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    WORLD WATCHES HELPLESSLY GENOCIDE OF EELAM TAMILS IN VANNI BY SINHALESE
    Dr C P Thiagarajah

    TamilCanadian.com
    http://www.tamilcan adian.com/page.php?cat=145&id=5729
    April 15 2009

    Having cornered about 200000 homeless, half starved IDP (civilians) by
    herding them with the help of rocket launching gunships and multibarrel
    guns into a narrow stretch of land in the East near Puthumathalan
    called the safety zone, Sri Lanka Army (SLA) had now embarked upon
    intense attack on the 'safety zone'. It all started in the early hours
    of 12 April Sunday, targeting a place called Pachchaip-pulmoaddai,
    aiming for bifurcating and capturing the northern part of the
    'safety zone' ignoring the international calls for a ceasefire to
    avoid genocide of the Tamils, a distinctive ethnic minority.

    The Tamil community had been facing the brunt of all Sinhala government
    anti-Tamil discrimination, Human rights violations and genocide since
    independence in 1948. All the Sinhala Sri-lanka Government's (GSL)
    violence against the Tamils had been well documented. Please refer
    www.genocide.org.uk, Asian Human Rights Watch website and US-based
    Human Rights Watch (HRW) website. The million dollar question is
    how come all successive Sri-Lankan government commit this crime on
    its minorities under the watchful eyes of the democratic world that
    created the UN to protect against such atrocities.

    The core aim of The United Nations (UN) an international
    organization made up of countries of the world was to maintain
    international peace and security and international economic and social
    cooperation. Incidentally it was founded on October 24, 1945 in San
    Francisco, California and only 192 States are members of the United
    Nations. Can the situation in Sri-lanka be attributed to UN failure
    to implement or help to implement the various instruments drafted
    under its charter?

    The UN established many treaties to implement its main
    duties. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
    Genocide was adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the U.N. General
    Assembly on 9 December 1948. It came into force on 12 January 1951. The
    word 'genocide' was coined in 1944 to name a particularly shocking and
    horrific crime of violence. Genocide is the deliberate extermination
    of a racial, religious or ethnic group. Genocide, whether committed
    in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international
    law. Many countries signed the Convention, some of whom have since
    been party to genocide. Only a few people have been charged with
    genocide or complicity in it.

    In a more detailed sense, genocide means any of the following acts
    committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
    ethical, racial or religious group as such: killing members of the
    group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group,
    deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to
    bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, imposing
    measures intended to prevent births within the group, forcible
    transferring children of the group to another group etc.

    Genocide is mass murder deliberately planned and carried out by
    individuals, all of whom are responsible whether they made the plan,
    gave the order or carried out the killings, whatever its scale. In
    Sri-lanka there are mainly three who are immediately responsible for
    genocide both in words and deeds at the moment. They are President
    Mahinda Rajapakse who is always seen in native dress (probably
    borrowed from Tamils because it is the cultural dress of the Tamils)
    and a shawl, his brother Gothabaya Rajapakse and the odd one out with
    a Portuguese name military head Fonseka.

    It was believed at that time when the Genocide Act was passed that
    genocide could never happen again. Contrarily, that it had been put
    into practice so many times in one century was even more shocking.

    The following were some of the worst genocide of the last century.

    1904 NAMIBIA, 1915 ARMENIA, 1932 UKRAINE 1941-45 the HOLOCAUST,
    1975 CAMBODIA, 1982 GUATEMALA, 1994 RWANDA, 1995 BOSNIA

    In 2009 at the beginning of the early new century and millennium
    Sri-Lanka is committing unimaginable genocide of Tamils in front of
    the whole world.

    The worst deceit of GSL is to use weapons of mass destructions (WMD)
    in contravention of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) adopted by
    the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session, on 30 November
    1992, and signed and ratified by Sri-Lanka in 1993/94. It had used
    cluster bombs boldly in the presence of diplomats of all countries in
    Colombo a distance of 80 miles from the war zone. US diplomat Mr Rob
    Blake who always defended the Sinhalese government against all odds
    should have known of this horror and still remained silent without
    informing the new President Barack Obama.

    The NGO, War Without Witnesses criticised Sri-Lanka for the clandestine
    use of chemical weapons in this war against LTTE with photographic
    proof. Concerned South Asian Citizens, a forum formed to support
    ethnic Lankan Tamils stated "it was feared that the Sinhalese Army
    was continuously using thermobaric bomb, which uses a fuel-air
    explosive capable of creating pressure equal to that an atom bomb,
    for mass killings".

    In addition, there are concerns over the use of cluster munitions
    by the Sri-Lankan air force in this war because its remnants kill
    or maim civilians, including women and children, obstruct economic
    and social development, including through the loss of livelihood,
    impede post-conflict rehabilitation and reconstruction, delay or
    prevent the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, can
    negatively impact on national and international peace-building and
    humanitarian assistance efforts, and have other severe consequences
    that can persist for many years after use,

    Because of the serious drawback and grave consequences of the use
    of cluster bombs the UN stressed the duties of a state thus "with
    respect to cluster munition victims in areas under its jurisdiction
    or control shall, in accordance with applicable international
    humanitarian and human rights law, adequately provide age- and
    gender-sensitive assistance, including medical care, rehabilitation
    and psychological support, as well as provide for their social and
    economic inclusion. Each State Party shall make every effort to
    collect reliable relevant data with respect to cluster munitions
    victims". Sri-Lanka cared the least to provide any relief or medical
    aid to the victims as complained by NGOs and the state government
    medical services. Instead the GSL had imposed a press censorship and
    media blackout to hide this macabre scene for the world. Intelligently
    Tamils are exposing these atrocities in 'YouTube' videos.

    Arrogantly, GSL is violating all six human rights treaties based on
    the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that Sri-Lanka signed on
    11/09/80. They are:- International Covenant on Civil and Political
    Rights (ICCPR) International Covenant on Economic, Social and
    Cultural Rights (ICESCR) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
    International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
    Discrimination (CERD) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
    Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Convention against Torture and
    Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT),

    Barbarity is the fore runner of genocide. The brute force directed
    towards the civilians revealed this. Impunity to the perpetrators was
    another hallmark of genocide. The annihilation of the Armenians began
    on the orders Ottoman Turkish leader Taloat Pasha who gave impunity
    in his orders "Kill every Armenian, woman, child and man without
    concern for anything". The Tamil Centre for Human Rights based in Paris
    estimated that 83982 civilians including women, children and elderly
    were killed in the current conflict which the government says were
    cross fire casualties. Ethnic cleansing is the main modus operandi of
    every Sinhalese head of state from 1948 to establish Sinhala domination
    all over Sri-Lanka including the TH. They matched their words that
    they spelt out to foreign journalist and diplomats with action.

    On 11th July 1983during the 1983 pogrom J.R.Jayawardene, Sinhala
    Buddhist President of Sri Lanka then told a Daily Telegraph journalist,
    "I am not worried about the opinion of the Tamil people... now we
    cannot think of them, not about their lives or their opinion... the
    more you put pressure in the north (TH of Tamils), the happier
    the Sinhala people will be here... Really if I starve the Tamils
    out, the Sinhala people will be happy." In fact he did more than
    that. He committed genocide of the Tamils culturally, economically
    and racially. Sinhala leaders had continuously denied that the Tamil
    People were original to sri-lanka and have used that as a reason
    for denying them equal rights. Ex president Chandrika Kumaratunge
    told Sunday Times (South African newspaper) on October 1998 "only
    a minority group (referring to Tamils) is fighting for a separate
    homeland, who are not even originals to this country", Therefore they
    racially discriminated the Tamils contrary to UN principles. This is
    the bone of contention for the Tamils.

    State induced pogroms and riots saw many Tamils displaced one or more
    times since 1983. The number of Tamils displaced one or more times
    reached 100%. One third of the population had fled overseas. Many
    villages had been completely erased to the ground and High security
    zones were established. The citizens of these areas were sent into
    IDP camps. The world watched this silently without raising any
    protest. Only Miss Karen Parker HR worker and some NGOs raised their
    voices with no good result.

    The Sri-Lankan government like Joseph Stalin who caused the Ukraine
    holocaust of famine, colonized the rice bowl of the East with Sinhalese
    after killing and driving out Tamils residents. They emulated Stalin
    and conducted stage managed tour of journalist to show that nothing
    undemocratic took place in the East homeland of the Tamils.

    The Soviets bolstered their famine denial by duping members of the
    foreign press and international celebrities through carefully staged
    photo opportunities in the Soviet Union and the Ukraine. The writer
    George Bernard Shaw, along with a group of British socialites, visited
    the Soviet Union and came away with a favorable impression which he
    disseminated to the world. Former French Premier Edouard Herriot was
    given a five-day stage-managed tour of the Ukraine, viewing spruced-up
    streets in Kiev and inspecting a 'model' collective farm. He also
    came away with a favorable impression and even declared there was
    indeed no famine. Even intelligent world leaders could not identify
    the real situation when well stage managed by unscrupulous dictators.

    In Sri-Lanka the technique of genocide represented a concentrated and
    co-coordinated attack upon all the elements of Tamil nationhood. Not
    only physical genocide but also acts aimed at destroying the group's
    culture and livelihood. The Sinhalese had blocked the main A9 highway
    with embargo on some vital items needed for development such as
    cement and building materials, to starve and inconvenience the
    Tamil race in the North and the citizen there are in virtual open
    prisons. Over 2000 Hindu temples and 300 churches were destroyed by
    aerial bombing or tank fire. Children education had been affected for
    the last two decades. One third of the children are drop outs. There
    is malnutrition and the infant mortality rate had quadrupled since
    before the war. &0% of the people in the TH are below poverty line
    as their regular employment and occupation had been curtailed by army
    curfew, fights and other hazards.

    The Tamil race had come to their low ebb of their endurance. The TH is
    scorched earth now. Unless this genocide is stopped immediately under
    power vested under UN charter 39-42 military measures the genocide
    will be another blot on the current century. Historians will blame
    those in power now. Discretion is the better part of Valour.
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