| When UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Sri Lanka, he knew from his officials that at least 20,000 civilians had been killed by Sri Lankan troops in the offensive against the Tamil Tigers. Mr Ban never mentioned this figure to his Sri Lankan interlocutors. He saw, while travelling by air over a supposed "no-fire" zone, the evidence caught between the army and the insurgents. Yet he has still not confirmed the authenticity of photographs taken from the same helicopter setting out that scene of carnage and mass makeshift graves. There is terrible augury for such inexplicable reticence. The day after Bosnian Serb forces seized Srebrenica, deemed by the UN to be a "safe area", in 1995, Boutros Boutros Ghali, Mr Ban's predecessor, was asked whether this represented the organisation's greatest failure in Bosnia. He replied: "No. I don't believe this represents a failure. You have to see if the glass is half full or half empty." The name of Srebrenica, in which 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were slaughtered, has become synonymous with insouciance and failure by the UN, and not only with the barbarism of the perpetrators. Any parallel for the UN with what has happened in Sri Lanka must be scotched now. That can be done only by Mr Ban speaking forthrightly about what he saw. He is a civil servant rather than an executive; and the cause of historical truth as well as international protest depends on the UN Security Council having full and public knowledge of what he saw. There is no case for restricting diplomacy to private channels. There is no confidential quality to what Mr Ban can testify. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband was denied access to the north of the country when he visited Colombo a fortnight ago. He has a belated but important role now in pressing Mr Ban to speak. There is no question that the defeated Tamil Tigers were guilty of numerous depredations and horrific acts of suicide terrorism. Vellupillai Prabhakaran, the slain leader of the Tigers, denied, among other murderous acts, sending the assassin of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi but few doubt that he was lying. But the shelling of civilians in a supposed safe area and their deaths by the tens of thousands are not a matter for the Sri Lankan government alone. UN sources have described the offensive as a war waged without witnesses. However just the cause and brutal the adversary, there must always be disinterested witnesses to military campaigns. That is particularly so with adversaries that practise indiscriminate attacks; there is always a temptation, in response, to suspend the laws of war and the observance of due process in the name of higher necessity. And that temptation must always be restricted. The Sri Lankan government has much to account for. Yet it has responded with disingenuity and fantasy. It first denied the deaths of civilians and then claimed that the photographic evidence, repeated by independent witnesses, had been forged. In doing so, it is perpetrating sins of omission in order to obscure those of commission. Mr Ban must speak; the UN must investigate. Nothing else will demonstrate a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.
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ஞாயிறு, 7 ஜூன், 2009
சிங்களர்கள்-காங்.அடிமைகள் நோக்கம் தமிழர்களை முற்றாக ஒழிக்க வேண்டும் என்பதுதான். அதற்கு உடந்தைதான் ஐ.நா. . அந்த நோக்கம் முழுமையாக நிறைவேறாத பொழுது எப்படியோ தப்பிப் பிழைத்தவர்களை அப்படியே விட்டு அழிப்பதுதான் இவர்களின் நோக்கம். அப்படி இருக்க எதற்கு இந்த நாடகம்? பான் கீ மூன் உண்மையிலேயே மனச் சான்றுக்கு வேலை கொடுப்பவராக இருந்தால் இவ்வாறு செயதியாளர்கள் மூலம் பேசி நடிக்காமல் ஐநா மன்றத்திலேயே நடவடிக்கை எடுக்க வேண்டும். பூனைக்குத தோழனாக இருந்து கொண்டு பாலுக்கும் காவல காப்பதுபோல் நடிக்கக் கூடாது. மனம் ஒட்டாதவர் பின்னே சென்று வாழ்வதை விட அழிவதே மேல் என்னும் தெய்வப்புலவர் திருவள்ளுவர் கூற்றை உணர்ந்து அழியும் தமிழ் இனத்தைக் காப்பாற்ற தமிழ் ஈழமே தீர்வு என்பதை உணர்ந்து அதற்கு ஏற்பிசைவு வழங்க வேண்டும். சிங்கள இந்தியக் கொடுங்கோலர்களைத் தண்டிக்க வேண்டும். இல்லையேல் நடிக்காமல பதவியை விட்டு ஓட வேண்டும். போலிப் புத்தர்களை புத்த நெறியில் இருந்து நீக்க வேண்டும். மலரட்டும் மனித நேயம்! வெல்க தமிழ் ஈழம்!
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வியாழன், 4 ஜூன், 2009
கொலைகாரனையே நீதிபதியாக்குவதும் கொள்ளைக்காரனிடமே பொருளுதவியை அளிப்பதும் என்பனவே இன்றைய உலக நடைமுறை என்பது புரியாத புதிராக உள்ளது. ஈழத் தமிழர்களைக் கொன்றொழித்த சிங்களம், இந்தியா முதலான எந்த ஒரு நாட்டிடமும் ஐநா முதலான எந்த அமைப்புடனும் இல்லாமல் மனித நேயம் மிக்க நாட்டிடமும் அமைப்பிடமும் மட்டுமே பொருள் உதவியை அளிப்பதுதான் உண்மையான உதவி. அந்த வகையில் தென்மார்க்குத் தன்னுடைய நாட்டின் தன்னார்வத் தொண்டு அமைப்புகள் மூலம் உதவ முன்வந்துள்ளது நல்ல முயற்சி. ஆனால் இதற்கு சிஙக்ளமும் காங்.அரசும் ஒத்துக் கொள்ளா. உண்மை விரைவில் புரியும்.
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செவ்வாய், 2 ஜூன், 2009
Sri Lanka war crimes: Ban must speak, UN must investigate – The Times
“Mr Ban must speak; the UN must investigate. Nothing else will demonstrate a decent respect for the opinions of mankind,” The Times argued.
The full text of The Times’ editorial, titled ‘Time for Witness’, follows:
Ban Ki Moon the Secretary-General of the United Nations, visited Sri Lanka last week. He knew from his officials that at least 20,000 civilians had been killed by Sri Lankan troops in the offensive against the Tamil Tigers. Mr Ban never mentioned this figure to his Sri Lankan interlocutors. He saw, while travelling by air over a supposed “no-fire” zone, the evidence of a massacre of thousands of Tamil civilians caught between the army and the insurgents. Yet he has still not confirmed the authenticity of photographs taken from the same helicopter setting out that scene of carnage and mass makeshift graves.
There is a terrible augury for such inexplicable reticence. The day after Bosnian Serb forces seized Srebrenica, deemed by the United Nations to be a “safe area”, in 1995, Boutros Boutros Ghali, Mr Ban’s predecessor, was asked whether this represented the organisation’s greatest failure in Bosnia. He replied: “No, I don’t believe this represents a failure. You have to see if the glass is half full or half empty.”
The name of Srebrenica, in which 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were slaughtered, has become synonymous with insouciance and failure by the UN, and not only with the barbarism of the perpetrators.
Any parallel for the UN with what has happened in Sri Lanka must be scotched now. That can be done only by Mr Ban speaking forthrightly about what he saw. He is a civil servant rather than an executive; and the cause of historical truth as well as international protest depends on the UN Security Council’s having full and public knowledge of what he saw.
There is no case for restricting diplomacy to private channels. There is no confidential quality to what Mr Ban can testify. David Miliband, the British Foreign Secretary, was denied access to the north of the country when he visited Colombo a fortnight ago. He has a belated but important role now in pressing Mr Ban to speak.
There is no question but that the defeated Tamil Tigers were guilty of numerous depredations and horrific acts of suicide terrorism. Vellupillai Prabhakaran, the slain leader of the Tigers, denied, among other murderous acts, sending the assassin of Rajiv Gandhi, the former Indian Prime Minister; few doubt that he was lying. But the shelling of civilians in a supposed safe area and their deaths by the tens of thousands are not a matter for the Sri Lankan Government alone. UN sources have described the offensive as a war waged without witnesses. However just the cause and brutal the adversary, there must always be disinterested witnesses to military campaigns. That is particularly so with adversaries that practise indiscriminate attacks: there is always a temptation, in response, to suspend the laws of war and the observance of due process in the name of a higher necessity. And that temptation must always be resisted.
The Sri Lankan Government has much to account for. Yet it has responded with disingenuity and fantasy. It first denied the deaths of civilians and then claimed that the photographic evidence, repeated by independent witnesses, had been forged. In doing so, it is perpetrating sins of omission in order to obscure those of commission. Mr Ban must speak; the UN must investigate. Nothing else will demonstrate a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.
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