gambled by calling a snap election two years ahead of schedule, won a decisive mandate to run the island nation for another six years starting November 2010. The Sinhalese majority rewarded him for vanquishing the once invincible Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a ruthless guerrilla force that led a separatist campaign in the Tamil parts for more than three decades. http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/18/forbes-india-tamils-in-sri-lanka.html?partner=alerts
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