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  • Tamils Rape Audio, Human Rights Watch Director Interview

    An interview of David Mepham, UK Director of Human Rights watch with Tamil net is posted here

    The way he presents the case leaves no room for the Sri Lankan Government no room to dispute the 141 page Report of Human Rights Watch on the Rape of Si Lankan Tamil Women by The Sri Lankan Armed Forces.

    This report is published both in Tamil and English at my site.

    Genocide and and rape of the Tamils in Sri Lanka
    Sexual Violations of The Tamils in Sri Lanka

    Above is the audio: if it does not work, follow the link at the end of the post.

    Rape of a Tamil Woman
    Rape of a Tamil Woman
    Brutal Killing Of The Tamils
    Brutal Killing Of The Tamils
    Gruesome Killing
    Gruesome Killing

    The Transcript.

    TamilNet: Now, this report has compiled several individual cases of violations. You have also told that there is a pattern in it and it has been conducted in a systematic manner. TamilNet and many other Tamil media organizations have been arguing that these patterns indicate genocide and that this charge must be investigated. What is your opinion on this?

    Mepham: Well on that particular issue, Human Rights Watch has not taken the view that this is genocide. We have certainly taken the view that systematic human rights abuses have been perpetrated by the Government of Sri Lanka against elements of the Tamil population. We’ve documented that in considerable detail over the years. But we’ve also…I mean we’re an independent impartial human rights organization, we’ve also documented abuses committed by the LTTE over the years as well. So our job as a human rights organization is to look at rights abuse, to document it, to expose it wherever it happens.

    We’ve been very concerned that in the final months of the Sri Lankan civil war and early 2009, the best estimates are that something like 40,000 civilians were killed, mostly at the hands of the Sri Lankan military. That was the finding of the UN Panel of Expert’s report, the report given to the UN Secretary General. There’s been a complete failure on the part of the Sri Lankan government to investigate that, to hold anybody accountable, for anyone to face justice for those crimes and that’s why Human Rights Watch and others are urging, very strongly, that there needs to be an international mechanism to investigate and hold people accountable because the so called Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission is frankly a bit of a farce. It’s not a serious body, it doesn’t have real power, it is not interested in investigating and holding anybody accountable.

    The Sri Lankan government was still cut a bit of slack by the international community on that one with people saying “well let them have their chance to sort of address this”. I think it’s pretty clear now, they are not prepared to use that mechanism or indeed any other mechanism to properly get to the bottom of what happened and the involvement of Sri Lankan military and security forces in that abuse.

    Hence, the need for more concerted international action including at the upcoming meeting and discussion on Sri Lanka at the Human Rights Council, which will take place in a few weeks time. It’s very important that governments around the world come together, and demand that there is a strong resolution and strong international follow up action, that there is an international mechanism to investigate abuses in Sri Lanka and to hold people responsible for those abuses to account.

    TamilNet: By international mechanism do you mean an independent international investigation?

    Mepham: Yes, yes. That was essentially what was called for by the UN Panel of Expert’s report, he said that the panel, three people on the panel said, there needed to..there was evidence that around 40 000 civilians may have died but there needed to be a proper international investigative mechanism, international investigation to look into what happened, to identify who was responsible for abuse, who committed the crimes and to hold those individuals accountable. And of course, the Sri Lankan government goes to great lengths to dismiss all that, to deny the abuse, to say they are not prepared for that to happen.

    It will only change if there is really concerted international pressure on Sri Lanka, of the kind that we have not seen up to this point. Which is why it is kind of particularly shocking that lots of governments around the world are going to go off to a glitzy summit in Sri Lanka in November and sit down and eat and drink with Mr. Rajapaksa, at the same time as that government has completely failed to address the problem of impunity for war crimes.

    TamilNet: Now as regards the cases of sexual abuse. Many months back last year, TamilNet came out with a feature which showed that women, especially former fighters belonging to the LTTE were being systematically targeted by the Sri Lankan state, by the military and by its police and many of these extreme cases included forcible impregnation which even led to many of them committing suicide. Do you think that this needs to be addressed very clearly at international fora?

    Mepham: Yes. All of these kinds of…I can just talk with more authority about the abuses that we’ve documented in the report we’ve launched this week. There are lots of other allegations and claims of abuse that have taken place as of the last few years. All of them need to be properly investigated. Claims of that kind that are made, it is incumbent on the Government of Sri Lanka to investigate them and hold people accountable.

    When it’s not prepared to do so, then there should be an international investigative mechanism. Because I think there is powerful evidence that this is not, as I said in the remarks at the press conference, this is not sort of random or just criminal elements. There is method in this abuse, it’s directed, it’s targeted, it’s designed for a purpose which is to intimidate and to inflict suffering and terrorize and to extract information. On that note, sexual violence of that kind is a war crime under international humanitarian law and needs to be treated as such and the people responsible for it need to be held to account.

    TamilNet: What is the responsibility of the Co-Chairs and the world powers which managed the peace process? Do you think that they have a moral and political responsibility to step in and address the question of the Tamils now?

    Mepham: Yes. They all have a responsibility. I mean, governments around the world have a responsibility to uphold international human rights, that’s what they’ve signed up to. Not only in terms of their domestic practice but in terms of the influence and pressure they bring to bear internationally. So all of these governments, particularly those that are involved in this process have an obligation to press on human rights concerns, to ensure proper accountability in the way we haven’t seen up until now and to ensure that people responsible for war crimes are held to account and that’s, there is a culture of impunity in Sri Lanka which really needs to be addressed and that’s one of the things that we are calling for as a sort of central recommendation from our report.

    * * *

    While welcoming the attempt of the HRW to document systematic sexual violence perpetrated against the Eezham Tamils by the Sri Lankan state, political observers expressed regret at the refusal to term genocide as genocide.

    More than the Tamils, the International Community of Establishments know the full nature and extent of the structural genocide being perpetrated on the Eezham Tamil nation. While organizations still try to give a picture of ‘war crimes of both sides’, what is brushed under the carpet is the war crimes of all sides, especially that of the Establishments in giving legitimacy to Sri Lanka’s genocidal war on the Eezham Tamil nation, they said.

    The Sri Lankan government will definitely deny this report as is expected from a genocide perpetrator, but it was the refusal of the ICE to recognize the nationhood, sovereignty and territoriality of the Eezham Tamils which is the core reason why Sri Lanka was able to commit such crimes with genocidal intent on the Tamil nation and foster the “culture of impunity” with abandon regime after regime, they further opined.

    Ack.Tamlinet.

    Audio Link:

    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=36082

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  • ஈழத் தமிழர் கற்பழிப்பு ,மனித உரிமைகள் கண்காணிப்பு குழு அறிக்கை

    ஈழத் தமிழ்ப் பெண்கள பலாத்காரத்திற்கு  சிங்கள  ராணுவத்தினரால்உட்படுத்தப்பட்டனர் .

    இதை ஊடகங்கள் வீடியோ மூலம் அம்பலப்படுத்தின .

    இதை ராஜபக்சேஅரசு மறுத்துள்ளது .

    ஆனால் மனித உரிமைகள் கண்காணிப்புக் குழு 141 பக்க அறிக்கை ஒன்றை வெளியிட்டுள்ளது .

    இதை மறுப்பது கடினம்.

    எனது  இந்த வலைப்பதிவின் மூலம், தமிழாக்கத்தை வெளியிடுகிறேன்.

    ஈழத் தமிழரஅவலத்தையும் ,சிங்கள அரசினஇன வெறித் தாக்குதலையும்,மற்றும் போர்குற்ற ஆவணங்களையும் ,Sri Lanka ,எனும் படுகையில் காண்க .

    மனித உரிமைகள் கண்காணிப்பு அறிக்கை. (Human Rights Watch Report)

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    [இலண்டன் (London)] – தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகள் (எல்ரீரீஈ) என சந்தேகிக்கப்பட்ட உறுப்பினர்களையும் அதன் ஆதரவாளர்களையும் துன்புறுத்துவதற்கு இலங்கையின் ஆயுதப் படைகள் பாலியல் வல்லுறவையும் ஏனைய பாலியல் வன்முறைகளையும் பிரயோகித்து வந்துள்ளதாக மனித உரிமைகள் கண்காணிப்புக் குழு (Human Rights Watch)இன்று வெளியிட்ட ஒரு அறிக்கையில் குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளது. 2009 ஆம் ஆண்டு மே மாதம் முடிவடைந்த ஆயுதப் போராட்டத்தின் போது சிறையில் பரந்தளவில் பாலியல் வல்லுறவுகள்  நிகழ்ந்து வந்தன எனவும், அதே வேளையில் அரசியல் நோக்குடனான பாலியல் வன்முறைகள் இராணுவத்தினாலும் போலீஸ் படையினாலும் தொடர்ந்தும் மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்டு வருகின்றது எனவும் மனித உரிமைகள் கண்காணிப்புக் குழு கண்டறிந்தது.

    “‘நாங்கள் உங்களுக்கு ஒரு பாடம் புகட்டுவோம்’: இலங்கை ஆயுதப் படைகளின் மூலம் தமிழ் மக்களுக்கு எதிராக நிகழ்த்தப்பட்ட பாலியியல் வன்முறை’” என்ற 144 பக்க அறிக்கையானது இலங்கை முழுவதிலுமுள்ள உத்தியோகபூர்வமான மற்றும் இரகசியமான தடுப்பு முகாம்களில் 2006-2012 ஆம் ஆண்டு வரை நிகழ்ந்த பாலியல் வல்லுறவுகள் மற்றும் பாலியல் துஷ்பிரயோகம் ஆகியவற்றுக்கு எதிரான 75 பேர்களின் குற்றச்சாட்டுக்கள் பற்றிய விரிவான விபரங்களை தருகின்றது. மனித உரிமைகள் கண்காணிப்புக் குழு ஆவணப்படுத்திய விடயங்களில், பல நாட்களாக அடிக்கடி பல நபர்களினாலும், இராணுவத்தினாலும், போலீஸ் படையினாலும், மற்றும் அடிக்கடி பங்குகொள்ளுகின்ற அரசாங்க சார்பு துணை இராணுவக் குழுக்களினாலும் தமிழ் ஆண்களும் பெண்களும் பாலியல் வல்லுறவுக்கு உட்படுத்தப்பட்டு சித்திரவதை செய்யப் பட்டிருப்பதாகப் பதிவாகியிருக்கின்றது.

    “இலங்கையின் பாதுகாப்புப் படைகள் கூறவியலாத எண்ணிக்கை அளவுக்கு சிறையில் தமிழ் ஆண்களையும் பெண்களையும் பாலியல் வல்லுறவுக்கு உட்படுத்தி சித்திரவதைக்கு உட்படுத்தியுள்ளனர்” என மனித உரிமைகள் கண்காணிப்புக் குழுவின் ஆசிய பிராந்தியத்திற்கான பணிப்பாளர் ப்ராட் அடம்ஸ் (Brad Adams) கூறினார். “இவை சாதாரண யுத்தகால அட்டூழியங்கள் அல்ல, தற்பொழுதும் அந்த அட்டூழியச் செயல்கள் தொடர்ந்தும் நிகழ்ந்து வருவதோடு, எல்ரீரீஈ தரப்புடன் தொடர்பு இருப்பதாக சந்தேகத்தின் பேரில் கைது செய்யப்படும் ஒவ்வொரு தமிழ் ஆணையும் பெண்ணையும் இது கடும் ஆபத்தில் தள்ளிவிடுவதாக அமைகின்றது”.

    “நாங்கள் உங்களுக்கு ஒரு பாடம் புகட்டுவோம்”: இல் இருந்து பெறப்பட்டவை

    தலைப்பெழுத்துக்கள் அனைத்தும் புனைப்பெயர்களாகவும் நபரின் உண்மையான பெயருக்கு எந்தவிதமான தொடர்பும் இல்லாததாகவும் இடப்பட்டுள்ளன.

    ஜே எச் (JH) என்பவரின் சம்பவம்

    ஜே எச் (JH) என்பவர் 23 வயதுடைய ஒரு தமிழர். இவர் ஐக்கிய இராச்சியத்தில் கல்வி கற்றுக்கொண்டிருந்த நேரம் 2012 ஆம் ஆண்டு ஆகஸ்ட் மாதத்தில் குடும்பம் சார்ந்த காரணங்களுக்காக கொழும்புக்குத் திரும்பினார். ஒரு மாதம் கழிந்த பின்னர், வேலை விட்டு வீட்டிற்குத் திரும்பிக்கொண்டிருந்த நேரத்தில், ஒரு வெள்ளை வேனில் வந்த பலர் அதிலிருந்து குதித்தார்கள். ஒரு விசாரணைக்கு தான் தேவைப்படுவதாகக் கூறி, அவர்கள் தனது கண்களைக் கட்டி, ஒரு மணித்தியாலத்திற்கும் அதிகமான நேரம் பயணித்து, தெரியாத ஒரு இடத்திற்கு தன்னை எடுத்துச்சென்றதாக அவர் மனித உரிமைகள் கண்காணிப்புக் குழுவிடம் கூறினார்:

    கட்டியிருந்த எனது கண்களை அவர்கள் அவிழ்த்துவிட்ட [போது] நான் அங்கு ஏனைய நான்கு நபர்கள் இருந்த ஒரு அறையைக் கண்டேன். நான் ஒரு நாற்காலியில் கட்டப்பட்டு எல்ரீரீஈ தரப்புடன் எனக்கிருக்கும் தொடர்புகள் பற்றியும் அண்மையில் வெளிநாட்டிற்குசென்ற காரணம் பற்றியும் விசாரிக்கப்பட்டேன். அவர்கள் எனது ஆடைகளை உரிந்து என்னை அடிக்கத் தொடங்கினார்கள். நான் மின்சாரக் கம்பிகளினால் அடிக்கப்பட்டு, எரியும் சிகரட்டுக்களினால் சூடுவைக்கப்பட்டு, பெற்றோல் திணிக்கப்பட்ட ஒரு பொலித்தின் உறையைக் கொண்டு மூச்சுத்திணறடிக்கப்பட்டேன். பின்னர் அந்த இரவு, நான் ஒரு சிறிய அறையில் அடைக்கப்பட்டேன். தொடர்ச்சியாக மூன்று நாட்கள் நான் பாலியல் வல்லுறவுக்கு உட்படுத்தப்பட்டு சித்திரவதை செய்யப்பட்டேன். முதலாவது இரவு, ஒருவர் தனியாக வந்து என்னை குதவழியாகப் பாலியலுறவுக்கு உட்படுத்தினார். இரண்டாம் மற்றும் மூன்றாம் நாள் இரவுகளில், இரண்டு பேர் எனது அறைக்கு வந்தார்கள். அவர்கள் என்னை குதவழியாகப் பாலியலுறவுக்கு உட்படுத்திவிட்டு அவர்களுடன் வாய்வழிப் பாலியல் உறவுக்கும் என்னை வற்புறுத்தினார்கள். இந்தப் பாலியல் வல்லுறவுகளின் பின்னர் எல்ரீரீஈ தரப்புடன் எனக்கு தொடர்புகளிருப்பதாக ஒப்புக்கொண்டு ஒரு வாக்குமூலத்தில் நான் கையொப்பமிட்டேன்.

    ரீ ஜே (TJ ) என்பவரின் சம்பவம்

    ரீ ஜே (TJ ) என்பவர் 19 வயதுடைய ஒருவர். இவர் ஐக்கிய இராச்சியத்தில் தனது கற்கைகளைப் பூர்த்திசெய்து விட்டு இலங்கைக்குத் திரும்பியவர். 2012 ஆம் ஆண்டு ஆகஸ்ட் மாதம் ஒரு மாலை நேரத்தில், ரீ ஜே (TJ ) வவுனியாவில் (Vavuniya) ஒரு நண்பரைச் சந்தித்து விட்டு வீடு திரும்பிய நேரத்தில் அவருக்கு அருகில் ஒரு வெள்ளை வேனை நிறுத்தி சிவில் உடைகளை அணிந்திருந்த ஏறக்குறைய ஐந்து அல்லது ஆறு நபர்கள் அதிலிருந்து குதித்தார்கள். அவர்கள் ரீ ஜே (TJ ) ஐ பலவந்தமாக இழுத்து வேனினுள் தள்ளி, அவரின் கண்களைக் கட்டி, தெரியாத ஒரு இடத்திற்கு அவரை கொண்டுசென்றார்கள் என அவர் மனித உரிமைகள் கண்காணிப்புக் குழுவிடம் கூறினார்:

    கட்டியிருந்த எனது கண்களை அவர்கள் அவிழ்த்துவிட்ட போது நான் ஒரு அறையில் இருப்பதைக் கண்டேன். அங்கு ஐந்து பேர் இருந்தனர். அவர்களில் ஒருவர் இராணுவ சீருடையில் காணப்பட்டார். ஐக்கிய இராச்சியத்தில் எல்ரீரீஈ தரப்புடன் எனக்குள்ள அலுவல் பற்றி அவர்கள் என்னிடம் விசாரிக்கத் தொடங்கினார்கள். வெளிநாட்டில் எல்ரீரீஈ தரப்புடன் எனக்கிருக்கின்ற தொடர்புகள் பற்றி அவர்கள் என்னிடம் வினவினார்கள். நான் பதிலளிக்கவில்லை. அவர்கள் என்னைத் துன்புறுத்தத் தொடங்கினார்கள். முதலில் அறையப்பட்டும் குத்தப்பட்டும் நான் தாக்கப்பட்டேன். அப்போது அவர்கள் என்னைக் கடுமையாகத் துன்புறுத்தத் தொடங்கினார்கள். எனக்கு தடிகளால் அடிக்கப்பட்டு, எரியும் சிக்கரெட்டுக்களால் சூடுவைக்கப்பட்டதுடன் எனது தலை ஒரு நீர் பீப்பாயினுள் அமிழ்த்தப்பட்டது. கேள்விகள் கேட்கப்பட்ட நேரத்தில் உடைகள் உரியப்பட்டு நிர்வாணமாக்கப்பட்டேன்’.

    மேல் விவரங்களுக்கு ;

    http://www.hrw.org/node/113915

    Rape of Tamils in Sri Lanka
    Rape of Tamils in Sri Lanka

    “Translated dialog from Ch-4 Video

    Statements of Sri Lanka soldiers

    “Motherfuckin Tiger wankers!”
    (inaudible)
    “Load the ammo” “Show your face”
    “Hey… pose with the bodies”

    –then while showing bodies of what appear to be dead Tamil Tiger child soldiers—

    “Hey look up” (Soldier looks at camera and makes grunting sound)

    —then during the loading of female bodies–

    “Bring that body… Another one”
    “eh?”
    “She is moaning now”
    “Moaning in your head?”
    “Still moaning?”
    “Bring that one”
    “This one has the best figure”
    “Eh?”
    “This one has the best figure”

    —We have more footage, taken elsewhere, which suggests systematic murder, abuse and sexual violence—

    “She seems like someone who’s newly joined”
    “She looks like someone’s clerk”
    “Look how many pencils and pens she’s got”
    “I really want to cut her tits off”
    “…if no one was around”

    http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march022012/lanka-genocide-tk.php

  • Genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils Banned Photos Photo Essay

    If this is not Genocide, what else is?

     

    Photos provided by Muthamizh Vendhan for Salem-News.com PARENTAL DISCRETION SUGGESTE
    Killing Of Tamils in Sri Photos provided by Muthamizh Vendhan for Salem-News.com PARENTAL DISCRETION SUGGESTELanka.
    Tamils Killing by Sri Lanka
    Tamils Killing by Sri Lanka

     

    Murder Of Tamils
    Murder Of Tamils
    Killing of Tamils
    Killing of Tamils

     

    Massacre of Tamils
    Massacre of Tamils
    Genocide of Tamils
    Genocide of Tamils

     

    Genocide of Tamils
    Genocide of Tamils
    Mass Murder of Tamils
    Mass Murder of Tamils
    Child Watching butchered in Sri Lanka
    Child Watching butchered in Sri Lanka

    For more.

    Link.

    http://www.salem-news.com/articles/august072010/srilanka-violence-mv.php

  • Si Lankan Tamils Killing Fields Full Video

    I post here the full video of the Killing Files  by Channel 4

    This is in addition to the excerpts I posted in 2011, where the full Video was not available  then

    Initially there were restrictions.

    This is necessitated by the  new evidence showing that LTTE Chief Prabhakaran‘s son Balachandran Prabhakaran was killed in cold blood after being offered snacks.

    Video analysis has proved the authenticity of this and Sri Lanka can not escape under the ruse that it is doctored.

    Curiously till the writing of this post here are no comment from the Government of Sri Lanka.

    The Posts of mine on Sri Lankan Tamils is to present and document the atrocities in one place as I have not been able to find a source that contains all the information relating to Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide of the Tamils in Sri Lanka.

    Here is the Full Video of the Killing of the Tamils by Channel 4.

    ”

    One of the most graphic television documentaries ever shown in the United Kingdom, this documentary outlines some of the atrocities that were committed during the final months of the Sri Lankan civil war and features amateur video footage from the conflict zone filmed by civilians and Sri Lankan soldiers.

    Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers.

    The video filmed by civilians included harrowing scenes during and after intense shelling of civilian targets, including hospitals, by the Sri Lankan military. The trophy video filmed by Sri Lankan soldiers showed disturbing scenes of blindfolded victims being executed and dead bodies of naked women being dragged onto trucks by soldiers as they made lewd remarks about the victims.

    The documentary also included interviews with civilians who managed to survive the conflict, United Nations staff based in Sri Lanka during the conflict, human rights organizations and and international law expert. The documentary was made by ITN Productions and presented by Jon Snow, the main anchor on Channel 4 News. The Sri Lankan government has denounced the documentary as a fake.”

    http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/sri-lankas-killing-fields/

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  • Ethnic Cleansing, Killing of Tamils SriLanka Evidence

    Though protesting vociferously Sri Lanka has been following a Policy of Ethnic Cleansing and Killing of the Tamils in that country.

    This started around 1962, during Bandaranaike Region.

    The came the Agreement, Sirimavo Bandaranaike reign.

    The massacre of Tamils began early.

    Through twists and turns right from Bandaranaike to Jayawardene ,Chandrika Kumaratunga, Premadasa to Rakapakshe the ethnic cleansing remain unabated,

    History of Ethnic cleansing.

    Jayaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam during his arrest in 2008. Tissainayagam was a Tamil journalist and writer specialising in the longstanding conflict between the Sinhala and Tamils in Sri Lanka and was a vocal exponent against the Sri Lankan government. On March 7th 2008, he was arrested by the Terrorism Investigation Division of the Sri Lanka Police, held for 6 months without charge and finally sentenced to 20 years hard labor. Due to the international outcry over the ethnic cleansing undertaken on the island by the Rajapaksa regime, and his sentence being overturned at the court of appeal, he was released on 11th January 2010. In a move typical of the public relations element of the Rajapaksa government, the journalist was then pardoned by Rajapaksa on May 3rd 2010.
    Jayaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam during his arrest in 2008. Tissainayagam was a Tamil journalist and writer specialising in the longstanding conflict between the Sinhala and Tamils in Sri Lanka and was a vocal exponent against the Sri Lankan government. On March 7th 2008, he was arrested by the Terrorism Investigation Division of the Sri Lanka Police, held for 6 months without charge and finally sentenced to 20 years hard labor. Due to the international outcry over the ethnic cleansing undertaken on the island by the Rajapaksa regime, and his sentence being overturned at the court of appeal, he was released on 11th January 2010. In a move typical of the public relations element of the Rajapaksa government, the journalist was then pardoned by Rajapaksa on May 3rd 2010.
    In this typical scene witnessed regularly throughout history, large migrations of civilians are seen fleeing nationalist violence in a desperate attempt to escape death. This type of migration had been a pre-planned element in the Rajapaksa nationalist doctrine and came about as a direct result of an upswing in military weapons supply and financial funding from China and the United States.
    In this typical scene witnessed regularly throughout history, large migrations of civilians are seen fleeing nationalist violence in a desperate attempt to escape death. This type of migration had been a pre-planned element in the Rajapaksa nationalist doctrine and came about as a direct result of an upswing in military weapons supply and financial funding from China and the United States.

    Since Sri Lanka gained independence from Britain in 1948, relations between the majority Sinhalese and minority Tamil communities have been strained. Rising ethnic and political tensions, along with ethnic riots and pogroms in 1956, 1958, 1977, 1981 and 1983, led to the formation and strengthening of militant groups advocating independence for Tamils. The ensuing Sri Lankan Civil War has resulted in the deaths of more than 70,000 people and the forced disappearance of thousands of others.

    One-third of Sri Lankan Tamils now live outside Sri Lanka. While there was significant migration during the British colonial period, the civil war that began in 1983 led to more than 800,000 Tamils being forced from their homes within Sri Lanka, and many have left the country for destinations such as Canada, India and Europe.

    Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka
    Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka

    Estimates varying from less than 10000,[16] to 40,000 Sri Lankan Tamils were reportedly killed in the final weeks of the military victory over Tamil rebels in 2009 as the Tamil Tigers took Tamil civilians as human shields, according to the UN,[17] but the end of the civil war has not improved conditions in Sri Lanka,[18] with press freedom not being restored[19] and judiciary coming under political control.[20] Sri Lankan Tamils continue to seek refuge in countries like Canada and Australia.[21][22] The International Organisation for Migration and the Australian government have declared Tamil refugees as economic migrants.[23] Canada has tightened controls on their refugee program due to various abuses within the Canadian refugee system..[24] A Canadian government survey found that over 70% of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees have gone back to Sri Lanka for holidays raising concerns over the legitimacy of their refugee claims.[25](Wiki)

    Despite denials the evidence is there for every one to see from Politicians , Bureaucrats and people on the ground.

    The Rhetoric of Ethnic cleansing.

    As the policy of ethnic cleansing came to its logical military conclusion, Tamils found themselves locked into concentration camps on the island and subject to sexual violence and organised abuse by prison guards. Only through the international public community were some of these people eventually allowed to leave, many having gone into crippling poverty.
    As the policy of ethnic cleansing came to its logical military conclusion, Tamils found themselves locked into concentration camps on the island and subject to sexual violence and organised abuse by prison guards. Only through the international public community were some of these people eventually allowed to leave, many having gone into crippling poverty.
    Mass Killing of Tamils in Sri Lanka
    Mass Killing of Tamils in Sri Lanka

    The rhetoric of extremism in the globalised security environment that now exists is surprisingly malformed, and equally surprisingly influential. In Sri Lanka, the operation to bring about the ethnic cleansing of the Tamils was initially formed around a humanitarian interventionist pole8 alongside a domestic security intention. This initial rhetoric was criticised at the time as being ‘unlikely’ but due to the globalised posture of governments and media around the world in the post 9/11 event phase, the narrative unusually succeeded in its efforts.

    In the 2008 video below, this rhetoric can be seen with a BBC interview carried out with a Sri Lankan government employee, Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha [Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP)]. In this interview, the scope of the nationalist policy against the Tamils can be seen in its formation alongside the belligerence of the British Broadcasting Corporation as it existed at the time.

    Proof.

    In this second interview again for the BBC conducted in 2011 after the full weight of the ethnic cleansing had become known across the world, Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha in his capacity as government coordinator of the peace process, routinely defaults to defending the nationalist regime of Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka and further continues to disrupt and retard the interviewers questioning about the massacre in Sri Lanka. He calls into question the motives of the ‘human rights industry’, disambiguates unambiguous questioning given by the interviewer, persistently derails and deviates away from line of enquiry and promotes and demotes salient information in order to evade complicity. This approach is almost identical to his motif in the first interview and reveals persuasive evidence of government rhetoric taking on academic form.

    Evasion

    For many around the world, the efficacy of international law is far from straightforward and given to inherent subjectivity. In an age in which human rights abuses abound throughout all the political environments of the world, justice for those who have been subject to ethnic violence is a long and arduous process with varying chance of realistic success. No matter what weight of evidence exists, no matter how clean the case for prosecution, no matter how ‘persuasive’ the charge given that evidence, international law for many abruptly halts when in collision with the largest of its sponsors. This is undoubtedly true.

    For those in Rajapaksa’s regime, international law is a relative device that can be evaded, but only with considerable prior planning and foresight. For the most part, the personal ideology of Rajapaksa in the form of his own strident nationalism has simply arrived at an end point having reached its logical conclusion. There is evidence that Rajapaksa has been a long-time advocate10of nationalist ideology and his appearance at this point in time simply denotes a man who has seen his time come. It is here, that the fundamental nature of the war against the non-state actor, also known as the so called ‘War on Terror’ is revealed for what it is, a liberation for the tyrant…and a prison for his fool.

    The rhetoric now engaged in by the Rajapaksa nationalists is one in which considerable faith has been placed in the United States, China and India. These three actors constitute the vast bulk of delegates to the United Nations and hold most influence at the International Criminal Court [ICC]. Rajapaksa and his brother Lieutenant Colonel Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa, have clearly made a calculated appraisal about their fortunes in relation to these three nations and have clearly concluded that Sri Lanka’s geo-strategic political position will successfully renovate international public opinion leading to a general failure of accountability at the UN.

    Acknowledgements.

    http://www.terencebunch.co.uk/articles/extremism-ethnic-cleansing-and-nationalist-rhetoric-in-sri-lanka/

    1. My blogs filed under Sri Lanka, Videos,Tamils

    2. Global Terrorism: 35,000 Worldwide Convicted For Terror Offenses Since September 11 Attacks by MARTHA MENDOZA [AP] 09/03/11 Huffingdon Post

    3. Sri Lanka’s Eastern Provincial Council Convenes; Muslim-tamil Tensions High. US Embassy Colombo – 5th June 2008. Classified By: Charge d’Affaires James R. Moore for reasons: 1.4(b,d). Wikileaks

    4. Sri Lanka War Crimes Evidence. WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT. YouTube

    5. Sri Lanka’s killing fields. Channel 4, London. Channel 4, London, UK.

    6. Sri Lanka’s killing fields: War Crimes Unpunished. Channel 4, London. Channel 4, London, UK.

    7. “India Worries as China Builds Ports in South Asia.” by VIKAS BAJAJ – February 15th 2010. New York Times, US. New York Times.

    8. HUMANITARIAN OPERATION FACTUAL ANALYSIS JULY 2006 – MAY 2009. Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence. Published July 2011. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA, MINISTRY OF DEFENCE. July 2011.

    9.”Understanding Sri Lanka’s defeat of the Tamil Tigers” by Major Niel A. Smith, USA, Executive Officer of 5-1 Cavalry at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. “Understanding Sri Lanka’s defeat of the Tamil Tigers”

    10.”Destroy India Says Rajapakse in Interview – 1988″. “Understanding Sri Lanka’s defeat of the Tamil Tigers”

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