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.
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
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.
Size of the County or the strength of Economy or Military Might has no relevance.
Now the Congress is asking for votes for a Stronger Government in New Delhi.
Strong for more Scams?
This is what Sri Lanka has done pre and post Resolution on Genocide, the killing of the Tamils in Lanka.
Valueless ,Inhuman ,Spineless and cowardly act
“Sri Lanka’s president ordered the release on Friday of 98 Indian fishermen detained for poaching as a “goodwill gesture” after New Delhi abstained in a vote on a U.N. resolution that approved an international inquiry into alleged war crimes on the island.
India, Sri Lanka’s largest trade partner, backed two prior resolutions, but on Thursday unexpectedly took a neutral stand on the demand for a probe into actions by both Sri Lankan state forces and Tamil rebels during the 26-year conflict that ended in 2009.
“The president ordered the release of all Indian fishermen as a goodwill gesture,” Mohan Samaranayaka, a spokesman for President Mahinda Rajapaksa, told Reuters.
A total of 23 states voted in favour of the U.S.-led resolution, 12 against and 12 abstained. Among those who voted against were China and Pakistan, while India withheld its vote over concerns that the investigation would be “intrusive”.”
The leaked UNHRC report by Naveetham Pillai to the UN on the War Crimes of Sri Lanka in killing the Tamils en masse indicated that there is substance in the allegation that the Sri Lanka Government was indeed Guilty of War Crimes.
Mass Grave Pudukkudiyiruupunew Mass Grave in Sri Lanka
Navneetham Pillai stated that , on her visit to Sri Lanka some time back, British PM Cameron was prevented from visiting th site and the Tamils mobbed him and reported to him the atrocities committed, she was not given enough co-operation by the Sri Lankan Government and that a case exists for an International Probe for War Crimes by Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka promptly rejected her statement.
Earlier the Sri Lanka Minister abused her stating that he was ready to marry her!
‘“I urge her to join me to go on a trip around the country. I would teach her the history of Sri Lanka, I would tell her about Maha Ravana. It was we who gave Kuweni in marriage to Prince Wijaya and if Madam Pillay is agreeable I am ready to marry her even tomorrow,” he said.
He made these remarks addressing a public meeting in Maradana, Colombo today.
“We are a nation that wore garments prior to the white man, and I will teach Madam Pillay a bit of our history. We were a nation which conducted trade with the world during the era before Christ. In order to do a study on our nation she has to visit Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa and Ruhuna. We are a nation that built a flying machine (Dandu monara- a mythological flying machine) before Wilber t and Orville Wright,” he said.
He further said the country today was free of the clutches of terrorism due to the steadfastness of the Rajapaksas and it was the President who led the country to both the defeat of terrorism and peaceful co- existence among communities.’
Now that the US is planing to table a resolution to censure Sri Lanka and initiate action to institute an International Enquiry into the mass killing of the Tamils, the Sri Lanka Government is on the offensive mode with the Sri Lanka Media joining the chorus.
A dampener to them has come in the way of a family ploughing their backyard and stumbling across a mass grave.
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This incident was registered after two remains exhumed while a house owner ploughed the backyard.
Dr S Sivaruban, the Judicial Medical Officer (JMO) of Jaffna Teaching hospital has stated that the majority of the skeletons were female.
The clothes of the remains have been decomposed, however pieces of Nylon and a National Identity Card were recovered from the grave, he revealed.
Dr. Sivaruban further stated that the residents of the area mentioned that Moonkilaru village faced an artillery attack in 2009.
In an inquiry made by ‘BBC Sandeshaya’ Media Spokesman for the Police, SSP Ajith Rohana has stated that the area was under the rule of LTTE for over 20 years.
The parts of skeleton are being subjected to further investigations, he added.’
The Rajapakshe government has been running for cover over Human Rights abuses.
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]…
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.
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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.
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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.
The Ambiguities of Power, British Foreign Policy since 1945, and
Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World.
Curtis’s seminal publication, Unpeople, Britain’s Secret Human RightsAbuses 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: –
Direct responsibility.
Indirect responsibility.
Active inaction.
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.
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.”
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