[TamilNet, Monday, 11 June 2012, 19:26 GMT]
When gunmen killed the Changkaanai temple priest in 2010, the
commander of the occupying Sinhala military in Jaffna, Maj. Gen.
Hathurusinghe, first accused former LTTE cadres, later said SL Army gun
borrowed from corrupt troops was used by former LTTE carders, and
subsequently all the arrested - two SLA personnel and two alleged former
militants were released by the courts. A pattern is now seen in
producing cases in the courts related to the murder of two Eezham
Tamils, a UK deportee and a Canadian citizen in Trincomalee and in
Ki'linochchi. Media in Colombo is busy in highlighting the SL
prosecution version of personal motivation, once again involving SL
military personnel in one case and former militants in the other, to
exclude the responsibility of top SL military command.
The anxiety seen in the SL prosecution to come out with a bundle of
contradicting evidence and the agitation seen in the SL government-run
or regime-supporting Colombo media in attacking alternative media that
comes out with ground facts, are just because the cases involve two
Western countries with the presence of a large Tamil diaspora.
It
became important that the genocidal military establishment of Sri Lanka
and the abetting establishments have to be exonerated.
Just a
few days before the Ki'linochchi murder of the Canadian citizen,
28-year-old Sivarooban Sivagnanam, returning from Qatar was brutally
slayed by a squad at Vathiri junction in Jaffna, very near to a SL
military camp. May be because he was a West Asian returnee, no
'international' or Colombo media took any notice. The victim
posthumously escaped from some woman coming into his case and some
'former LTTE cadres' also escaped from getting arrested.
Former
SL Attorney General and current advisor to the regime, Mohan Peiris
totally personalises the killings and other crimes and says that they
are just signs of the return of 'normalcy' in a territory where for the
last 29 years “there was no room for criminal activity by civilians.”
In
the given context, the larger picture of what is achieved by the
killings, terrorisation and other crimes only could lead to trace the
culprits responsible.
The Changkaanai priest was killed at a time
when the Saiva temples were terrorised not to toll bells or remember
the heroes laid down their lives to the cause of Eezham Tamils. Later, a
series of killings took place related to singing 'national' anthem in
Sinhala, students' movements, land grabs etc., besides simply for the
purpose of terrorisation and silencing the masses. Now, the
diaspora-returnee killings and their case-handling have deep purposes
and messages.
Three weeks back TamilNet reported on the arrests
made on the killing of the Canadian Tamil and on the efforts of the SL
prosecution in 'fixing' the case.
SL Ministry of Defence and
Colombo media last week attacked TamilNet for blaming the SL government
and its security forces for the murder and said that the murder was
carried out by an ex-LTTE cadre at the instance of his 'illicit lover'
having the ambition of stealing the victim's money.
On the UK
deportee's murder in Trincomalee, the SL defence website, once again
attacking TamilNet, said that the wife of the victim [in UK] arranged
the murder through her 'illicit lover' in Trincomalee who is a pilot.
There
must be something wrong, if such killings bringing in larger results
are carried out by former LTTE or corrupt SL military personnel as
alleged, especially when the 'rehabilitation' of the former LTTE cadres
is entirely left in the hands of the occupying SL military with the full
blessings of the so-called international community and India.
In
that case, the foremost action needed is liberating the former LTTE
cadres from the clutches of the occupying Sinhala military and leaving
their rehabilitation in the hands of the nation of Eezham Tamils.
But
a careful pattern of the prosecution of the cases would show that while
on one hand the occupying military and those who direct it achieve
larger purposes of terrorisation, subjugation, land grab, structural
genocide and total annihilation of the nation of Eezham Tamils through
such crimes, on the other hand they demonstrate their ability of getting
impunity and demonstrate with ridicule the futility of Tamils thinking
of judicial remedy.
Last week, the occupying Sinhala military
that has appropriated a Tamil village of 183 families in Ki'linochchi to
build houses and settle ex-Sinhala military personnel and their
families, has gone to intimidate all the Tamil families individually, to
withdraw their case against appropriation.
TamilNet has always
been pointing out top-level Sri Lanka military hands in the happenings
of the North and East fully occupied by the military. The Sunday
Observer of the Daily News group run by SL government and The Island
supporting the genocidal Sinhala regime in Colombo, tried to discredit
TamilNet last week, citing the SL prosecution in the murder cases and
the version of the SL defence website.
Colombo is capable of
twisting and denying even a whole genocide in which 150,000 Tamils went
unaccounted. The world has seen how the Tamil doctors who served in the
killing fields were made to give false evidence. The present murder
cases are nothing for such a regime.
The impunity enjoyed by the top level of Sri Lanka military begins from the top echelons of the world establishments.
The
US has led a resolution passed in the UNHRC for domestic investigation
of war crimes in the island and India is one of the three countries
elected by the UNHRC to monitor and report progress.
Last week,
the top commander of the US military, Martin Dempsey and the Indian
Defence Minister AK Anthony chose to privately meet the known
war-crimes-accused Gotabhaya Rajapaksa in Singapore to militarily aid
the naval project of the shark-petting SL defence secretary.
Guided
by strategic interests, if impunity to the war crimes accused is
implied at such a high level, how to expect justice in the judicial
proceedings of seemingly petty but strategically calculated crimes, is
the question of Eezham Tamils.
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