UNHRC heads for structural genocide if Tamil nation territory is not guaranteed: TNPF
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 15:02 GMT]An internationally monitored interim administration in the North and East under UN supervision outside the parameters of the Sri Lankan Constitution is the only way forward to stop the genocide being committed on Tamils, especially to put an immediate end to the accelerated structural genocide taking place in the Tamil homeland, reiterated Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, the president of the Tamil National Peoples Front (TNPF), in the first press meeting held at the newly opened press club in Jaffna on Monday. The current indications are that the UNHRC would end up giving another year of time and space to Colombo and the TNA that supported the resolution last year without a principled approach is answerable to what resulted from the resolution in the past 12 months, Gajendrakumar further said.
Arguing that the way forward could be nothing else than securing the territoriality of the Tamil nation in the North and East to safeguard it from existential threat, by clearly articulating the Tamil demands to the international community, he reminded the press in Jaffna that an interim solution is needed even to fulfil the iota of demands being advocated by the IC.
Limiting the investigations to the last phase of the war is ignoring the Tamil demand for investigation of the protracted genocide since the British left the island, Gajendrakumar said.
To ensure that people in the North and East are able to take part in free and fair investigations and present their evidences without any fear, an extra-constitutional interim administration must be in place, he said.
The leaders of the TNA and the section of media that were trumpeting about the resolution framed last year are now answerable to the people for their utter ignorance and lack of a principled approach with regards to the Tamil aspirations, the TNPF leader said.
Citing reliable sources and information obtained through direct contacts, Gajendrakumar said that the resolution to be framed this time is going to end up giving another year calling for the implementation of the resolution tabled last time. The situation on the ground has only worsened during the last 12 months, he said citing that the best evidence to the trend is nothing else than the latest report by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms Navaneethampillai.
In the meantime, the TNA bringing in the UNP into the North and East, harping on a ‘regime-change’ agenda has come under severe criticism among Tamil political analysts in the island. They cited Ranil Wickramasinghe favouring the Sinhala military to stay in the Tamil country and advocating that the solution to the ethnic question is implementation of the LLRC. Mr Wickramasinghe was also seen ridiculing the sections that call for federal solutions.
The ‘regime change’ strategy meekly followed by the TNA on the ill advices of the powers, by taking the side of the former SL military commander Sarath Fonseka and the UNP in the last presidential election of Colombo, is now interpreted in India by unscrupulous elements like Subramainam Swamy as a proof for Tamils endorsing the SL military that fought against the LTTE, Tamil political observers in the island cited.
Elements in India that don’t hesitate to deploy genocide a tool to promote imperialist interests and back Rajapaksa regime, now use the imprudence of the TNA to argue that there is no need for war crimes investigations, the political observers further cited.
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Tamils raped in Sri Lanka custody - HRW
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 12:34 GMT]Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released this week that Sri Lankan security forces have committed crimes of sexual violence against ethnic Tamils in state custody between 2006 and 2012. The said detainees were arrested because of their suspected links to the LTTE. The report gives 75 accounts of alleged sexual abuse and torture, saying most of them are backed by medical evidence.
Noting that the sex crimes committed by government security forces "sharply increased" following a ceasefire breakdown in 2006, the report said most of the abuses were politically motivated.
"Rape was one of the unlawful tools used by the military and police against suspected LTTE members or supporters to gather intelligence during the fighting and immediately after the conflict ended in May 2009, as well as to obtain information about any remnants of the LTTE since then, whether in Sri Lanka or abroad," BBC said quoting the report.
The research was carried out secretly because of government access restrictions, the organisation says. As a result, it was able to speak only to ex-captives and not to current detainees, whose "fate is of urgent concern," the Rights group said.
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Attacks against Tamil farmers escalate in Vellaave’li, Batticaloa
[TamilNet, Monday, 25 February 2013, 23:11 GMT]A Tamil village official looking after agricultural tracts (Vaddavithaa’nai) in Kevu’liyaa-madu in Vellaave’li division of Batticaloa district was severely assaulted four days ago by a group of Sinhalese settlers who have occupied the farm and grazing lands of Tamils. Two weeks ago, Sinhala ‘home guards’ had assaulted Tamil youths who were breeding their cattle in the same area, news sources in Vellaave’li said.
Earlier, the land official had made a complaint with the SL police in Kevu’liyaa-madu that the cattle of the Sinhalese person were daily causing damage to paddy crops of the Tamil farmers.
As the SL Police did not take any action to the complaint, the Vaddavithaa’nai official went straight to the Sinhala owner of the cattle, requesting him not to allow his cattle to damage paddy crops of Tamil farmers.
The Sinhala settler denied the allegation and started attacking the land official.
The Vaddavithaanai official, who was subjected to the assault, again went to the SL police and made another complaint about the assault by the Sinhala dairy farmer. The SL police did not take action on that complaint too.
Kevu’liyaa-madu is located along the border of Ampaa’rai district.
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NZ Tamils raise question on applying SA model to Eezham Tamils
[TamilNet, Monday, 25 February 2013, 00:03 GMT]“We are constrained to seek a clarification from those few who are waxing eloquently on the need to study and gain from the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa vis-à-vis the LLRC recommendations of Sri Lanka,” said a press release coming from the Tamil Action Front (TAF) of New Zealand on Sunday, raising the question, “Will those protagonists of the South African experience please explain to the Tamil diaspora at least what they mean – what is it that is so significant for the Tamils to emulate?” The press release signed by the TAF coordinator Mr. A Theva Rajan, brought out the contextual difference between South Africa and the island of Sri Lanka.
The press release hinted at New Delhi’s hands behind the out of context conflation of South African model with the island of Sri Lanka, where the Rajapaksa regime is still engaged in genocide, and said that K M Panikkar’s dream about India and the Indian Ocean has been shattered by M K Narayan, Shiva Shankar Menon, and Nirupama Menon.
The TAF has earlier accused the Obama administration for doing nothing to check genocide in the island, in its letter addressed to the US President Mr Barack Obama on last Wednesday, and asked the question “ are our beliefs that Russia is a champion of the downtrodden and oppressed a false dream,” in a letter addressed to Mr Vladimir Putin on last Thursday.
The TAF statements were impelled by the US position of bringing out a resolution of lacuna in Geneva that doesn’t recognise the territoriality of the nation of Eezham Tamils in the island and the reported stand of Putin that Russia have vowed to see that the motion against Sri Lanka scheduled to be taken up at the March sessions of the UNHRC is not carried through.
The current statement of the TAF targeted New Delhi for being an “amused onlooker” even when the 13th Amendment has been reduced to zero by the Divineguma Law under genocidal Colombo, and when a Chief Justice of the State had to face impeachment for rejecting that law as unconstitutional.
The stand taken by the Tamil Action Front of New Zealand in targeting the Establishments that globally orchestrate in silencing the grassroot voices of Eezham Tamils is refreshing, when sections of politicians, activists and academics are hijacked by the orchestration, commented political observers among Eezham Tamils.
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