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some idiots Criticize Clinton over SL statement ,
these so called idiots have formed a association called Sri Lanka Freedom Lawyers Association (SLFLA)
these idiots yet to comment on the freedom of srilanka and its citizens.
1, so far police have not questioned a man openly said his men had took care of Lasantha he openly issue a threat to another journalist.
2,There are tens of thousand tamil young men and womens were abducted wealthy tamils were collected with large randsom and got released while tens of thousands young men were abducted and their body parts were stolen and they were killed.
3, illegal detention of hundreds of thousand innocent tamils. including childrens and elderly.
4, even today army are allowed to commit every crimes wearing a mask.
5, tens of thousands young men were takenaway from the camps and salughtered.
6,tamil businesses are looted by sinhala nazi
7,with emergency law army was given free hand to arrest any young men and women and rape and killed.
8, hundreds of under aged girls were abducted by security forces from the IDP camps. to date no news on them. are they being sold to prostituting ring?
9, hundreds of thousands tamils homes are bombed and distroyed by sinhala nazi forces.
10, world knew about sinhala nazi forces, these forces have not only commited rape in tamils homeland. these animals raped underaged girls in haity,
and these idiots lawyers association with short memory forgotton that UN had send these rapist back home.
as usual sinhala nazis denied but the world know the truth.
in the last stage of war tens of thousands women were raped by sinhala nazi forces
why it was not reported in the media?
1,sinhala nazis have killed most of the girls they raped, and others possibly still in any custody.
2,one may question why the media is not allowed in the Concentration camps because of this rape and brutality of sinhala nazis will get out on the media.
3,CID is being sent into the camps to look for rape victims and they are taken away and slaughtered by nazi forces.
4, so many people had heard screeming noices when they walk into sinhala nazi side,
noices were coming from closed trucks and close building and the area with heavily armed army and people could not help the girls and in many cases after the screeming a shot and it no noice after that.
these are thousands of people had withnessed this. this will come out when people come out.
but sinhala nazis aim is to kill all these people who withnessed their crimes.
according to reports sinhala nazis have killed as much as 180,000 people from this concentration camps.
this idi0ts lawyers association trying to protect the criminals for money. as it is well known lawyers are for money. not for justice.
*&%$ ^ criticize Clinton over SL statement
Monday, 05 October 2009
While categorically rejecting the accusation leveled against the Security Forces, the Sri Lanka Freedom Lawyers Association (SLFLA) has condemned the statement made by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton stating that it never expected Clinton to make such detrimental statements without proper facts about the most disciplined Sri Lankan Armed Forces.
The Secretary to the Colombo branch of the Sri Lanka Freedom Lawyers Association Bandula Wellala stated that the Association would express their concern to the UN in writing. Further the Association would take measures to enlighten the international organizations on the utmost restraint and the discipline with which the Sri Lankan Security Forces acted during the humanitarian operation, local newspaper Daily News reported on Monday.
He also accused the US Secretary of State claiming that Clinton is challenging the sovereign rights of Sri Lanka by making baseless allegations against the Government of Sri Lanka and the Security Forces.
The Sri Lankan Forces not only demonstrated how terrorism should be eradicated but also how an operation must be conducted humanely. Our soldiers carried a gun in one hand and the Human Rights Convention in the other. There were no charges of rape levelled against the Sri Lankan Security Forces. Wellala noted.
The Association implored the Government of Sri Lanka to resist any such attempts to damage the image of the Security Forces with fixed resolve and effective action and safeguard the sovereignty and integrity of the nation and the reputation of the Security Forces.
The Association also reminded Hillary Clinton that she had forgotten the rape committed by American Armies in Vietnam and Iraq, the newspaper reported quoting Wellala.
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D. B. S. Jeyaraj, 8 July 2001
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The Sri Lankan security forces have continued to commit serious human rights abuses, sexual violence, in the context of the 17 year armed conflict against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Sri Lankan Police have also repeatedly committed rape and other sexual abuse in the course of the fighting . - Report by UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women 22 Dec 2000
Eleven minority community political parties in Sri Lanka called for a protest demonstration held on Friday, 6 July 2001. Five of these parties represent the Sri Lankan Tamils and another five the Tamils of Indian descent while the eleventh is a Muslim Party. The objective of these parties in organizing this demonstration is to protest and draw attention to the disturbing rise of sexual violence against Tamil speaking women by personnel attached to the Armed Forces, Police and Para Military Outfits. Even though the political parties concerned are by no means the premier representative organizations of the people they claim to serve, the call for a protest was however enthusiastically received due to the serious timeliness of the issue at hand.
As a result, the protest was a near total success in the North and East with shops remaining closed, Schools being empty and transport at a standstill. The undergrads and senior students in the N- E spearheaded the campaign though few of them support the parties that called for it. The Hill Country saw Plantation workers keeping away from work for two hours and holding protest meetings. Black flags dotted the estate landscape. In Colombo there was a lunch hour demonstration. Several shops and businesses remained closed for a short period. According to a spokesperson from a Tamil political party, the protest was an overwhelming success because of popular people support.
The phenomenon of Tamil women being sexually assaulted by defence personnel claiming to fight and uphold the unity and territorial integrity of Sri Lanka is nothing new. Complaints and protests have been raised in various foras. Several International Organizations, Tamil Politicians and Newspapers have highlighted these happenings very often. Although the 1996-98 period saw a lot of such incidents being reported, 1999 and 2000 had registered an all time low. This does not necessarily mean that such violence had ceased but was nevertheless, an indicator that it was on the decline. Some even attributed it to the intensive Human Rights Education being imparted to the Defence Personnel. This complacent mood however was shattered by events of the past week when the spectre of sexual assaults on Tamil women was resurrected again in Colombo.
Unlimited powers
The protest campaign was triggered off by a horrible incident on June 24 at a checkpoint in Maradana. A 28-year-old Tamil woman of Indian origin from Badulla was working as cashier at a hotel in Fort. The mother of two was staying at a lodge in Maradana. After work she walked home passing through the checkpoint manned by Police and Army personnel. Her address and name was noted by the cops and allowed to pass. Later the Policemen went to her residence in the night and forced her under threat of arrest, to come to the checkpoint. Since the current security situation enables Security Personnel to wield unlimited power over any Tamil suspect, the woman reluctantly agreed. She was gang raped by the cops and soldiers. She was warned under threat of death to keep quiet. The victim however told the lodge owner who took her to the Maradana Police who to their credit took immediate action. Three Army and three Police personnel have been arrested.
The revulsion felt by all decent people of the country at the incident was great. An incident related by a Sunday Newspaper illustrates this mindset. A 103 bus plying between Fort and Borella through Maradana had pulled up at this checkpoint. Someone in the vehicle had shouted out this is the place where they gang-raped that woman . The passengers had spontaneously shouted derisively and hooted in typical Lankan fashion at those manning that checkpoint. Although the personnel stationed there had nothing to do with the deplorable incident, the men had hung their heads shamefacedly and retreated to their hut. The 11 party call for a protest was sparked off by this, but extended in general, to the entire phenomenon of Tamil women being the targets of sexual violence over the past years.
The list of sexual offences allegedly perpetrated against Tamil womeni by members of the Armed Forces and Police is compiled from news reports in the Tamil language newspapers and from additional particulars supplied by Human Rights Organizations engaged in gender issues.The list is neither representative nor exhaustive. it is crucial to note that these incidents are only the tip of the iceberg because several incidents have been suppressed by the authorities while a vast number of cases have not been reported to the authorities or organizations concerned about such violations.
This reluctance to reveal details of such instances is due to fear of reprisals and social ostracization. Most perpetrators of sexual offences are from the Police, Armed Forces or para-militaries. Therefore, victims are mortally afraid of the consequences if and when complaints are made. The cultural traditions of the community are yet to evolve an acceptance and accommodativeness of such violations. Hence, the suffering in silence. Despite these shortcomings the list does serve as an index to gauge the scope and scale of this terrible phenomenon.
The above-mentioned list provides an insight into this unceasing problem. The report submitted to the UN Commission on Human Rights early this year by the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences highlights the cases of violence against women in times of armed conflict on a country by country basis. A relevant extract is The Sri Lankan Security Forces have continued to commit serious human rights abuses, sexual violence, in the context of the 17 year armed conflict against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Sri Lankan Police have also repeatedly committed rape and other sexual abuse in the course of the fighting .
Tamil women have in the North and East generally borne the brunt of these sexual assaults. There have been however some instances of Tamil speaking Muslim women also being victimised. A Muslim woman from Ottamavadi was raped in front of her husband by Soldiers. Two other documented cases are from Eravur. A 28 year old woman, Noor Lebbai Sithie Umma was raped and murdered by an armed para -Military group affiliated to the army. Likewise Ali Muhammath Athabia of Eravur was tortured and sexually assaulted in front of her daughters by members of an armed group.
While several incidents of sexual violence against Tamil women have gone unreported for obvious reasons, the details of many reported ones too have not been revealed. Many of the assaults perpetrated against women of the North and East have not received any publicity. But some incidents have received wide publicity Internationally though, not enough national coverage particularly in the Sinhala and English newspapers. Some of the better known incidents relate to Krishanthy Kumaraswamy of Kaithady , Rajini Velauthapillai of Urumpirai. Koneswari Murugesapillai of Amparai Central Camp Colony, Ida Carmelita of Pallimunai, Mannar, Saravanabavaan Sarathambal of Pungudutheevu etc. In all these cases, the victims were killed after being sexually violated. The most gruesome was that of Koneswari where a grenade was exploded inside her vagina after being raped and killed, to remove all traces of the sexual offence.
Tortured in custody
There have been other incidents reported where mercifully the victims have not been killed. One particular incident was that of Nagamany Yogalingam Vijitha who was arrested in Trincomalee and brought to Negombo. She was tortured horribly in custody. After ten months of incarceration, she was released on bail after the intervention of a Human Rights Organization. After a brief trial she was released on the grounds of insufficient evidence. A court summons was issued to the Officer-in-Charge of the Negombo Police Station who is yet to present himself in court over this matter.
Another incident that attracted notice was the case of two women Sivamani and Vijikala arrested in Uppukulam, Mannar by the Counter Subversive Unit and the Navy. They were allegedly raped by personnel belonging to both. When the incident came to light the Navy issued a controversial press release absolving their men of any complicity. The identification parade however disproved this claim. Although persons allegedly involved in the incident were arrested, the judicial process itself is painfully slow. Moreover the case is to be heard in Anuradhapura because the accused fear to go to Mannar courts.
The pattern of sexual assaults prevalent in the North and East came to Colombo in a big way this year. Two women, Sivarajani and Vimaladevi lodged at Haig Road, Bambalapitiya were detained and sexually assaulted by the Police in May. It is alleged that the Lodge Management was also involved in this shameful incident and had connived and collaborated in the offence. Initially there was some understandable reluctance by the victims to state as to what exactly had happened to them. At the same time, efforts were taken by top Police Officers to distort and underplay the incident. The victims however revealed more details, when the case was taken up at the Mount Lavinia Courts on Thursday.
This incident sent shock waves to the Tamils in Colombo that the wolf was at the door. Sexual violence against Tamil women by those in authority was no longer a phenomenon of the North and East alone. It was prevalent in the metropolis too. Then came the Maradana incident. Concern, anxiety and resentment over this state of affairs increased in leaps and bounds. The Tamil parties functioning essentially in Colombo had to be sensitive to the pressure emanating from the Colombo community. The protest demonstration followed.
While politicizing the issue from a Tamil perspective in its utilitarian value in the short term, the larger implications of the issue should not be lost sight of.
Lack of concern
Although the victims are Tamil women, the issue cannot be confined to ethnic terms alone. The issue at stake is that of sexual assaults and violence against women in general. Unfortunately there seems to be a lack of concern among mainstream Human Rights Organizations and Feminist Activists on this. The universal outrage and condemnation felt and exercised over the Krishanthy Kumaraswamy issue seems to be absent now. Whatever the reasons for this, the organizations concern should review and revise their stance. Allowing Tamil political parties to depict the problem as a Tamil problem alone would not help to eliminate the menace.
It is important for Tamils to realise that demonising the Sinhala people on the whole for this tragic situation would not be very helpful in the long run. This phenomenon of sexual violence in war situations is not restricted to Sri Lanka alone. It is not a unique attribute to the predominantly Sinhala Armed Forces or Police either. Violence against women under similar circumstances is a worldwide phenomenon. UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Radhika Coomaraswamy states in her latest report to the UN Human Rights Commission Violence against women during wartime continues to involve horrendous crimes that must shock the conscience of humanity. Despite the significant progress that has been made in recent years to strengthen legal prohibitions against rapes and other sexual violence, women and girls throughout the world continue to be the victims of unimaginable brutality . Radhika Coomaraswamy, a Tamil woman of Sri Lankan extract who owes her UN appointment to the Sri Lanka government, is known for her penchant to downplay the violence against Tamil women in Sri Lanka Editor .
There is also the possibility that this type of violence against women would be confined to Tamil women alone in the future. Even as the problem moved from the North - East to Colombo there is no ruling out the possibility of it transcending ethnicity in due course. There was an incident some months ago that focused attention on this possibility. The Police - Airforce checkpoint at Slave Island pounced on a woman who they suspected was a Tamil suicide bomber. They forced her to strip in broad daylight in the middle of the road. Subsequently it was discovered that she was a Sinhala woman from Ibbagamuwa in Kurunegala. Luckily for the strip search by goons, the woman was of a rural background and therefore had no influence. Therefore, the monstrous action went unpenalised, though there was some criticism. This was silenced through a masculinist manouevre the woman was a sex worker it was alleged. Another version was that she was a lunatic.
The idea was to de-personize her and malign her from a patriarchal perspective and undermine her. By doing thus, the issue of her rights being violated was deflected. The gravity of the offence was reduced. Interestingly the lunatics were those who sought to strip a suspected suicide bomber without adequate precaution. Another point is what the situation would have been had that woman been ethnically a Tamil instead of Sinhala? But the point here is that even non-Tamil women could be victimised in the future. Incidentally, the assertion that the woman from Ibbagamuwa was a woman of loose morals has its parallel in other instances in Tamil areas too. Koneswari, Ida Carmelita, Sarathambal , Vijikala and Sivamani were all slandered wrongfully as prostitutes by those who violated their rights in a horrible manner. It was as if that assertion, even if a fact, gave these khakied offenders a right to violate their rights.
The continuing pattern of sexual violence against Tamil women persists because of the climate of virtual impunity that prevails. Apart from the solitary Krishanthy Kumaraswamy case, there has not been any other instance of the alleged offenders being meted out justice though there are some judicial inquiries on, they are being conducted in a manner that indicates justice would never be done. Cases are transferred out of the original jurisdiction in favour of the accused. This however places a great burden on the living victims or those giving evidence on their behalf. What happens also is that as cases get protracted the will to seek justice gets enfeebled. The system seems designed to help the alleged offenders rather than the hapless victims.
The Police being asked to investigate cases is another farce. Birds of a Khakied Feather stick together. The arrested persons are released on bail after a short spell. The cases keep dragging. Evidence is unavailable. People cannot be identified. Most alleged offenders are merely transferred and not interdicted pending inquiry. Another aspect ignored is the gender sensitivity of the issue. Investigating male officers do not possess the required sensitivity and also share an unwritten bond with the accused fellow male officers. Justice is delayed and by extension this justice is denied. The credibility of the Judicial System in cases of this type is so low that few people expect any justice at all. Even the solitary exception of Krishanthy is now perceived as a ruse by the government to make an example of a showcase case and enhance its reputation.
Despicable Acts
This climate of impunity therefore encourages more and more persons to abuse their authority and indulge in sexual violations. The government is perceived as increasingly unwilling or unable to address this problem. Most high-ranking officers of the Armed forces and Police are fully conscious of the indiscipline amidst sections of the rank and file. There is however no incentive to check this tendency in a meaningful way. The fact that the despicable acts of some vermin tarnishes the image of the entire Force is realised, yet fails to register. The only way out is to introduce the principle of superior or command responsibility. There is a possibility that if commanding officers are held responsible for the Human Rights Violations of their subordinates, then greater care and responsibility would be exercised to maintain discipline.
There is also a need to be more aware of global trends in the field of evolving jurisprudence in the area of Human Rights Violations in general and violence against women in particular. The International community has begun developing precise standards for rapes and gender crimes of violence. These can be classified as war crimes, crimes against humanity and even as components of genocide. This applies to women being tortured or subject to inhuman and degrading treatment too. There are numerous instances of Tamil women being tortured and being meted out degrading treatment in custody. The recent furore over General Janaka Perera s appointment in Canberra suggests that there is growing International awareness of the way in which the war against the LTTE is being fought in Sri Lanka. So these offenders should realise that a day of reckoning with International consequences cannot be ruled out in the future.
The International tribunals set up to investigate the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda have also created important precedents over the issue of prosecuting wartime sexual violence. The state is becoming held increasingly responsible. The cases and convictions against Dusko Tadic, Tihomir Blaskic, Bazim Delic, and Anto Furundzija of countries belonging to the former Yugoslavia have through case law advanced the cause of women vicimised in war situations. The Foca case concerning eight Bosnian Serbs is likely to be another path-breaker as the accused are charged with crimes against humanity for a widespread or systematic campaign of sexual violence against women. The Rwanda example of the Jean - Paul Akayesu conviction has established for the first time, that acts of sexual violence can be prosecuted as constituent elements of a genocidal campaign
The approval in Rome on July 17, 1998 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court has, is another milestone. This statute has specifically defined rapes and other gender based violence as constituent acts of crime against humanity and war crimes. The Rome statute also addresses structural issues including the need to hire judges and prosecutors with special expertise on violence against women and children and the establishment of a victim and witness unit. These are critical if the court is to function as progressive mechanism for justice for victims of gender based violence .
Likewise, the government needs to revise and revamp the existing structure if it wants justice done in the case of sexual offences by Police and Armed force personnel against women. It is clear that the current system is structurally and functionally incapable of meting out justice fully. Just as the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act was incorporated on the grounds that special powers and laws were required to combat the menace of terrorism , new initiatives are needed to control and curb the tendency of Security Forces committing sexual assaults on people they are supposed to protect like the saying about the fence devouring the crops. The phenomenon of sexual violence against Tamil women by those in authority can be checked only through an exhibition of political will by the state. That is if it has one.
i A Sample Catalogue of Abuse
1996
11.05.96 Displaced unknown Woman at Kodikamam was raped and killed by unknown soldiers
19.05.96 Sri Ranjani (18), Puvaneswari (36) and Rajeswari (38) Sarasaalai by unknown soldiers. Rajeswari was Sri Ranjani s mother and Puvaneswaris sister.
19.05.96 Woman (Name undisclosed) Colombothurai - Armed forces
07-04.96 (45) woman - Thiyavettuvaan - Soldiers
01.05.96 Pushpamalar (22) - Kachchaai - Soldiers
09.08.96 K.Baleswari -Kerudaavil. - Armed Forces
07.09.96 Krishanthi Kumarasamy (18) Kaithady - Soldiers stationed at Chemmani search point. (Tried and sentenced)
08. 09.96 Vasuki - Jaffna - Six Soldiers (area unknown)
10.09.96 55-year-old woman - Thirunelvely in Jaffna - Soldiers (area unknown)
11.09.96 Thanaletchumi (17) - Kiliveddy in Mutur - Armed forces
Oct 1996 Letchumipillai - Trincomalee - Armed forces
Nov 1996 Young Girl in Vavuniya - Armed forces.
03.11. 96 Kanapathipillai Sornamma (35) Pattiyachcholai in Kalkudah -Army stationed in Kalkudah
12.11.96 S.Thenuka (Ten Years) Pathaimeni in Atchuvely - Armed forces
31.12.96 S.Sivasothy - Mandoor - Special Task Force at Mandoor.
Dec 96 P. Vanitha - Mayilambaaveli Housing Scheme - Army stationed at Mayilambaavely
1997
09.01.97 S.Navamani P. Jeyanthi (22) and K.Mekala (16) - Thiyavettuvaan - Defence Personnel at Valaichenai Paper Factory Camp. Jeyanthi and Mekala were Navamani s daughters.
Mar. 1997 Woman Worker at Kalliankaadu garment factory - Kalladi Road Batticaloa - PLOTE (Mohan Group)
17.03.97 V. Rasamma (39) and V.Vasantha (28) at Mayilambaavely by soldiers stationed there. Both were sisters.
17.05.97 Murugupillai Koneswari (35) -Amparai Central Camp Colony -Central Camp Police.
19.05.97 Kirubadevi (37) - Madduvil North - Soldiers
17.07.97 - Vijayarani (17) - Araly - soldiers
05.08.97 Sinnappu Pakkiyam - (37) Maavadivembu - Armed Forces at Maavadivembu
19.08.97 S Rajini -Vipulananda Street, Valaichenai - Army at Harbour.
05.09.97 Balandhi (Six years) - Atchuvely - Soldiers
12.09.97 Rajani Velauthapillai (23) - Urumpirai North - Soldiers in Kondavil
16.10.97 Thanganayaki (49) - Amparai - Home Guards
28.10.97 (40) woman - Manthikai - (Soldiers)
12.07.97 K.Chandrakala (20) -Alvai. Soldiers
06.11.97 Shyamala (17) - Pallai - Soldiers
25.12.97 K. Amutha - Vidathaltheevu, Mannar - (Police)
27.12.97 Savari Madelleine (31) - Sorikkalmunai -5 division - Sorikkalmunai (STF)
1998
16.03.98 S. Selvarani (28) - Meesaalai - (Soldiers)
15.04.98 P. Ajanthanaa (17) - Ariyaalai - (Police)
07.05.98 Mentally Retarded woman (36) Nochchikkulam, Mannar - (Armed Forces)
22.06.98 K.Ragini (23) - Panichchankerni - (Army at Panichchankerni).
16.07. 98 N. Bhavani (46) Thirunelvely, Jaffna - (Soldiers)
1999
11.07. 99 Ida Carmelita - Pallimunai in Mannar - (Soldiers from Pallimunai Detachment)
17.12.99 N. Vijayalatchumi (19) - Kalmadu, Valaichenai - Tamil ParaMilitary Group in East.
28.12.99 Saravanabavaan Sarathambal ( 20) - Punkudutheevu, 10th division - Naval personnel
2000
21.06.00 Nagalingam Yogalingam Vijitha - Negombo - tortured and assaulted in custody by Negumbo Police
2001
01.02.01 T. Ananthy (28 ) - Chettipaalaiam - (Special task force)
19.03. 01 S. Sivamani (22) - Uppukulam, Mannar - Counter Subversive Unit and Navy.
19.03. 2001 - N. Vijikala (22) - Uppukulam , Mannar - (CSU and Navy)
19.05.01 Sivarajani -Haig Rd, Bambalapitiya - Alleged Sexual assault by Police and Lodge Management.
19.05. 2001 Vimalathevi - Haig Road, Bambalapitiya - Alleged sexual assault by Police and Lodge Management.
24.06.01 28-year-old mother of two - at Maradana checkpoint - Alleged gang rape by Police and Army |
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Yes..............
Clinton forgot that rape that took place in the White House under her very nose.
At the time the LTTE was powerful and DBSJ was pro LTTE
Today, the LTTE is nomore and DBSJ attempting to gain the advisor role.
At the height of LTTE these incidents have taken place. We have also heard stories that the ltte commited offences on their own people to bring disrepute to the GOSL.
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Hey Einstein,
Stop insulting Idiots,...
Noe of the members of the Idiots club criticized Hilarious Clittonge |
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| Ajan get lost loser we don't give damn what you say:) every singla tamil who is innocent will send back home with out any issues,every LTTE carder will get required treatment hikz no go and cry loser |
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Displaced Tamils Feel Being Kept in Open Prison in Camps
T V SRIRAM, COLOMBO | JUL 12, 2009
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A top Tamil leader has asked Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to review the conditions of the displaced Tamil civilians living in the government-run welfare camps in the north, saying some feel being kept in an 'open prison'.
'In utter despair I am writing this appeal to you to convince you that your intervention at this stage is indispensable, if the country is to maintain its dignity and honour,' said Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) President V Anandasangaree in a letter to Rajapaksa.
'The country's credibility lies in your decision to order the immediate release of certain categories of Internally Displaced Persons and to follow it up soon by re-viewing the problem of the remaining IDPs,' he said.
'At present, they are virtually kept under compulsion without any justification, giving them the feeling that they are kept in an open prison with too many restrictions and not in a welfare centre,' Anandasangaree wrote in the letter.
The TULF President, a strong critic of the LTTE, urged Rajapaksa to visit some of the camps to assess the situation.
'I am acting on the assumption that many happenings in the IDP Camps are not brought to your notice. Seeing is believing and a visit to some of the IDP Camps by you is long over due,' he said.
'Your decision, which I am sure, will open the eyes of some who think that we can play with the lives of over 300,000 odd IDPs who are suffering for no faults of theirs,' Anandasangaree said.
He said the authorities in an IDP camp in Pulmoddai in Mullaittivu had denied release of a one-your-old child along with the 61-year-old Grandmother with whom the child is now staying there.
The TULF leader said while the father of the child had his left leg amputated and was in Pulmoddai, the child's mother had her right leg amputated and was now in Vavuniya.
'This type of incidents are available in abundance in various camps,' he said, adding thousands of people from his constituencies in Kilinochchi and Mullaittivu have come to the IDP camps in the North.
'I heard and continue to hear a number of stories, some of which moved me to tears. It is the injured and the pregnant women who suffer the worst, without proper and prompt attention,' the Tamil leader said.
'Although there are thousands of cases, I give just one or two examples for you to consider the seriousness of the problems,' he said, adding 'as a patriotic Sri Lankan who loves not only his country but also its people, I have done my duty to my country.'
'If you want to win over the Tamils do this first, resettle them soon and think of any development latter,' he added.
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How sinhala nazis fooled the world that they conducted a world largest Hostage rescue operation.
and its time world do a Hostage rescue operation to rescue our people from sinhala nazis.
Sri Lanka's internment camps for Tamils: experience of an inmate
TamilNet, Monday, 05 October 2009, 09:37 GMT
South Asia has never witnessed such a large scale, state-organized crime as one committed on Eezham Tamils by the government of Sri Lanka. Perhaps the world has never witnessed hitherto that such a crime of internment camps for civilians could be initiated collectively by all the powers of the world and the UN, and could be left like this without anyone being able to do anything about it. A civilian woman who was a captive in the Zone 3 of the internment camp of Menik Farm for four months, and managed to come out by other means a month ago, writes on her experience in the camp an indelible shame for the so-called civilised world.
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On occasional visits by dignitaries, she writes, Then a van with video cameras drove by and started throwing bread and some sambol at the inmates crowded behind the office. The inmates rushed competing for the bread while the amused cameramen were videoing. Inmates on many occasions have told me of seeing similar scenes being videoed.
Gun and stick (long baton rods) wielding military control the inmates at all times.
Reporting misbehaviour of the military could be fatal, she writes: I asked one senior government employee inmate if this misconduct by the military ought to be reported. I was told that if I attempt anything like that I will disappear.
The toilets are only less than five meters from my tent and the smell was strong when the emptying of the toilet pits is not carried out in time, which is always the case. When there is water shortage, which is frequent, concern about how one is going to use the toilet
I have never seen flies and mosquitoes in such numbers in my life. While eating, one hand is fully occupied with chasing the flies a practice that children will not adopt thus consuming food contaminated by flies that come straight from the toilets very nearby.
Majority of the children including infants did not have milk (powder) except an occasional packet handed out by some charity. Once a father of a seven-month-old baby came begging for some sugar to put in the plain tea (black tea) to be given to his seven month old baby because the mother did not have enough breast milk and the baby was hungry. Plain tea had become the regular diet for this baby.
Each zone has two or three OPD clinics of varying sizes. Most of the doctors attending the clinics are non-Tamil speakers.
The queues are very long and the doctors work at break neck speed. I have seen a doctor writing a prescription to a 12-year-old boy without finding out what is wrong with the boy.
Once an educated mother told me that she visited the doctor for treatment for her baby as well as for herself. The medicine dispensers mixed up the medicines and gave the baby what should have been given to the mother.
People young and old suddenly dying after a few days of fever is a common occurrence.
Once I saw an old man just squatting on the zone-3 side of the gravel road watching through the barbed wire the goings on in zone-2. A military person walking past called the old man on to the road and started beating him. It was clear to me that the beating on this occasion was purely for sadistic pleasure. I have seen a few more instances of sadistic actions by the military.
The military also separated families by taking away people suspected of LTTE membership at Omanthai where all refugees were first recorded. Trying to locate the whereabouts of such members was the most traumatic.
If there was any doubt that the Menik Farm camps are anything other than prisons the procedure in place for outside visitors to meet inmates will clear away any doubt.
The actual meeting area is divided by iron sheets up to the chest and above it are wooden grills similar to what one would find in a prison. The visitors and inmates can talk through this grill and also exchange items over the grill. One is permitted only around 20 minutes maximum to talk because there will be hundreds more waiting. Even within this short time one is often interrupted by the military demanding the national identity card of the visitor and details about the relationship to the inmate.
If an inmate dies in a hospital outside camp to which the inmate was transferred earlier, there is a small chance he or she will get something resembling a funeral.
A three and a half year old boy died near my tent and his aunts who brought him up were not allowed to even go and see the dead body of the boy.
Any death within the camp has no chance of a funeral. The body is just removed by the military and nothing is heard of after that.
Those who arrived in May described the experience of the last few days of the war in great detail. Many said that during the last few days they never walked erect due to fear of being hit by shelling. When making the move to exit the area they said that they had to walk over dead bodies.
Edited By - ajan - 5 Oct 2009 14:53:50 GMT |
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She has no right to make irresponsible remarks on our internal matters...or for that fact make such tarnishing accusations...before pointing their finger at us, they will have to probe into the raw war crimes that are being committed by the American soldiers in the world of middle east. So how can they teach us human rights? coming to think about it, do they really care about our rights? the cry of a raped woman? or the plight of the IDP's and the resettlement process? its an irony to say that one of the worlds giant, arms and ammunitions manufacture and distributor will actually want peace and harmony in this world. this is what we call 'diya yatin gindara' in sinhala
we do have our problems internally, just like every other country...its for us to go step by step to make right the grievances and loses of our community and not at the whims and fancies of the Clinton's UN, the EU charters or to the beat of any other exotic gatherings. |
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