The Permanent People’s Tribunal , an international body has indicted Sri Lanka as Guilty of war crimes in killing the Tamils, under the guise of ending Terrorism in the Island Nation.
Channel 4 exposed the gruesome killing of innocent Tamilians point-blank, children and women included.
Earlier Human Right Watch has had the same view.
Recently David Cameron, PM, UK, met with the survivors of the Genocide when he attended the CHOGM Summit in Colombo.
“After an assessment of evidences presented by eyewitnesses and experts, judges of the Permanent People’s Tribunal reached unanimous consensus that the Sri Lankan state was guilty of crimes of genocide against the Eezham Tamils and that the genocide is continuing even after the end of the military operations against the LTTE. Concluding the four day session with a press conference at Bremen on Tuesday, the judges also noted that the Sri Lankan military did not have capacity to commit genocide on its own and that it was supported by the UK-USA-India axis. 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.”
The PPT Report on Tamils Killing by Sri Lanka.
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The Second Session of the Peoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka concluded today in Bremen, Germany, with
the presentation of its verdict. The panel of eleven judges unanimously found Sri Lanka guilty of the
crime of genocide against the Eelam Tamil people, and that this crime continues today.
The Tribunal specified that the victims are in this case the Eelam Tamils as a national group.
The Tribunal found that genocide against the Eelam Tamil group has not yet achieved the total
destruction of their identity. The genocidal coordinated plan of actions reached its climax on May 2009,
but it is clear that the Sri Lanka Government project to erase the Eelam Tamil identity, corroborated by
the above mentioned conduct, shows that genocide is a process and that process is ongoing. The
genocidal strategy changed once the perpetrators gained control of the territory. The killings are being
transformed into other forms of conduct, but the intention to destroy the group and its identity remains
and continues, through causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the Eelam Tamil group…
The Tribunal considers that the proofs established, beyond any reasonable doubt that the following acts
were committed by the Government of Sri Lanka
(a) Killing members of the group, which includes massacres, indiscriminate shelling, the strategy of
herding civilians into so‐called “No Fire Zones” for the purpose of massive killings, targeted assassinations
of outspoken Eelam Tamil civil leaders who were capable of articulating the Sri Lankan genocide project
to the outside world
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, including
acts of torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, sexual violence including rape, interrogations
combined with beatings, threats of death, and harm that damages health or causes disfigurement
or injury.
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
in whole or in part, including
* expulsions of the victims from their homes, * seizures of private lands, * declaring vast areas as military
High Security Zone (HSZ) to facilitate the military acquisition of Tamil land
Further, the Tribunal considered evidence related to
(d) Imposingmeasuresintended to prevent births within the group
including forced sterilization and coerced contraception of Eelam Tamil women. Further investigation is
required on the extent of this practice in other regions before a determination is made on whether these
could be considered genocidal acts.
The UK and USA were found to be guilty of complicity in the crime of genocide, including
‐‐ complicity by procuring means, such as weapons, instruments or any other means, used to commit
genocide, with the accomplice knowing that such means would be used for such a purpose;
‐‐ complicity by knowingly aiding or abetting a perpetrator of a genocide in the planning or enabling acts
thereof;
Recognizing that the Sri Lankan state alone did not have the capacity to achieve their genocidal
ambitions, and given the evidence presented, the Tribunal believes that the UK, the USA and India are
guilty of complicity in genocide. However, given time constraints the Tribunal decided to withhold its
decision pending the consideration of additional evidence as to the possibility that India, as well as other
States, are indeed guilty of complicity in the crime of genocide against the Eelam Tamils.
More than 30 direct eye‐witnesses and experts testified in support of the Prosecution’s case, providing
evidence on various alleged crimes that could be determined to constitute the crime of genocide, as well
as on the legal and historical background and the charges of complicity.
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As to India’s Complicity in this Genocide, a Post follows.
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