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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

12 Jun 2014

UNHRC Genocide Resolution Let Off Rajspakshe Swamy

The much talked about Resolution by The UNHRC is, as anticipated, attracting lot of sound bites.

A sane Group calls for India to vote for it censuring Sri Lanka , while another motley group including Salman Khurshid who hums and haws(probably the after effects of his NGO scam!), who cite India’s security concerns.

Surprising fact is that Dr.Subramanian Swamyhas joined the motley group that wants the Resolution to be voted against.

Swamy, at his initiative best’ met Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert Blake and impressed on him that the Resolution would help the revival of the LTTE and asked the Obama Administration to undertake bilateral consultations with Colombo to work out a consensus on the draft of the alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka proposed to be tabled in UNHRC in Geneva.

‘India’s Janatha Party leader was apprising the media of his talks with Washington officials.

“Under no circumstances the resolution has any indication that President Rajapaksa and others are guilty of war crimes. Whatever has to be done has to be done by the Government of Sri Lanka and not by international agencies. The demand for international agencies essentially comes from supporters of LTTE’.

1.How does an enquiry would revive LTTE?

As I understand, so do most about the Killing ways of the LTTE and it is its lust for blood had weakened the case of the Sri Lankan Tamils.

2.How come the bilateral talks would not spur the activities of LTTE, if a motion could reawaken it?

Read this observation of Sri Lankan analysis of the Resolution.

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The US sponsored resolution on issues related to Sri Lanka has now been taken up by the United Nations Human Rights Commission for discussion. Shenali Waduge reviews that the UNHRC Resolution against Sri Lanka is nothing about “accountability” “pace of implementation” or any of the gibberish international statements claims to project.

If so, despite resolutions against Israel on “accountability” the UNHRC has done nothing against Israel. Instead Israel has broken ties with UNHRC completely. If every nation in the UN has equal status, or rather is supposed to have equal status, what’s all this bullying with regard to Sri Lanka?

India, the US and many other nations joined government backed INGOs/NGOs, think tanks like International Crisis Group, human rights organisations like Amnesty International, and their local mouthpieces concluding that Sri Lanka faced an unwinnable war. Their solution was nothing better than the separation of Sri Lanka along the lines of Kosovo and now with the Liberation of Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) eliminated it is the 13th amendment being used en route to the eventual separation of Sri Lanka .

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on Jan 31, 1865, and adopted on Dec 6, 1865. The Thirteenth Amendment completed the abolition of slavery in the United States, which had begun with President Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. This resolution will be discussed on March 4, 2013.”

3.If the Resolution does not, in one para the Sri Lankan states that this is gibberish and has nothing to censure’ why Does Sri Lanka oppose it?

4.He states as no action against Israel has been taken after a motion,why pass a Resolution against Sri Lanka?

He adds that all states ‘must be treated equally’?

Swamy’s argument that support of the Resolution would spur LTTE activities is like stating that hanging of terrorists and jailing of rapists would spur terrorists and Rapists!

The Text of The UNHRC Resolution on Sri Lanka.

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Promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka

The Human Rights Council,

Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant instruments,

Recalling Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 on institution building of the Human Rights Council,

Reaffirming that States must ensure that any measure taken to combat terrorism complies with their obligations under international law, in particular international human rights, refugee and humanitarian law, as applicable,

Taking note of the report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission of Sri Lanka and its findings and recommendations, and acknowledging its possible contribution to the process of national reconciliation in Sri Lanka,

Welcoming the constructive recommendations contained in the Commission’s report, including the need to credibly investigate widespread allegations of extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances, demilitarize the north of Sri Lanka, implement impartial land dispute resolution mechanisms, re-evaluate detention policies, strengthen formerly independent civil institutions, reach a political settlement on the devolution of power to the provinces, promote and protect the right of freedom of expression for all and enact rule of law reforms,

Noting with concern that the report does not adequately address serious allegations of violations of international law,

1. Calls upon the Government of Sri Lanka to implement the constructive recommendations made in the report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission and to take all necessary additional steps to fulfill its relevant legal obligations and commitment to initiate credible and independent actions to ensure justice, equity, accountability and reconciliation for all Sri Lankans;

2. Requests the Government of Sri Lanka to present, as expeditiously as possible, a comprehensive action plan detailing the steps that the Government has taken and will take to implement the recommendations made in the Commission’s report, and also to address alleged violations of international law;

3. Encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and relevant special procedures mandate holders to provide, in consultation with, and with the concurrence of, the Government of Sri Lanka, advice and technical assistance on implementing the above-mentioned steps; and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to present a report on the provision of such assistance to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-second session.”

Dr.Swamy in his maniacal aversion to Karunaidhi, must avoid echoing Sri Lanka’s senseless arguments.

In this process every on e seems to forget the issue of Tamil Genocide.

http://www.asiantribune.com/node/61912

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2013/03/04/un-resolution-on-rajapakses-war-crimes/

http://geneva.usmission.gov/2012/03/22/sri-lanka-resolution/

11 Mar 2013

Lesbians Burned,Stabbed,Suffocated ,Shot Dead ThaiLand

United Nations Human Rights Council logo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Brutal.

Instead of understanding and tolerance,this action speaks of barbarity.

Where are the UNHRC/ Activists?

Refers to:

On Feb. 24, 2012 in Loei province, Thailand, a 14-year-old girl reported to police that her 38-year-old father, who had sole custody of her since 2008, had been raping her continuously for four years because she “liked to hang out with toms” and wouldn’t listen to his instructions to stay away from them. She told police that the most recent rape had been on Feb. 11, 2012.

On Jan. 15, 2009 in Chiang Mai province, 17-year-old Orn-uma Wongprachit and her tomboy partner, 17-year-old Marisa Srisawa, were found dead. They had been stabbed over 60 times. Orn and Marisa worked at a karaoke bar to support their families. Police said they were killed by a man who was “attracted to one of the women and felt disdainful of the lesbian relationship.”

On Aug. 9, 2006 in Nakorn Ratchasima province, Kritsana Krasaewik was assaulted and burned alive by her boyfriend and his three friends for allegedly “showing off” her girlfriend to her boyfriend. At the time of the report, she had suffered burns over 50 percent of her body and was in a coma.

Since 2006 at least 15 killings of lesbians and “toms“ have been reported to the Thai police.

Some of the victims were as young as 14, with ages ranging up to early 40s. The violence, extremely brutal, included multiple stabbing, burning, suffocation, strangulation, or shootings leading to death. Many of the lesbians and toms were raped. In two cases of double homicides, men who objected to the women’s relationships killed the lesbian couples. Though the killings were verified and nearly all the victims identified, they were dismissed by the police as “love gone sour.” Recognition of hate crime motives or human rights violations have gone uninvestigated, and in most cases the offenders have not been prosecuted.

Thailand has an outstanding record of signing and ratifying seven international treaties that guarantee respect for human rights, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; and the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

While signatories to such treaties must be held accountable to the principles of human rights, clearly, signing such treaties is not enough. Upholding human rights takes more. Public education is critical. Training of first responders, including law enforcement, public health workers, teachers, and community leaders, to recognize the rights and human dignity of all — including those who are or appear to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender — is the bottom line.

http://digg.com/newsbar/worldnews/lesbians_in_thailand_burned_alive_stabbed_suffocated_strangled_or_shot_dead

Ala. civil rights museum exhibiting lesbian photos (thegrio.com)

5 Apr 2012

UNHRC Passed Resolution on Genocide of Tamils.Win for Sri Lanka.

killing of Tamil's by Sri Lanka Army — massacre of the Tamils

The Resolution moved by the US apparently censuring the Sri Lankan Government by has been passed by 24 for,15 against with eight absentions( 47 members).

India joined the countries in voting against Sri Lanka and immediately mollified Sri Lanka.

“Soon after the voting, the Indian foreign ministry put out a detailed note which placed its contentious decision in perspective.

The ministry stressed that ‘resolutions of this nature should fully respect the sovereign rights of states and contribute to Sri Lanka’s own efforts in this regard’. It pointed out that with thousands of years of cordial relations and deep rooted spiritual and cultural ties, India can’t cannot remain untouched by developments in the neighbouring country.

‘We will continue to remain engaged with Sri Lanka to take forward the process of reconciliation to secure for all its citizens a future marked by equality, dignity, justice and self-respect,’ the ministry said in New Delhi. Reminding Colombo to implement the recommendations of Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) report, India said ‘there is a window of opportunity to forge a consensual way forward towards reconciliation through a political settlement respecting all ethnic and religious groups inhabiting the nation’.

India stressed that the LLRC report recognises that ‘a political solution is imperative and that the government of Sri Lanka should provide the leadership to this political process’.

http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5946614#page=2

What are the implications?

” The fifth and final paragraph of the preamble of the US Resolution, immediately preceding its operative clauses, reads: “Noting with concern that the LLRC report does not adequately address serious allegations of violations of international law…”

It is to be noted that this provides an alibi for the Sri Lankan Government to question the other observations of the LLRC Report and may even shelve thr Report quoting this proviso!

“(1). Calls on the Government of Sri Lanka to implement the constructive recommendations in the LLRC report and take all necessary additional steps to fulfill its relevant legal obligations and commitment to initiate credible and independent actions to ensure justice, equity, accountability and reconciliation for all Sri Lankans,

(2) Requests that the Government of Sri Lanka present a comprehensive action plan as expeditiously as possible detailing the steps the Government has taken and will take to implement the LLRC recommendations and also to address alleged violations of international law.

This tantamount to the perpetrators to rectify /address issues created by them.
how illogical can one be?

‘and also violations of International Law’-this gives room for Sri Lanka to drag LTTE into the picture and muddy the water further.

“(3) “Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and relevant special procedures to provide, and the Government of Sri Lanka to accept, advice and technical assistance on implementing those steps and requests the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to present a report to the Council on the provision of such assistance at its twenty-second session.”

That is to say the Government of Sri Lanka shall advise(supposed to accept and advice UNHRC Commissioner at the same time -how contradictory?) shall use the UNHRC High Commissioner as an Agent of the Government of Sri Lanka.

Instead of UNHRC dictating terms , it will be the Sri Lankan Government that shall dictate the UNHRC.

I often hear my elder brother say ‘if you have to scold some one, scold them in such a way that it does not hurt them’

My reply ‘then what is the purpose of scolding?

What a Farce of Censuring?

http://groundviews.org/2012/03/16/the-big-lie-about-the-us-resolution/

It is really strange that SrI Lankans do not seem to realize the enormity of the Genocide and this can be seen from the Petition organised by the Sri Lankan Youth(?)

“The United States draft resolution (A/HRC/19/L.2) on Sri Lanka was tabled at the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Councilin Geneva on 8 March 2012.This resolution, is being brought up to address the alleged “war crimes” supposed to have occurred during the humanitarian mission to save innocent civilians from the terror of the inhumane terrorist organization calling itself the “Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)”.

The resolution;

1. Calls upon the Government of Sri Lanka to implement the constructive Recommendations made in the report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission and to take all necessary additional steps to fulfil its relevant legal obligations and commitment to initiate credible and independent actions to ensure justice, equity, accountability and reconciliation for all Sri Lankans;

2. Requests the Government of Sri Lanka to present, as expeditiously as possible, a comprehensive action plan detailing the steps that the Government has taken and will take to implement the recommendations made in the Commission’s report, and also to address alleged violations of international law;

3. Encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and relevant special procedures mandate holders to provide, and the Government of Sri Lanka to accept, advice and technical assistance on implementing the above-mentioned steps, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to present a report on the provision of such assistance to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-second session.

The passing of this resolution will have the effect of;

1) Breaching Article 2(7) of the Charter of the United Nations which states “Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state”

2)Completely jeopardizing the core concepts of International Law and breaching Article 2(1) of the Charter of the United Nations, which ensure the sovereign equality of all its Members, since no such resolution has been brought up against the US (sponsor of the current resolution) for allegations of Human Rights Violations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

3) Violating the sovereignty and integrity of Sri Lanka.

4) Hindering the effort of the Sri Lankan government in its reconciliation efforts to ensure equality among all races and the post war development process.

5) Taxing the resources of the United Nations since the government of Sri Lanka has already made substantial progress in implementing the recommendations of the LLRC report which makes it unnecessary for a process as recommended.

Petition:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/oppose-us-backed-unhrc-resolution-on-sri-lanka.html

Sri Lanka: Boyle warns Tamil diaspora against “Stall and Delay” diplomacy at UNHRC (tamilnet.com)

22 Mar 2012

UNHRC Meet Sri Lanka Organises March,Children Attack Tamil Supporters.

Rattled by the Documentary evidence made Public by Channel 4 telecast of a Documentary ,’Sri Lanka‘s Killing fields’ on 14 March, The Government of Sri Lanka is organising march by mobilising stooges to protest tabling the Resolution to censure Sri Lanka on Tamil Genocide in Europe.

Henry Dephane, a Civil right activist from Tamil Nadu , who has been invited by the UNHRC, recounts how Tamil Supporters were manhandled in Geneva at the meeting and the Chairman of UNHRC apologised to the delegates.( source.Junior Vikatan 21/3/12)

Not content with this, the Sri Lankan Government seems to be inciting Sinhalese against the Tamils to the extent of making Sinhalese school children attack their Tamil counterparts from Jaffna!

‘Thousands of government supporters marched on foreign embassies yesterday to call on Western countries not to table a planned resolution critical of the country at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.

Around 15,000 people marched to the US, Norwegian and German embassies, as well as the British high commission in Colombo to hand over petitions urging the resolution on alleged rights abuses committed during the country’s civil war be dropped…

The protesters condemned what they called interference from the US and other foreign powers in Sri Lanka’s internal affairs and accused the international community of trying to tarnish the country’s image at the UN meeting.

Among the marchers were the leaders of the Inter Religious Alliance for National Unity (IANU), who accused the US and international community of trying to tarnish the image of Sri Lanka.

“They have intervened in the internal affairs of other countries such as Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq and violated their human rights,” said its co-chairman Reverend Sarath Hettiarachchi.

The Methodist minister called on the government to align itself with anti-US countries to give Sri Lanka a stronger voice against its detractors.

http://www.eurasiareview.com/17032012-sri-lanka-thousands-march-on-embassies/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eurasiareview%2FVsnE+%28Eurasia+Review%29

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Nations divided at the grassroot in the island despite machinations of global powers, reflected in an episode this week in which visiting students from leading schools of Jaffna were attacked by fellow Sinhala students in a cadet camp at Randamba in the Southern Province. The Sinhala military officials in the camp, rather than attending to complaints, chose to send the Jaffna school students back, with a warning not to tell anyone what had happened to them in the camp. During the decades of war, Colombo had stopped cadet programmes in the schools of Jaffna. Now as a part of its militarisation and structural genocide programme Colombo has conceived the idea of obligatory military training to all university entrants and reintroduction of cadet programme in the leading schools of Jaffna.

Accompanied by teachers, school cadets (or rather children as they are under 18) from St. John’s College, Jaffna Hindu College, Kokkuvil Hindu College and Central College of Jaffna were among those who were taken for the cadet training camp of both Sinhala and Tamil students at the Randamba SL military facility in the Southern Province.

During the camping, verbal exchanges between the two sections snowballed into an attack on visiting Tamil students by the Sinhala students, on Tuesday.

http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/2012/03/17/sinhala-school-students-attack-visiting-tamil-counterparts-from-jaffna/

Sri Lanka: Boyle warns Tamil diaspora against “Stall and Delay” diplomacy at UNHRC (tamilnet.com)
Sri Lanka’s point unlikely to find takers in U.N. (thehindu.com)

17 Mar 2012

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