Sri Lanka. Les LTTE et le gouvernement mettent en danger la vie de dizaines de milliers de personnes déplacées autour de Wanni

It is time that all Human rights organisations to be true and talk with their heart.
We understand you do not want to take sides but in front of justice you have to make difference between 2 parties.

It is time before searching about LTTE on which if any true people are ready we can go for a debat as we are not here to play politics as politiciens, we are here to talk about justice. And we would like the world and all human rights organisations, are they defending countries who are behind crime attacks on the people which let this world to catastrope as happened just before the 2th world war, in Rwanda, in Darfour, in the Balkans, in Cambodge etc etc where this world were and are just spectateurs before the massacres happened.

It is time that all countries who are arming the Sri Lankan gouvernments to kill its people ; wiping a community off their land and making them homeless, these countries like Pakistan, Tcheque Republique, Bulgarie, India, China, Israel, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Great Britain, USA and some more the ancient eastern bloc nations should answer on the name of economic and thirst of money they have been taking part on financing war and war criminals like the Sri Lanka state. These countries should stand before the justice for these crimes.

And maining Sri Lanka for the following reasons should be put up on the International war crimes court.

And this is the real duty of Human rights ONG’s rather than giving press conference.

Crime of Genocide Acts :
The Presidents and defence ministers and army commanders the past and present should answer Crimes of Genocide acts :
Under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, acts of murder committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, national, ethnical, racial or religious groups as such are considered as acts of genocide. The evidence presented here serves to prove that during the period commencing May 1995 and continuing 2001, the actions of the Sri Lanka authorities in their war on the Tamil people in the North-East of the island of Sri Lanka constitute genocide.
Furthermore, Sri Lanka has consistently refused to acknowledge the applicability of the Geneva Conventions to the conflict in the island and has sought to categorise the lawful armed resistance of the Tamil people as an ’internal disturbance’. It has consistently refused to take prisoners of war and insists on incarcerating them under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, which was described by Paul Sieghart in the following terms :
« ...No legislation conferring even remotely comparable powers is in force in any other free democracy operating under the Rule of Law, however troubled it may be by politically motivated violence... » (Sri Lanka : A Mounting Tragedy of Errors - Report of International Commission of Jurists 1984 and mostly all Human rights defending organisations included the UN’s secretariat of Human rights))
The record shows that under cover of this refusal to acknowledge the law, the Sri Lanka security forces (acting on the implicit or explicit authorisation of its commander in chiefs) have with impunity committed gross violations of the international humanitarian law relating to armed conflict which law demands that -
• the civilian population shall enjoy general protection against the dangers arising from military operations ;
• the civilian population shall not be the object of attack ;
• acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population shall be prohibited ;
• starvation of civilians as a method of combat shall be prohibited ;
• hospitals shall not be object of attack ;
• it shall be prohibited to attack, or destroy objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as food stuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation works ; and
• it shall be prohibited to commit any acts of hostility against places of worship.
The genocidal intent of the Sri Lanka government is proved by -
• the ’broad front steamrollering’ attack launched on the Jaffna peninsula, Mannar and other tamil regions ;
• the deliberation with which the Sri Lanka security forces have killed Tamil non combatants, shelled densely populated Tamil villages, destroyed Tamil homes and cultivable land, bombed Tamil schools and places of worship, and blocked the supply of essential food and medicine to the Tamil homeland ;
• the persistent and frequent breaches by Sri Lanka authorities of the laws and regulations relating to arrest and detention and the unprecedented number of « disappearances » ;
• the systematic use of torture and rape as instruments of state terrorism ;
• the mass graves ;
• the use of Tamil civilians as human mine detectors and as forced labour ;
• the murder of Tamil prisoners whilst in the custody of Sri Lanka authorities ;
• the imposition of a press censorship which went beyond any needs of ’national security’ ;
• by calculated resort to disinformation and war mongering ;
• the public pronouncements of the Presidents’ of Sri Lanka and their ministers, together with the ’victory’ ceremony on establishing ’Sinhala rule’ of Jaffna and in other regions through creating High security zones and creating sinhalese settlements ; and
• Torture widespread in Sri Lanka
“The high number of indictments for torture filed by the Attorney General’s Office, the number of successful fundamental rights cases decided by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, as well as the high number of complaints that the National Human Rights Commission continues to receive on an almost daily basis indicates that torture is widely practiced in Sri Lanka,” Manfred Nowak told the General Assembly committee dealing with social, humanitarian and cultural issues, known as the Third Committee.

“This practice is prone to become routine in the context of counter-terrorism operations,” Mr. Nowak, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, added.

Mr. Nowak said that during the course of his visit to the country from 1 to 8 October, he received “numerous consistent and credible allegations” from detainees who reported that they were ill-treated by the police to extract confessions, or to obtain information in relation to other criminal offences. Similar allegations were received with respect to the army.

Rape & Murder of Eelam Tamil Women
« Sri Lankan soldiers have raped both women and young girls on a massive scale, and often with impunity, since reporting often leads to reprisals against the victims and their families.. » World Organisation against Torture
« The Sri Lankan security forces are using systematic rape and murder of Tamil women to subjugate the Tamil population... Impunity continues to reign as rape is used as a weapon of war in Sri Lanka. » Asian Human Rights Commission
Censorship, Disinformation & Murder of Journalists
..States that want to oppress a people do so by breaking their political will to resist injustice. To do this, oppressing states kill a societies intellectuals and journalists who speak for the rights of their people. They want the Tamils to be intellectually rudderless. It is easier to enslave a people who have lost their ability to understand the nature of their oppression..’ D. Sivaram, columnist for Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) and Virakesari (Tamil Daily), memorial speech for Slain Batticaloa journalist Aiyathurai Nadesan, 7 August 2004
Colombo 14 July 2008, Sri Lanka - The Free Media Movement (FMM) is deeply alarmed that another well-known journalist received a death threat this morning from an unknown caller. Former deputy editor of the « Sunday Leader », editor of the monthly magazine « Montage » and leading investigative journalist and South Asia co-coordinator of the International News Safety Institute (INSI) Frederica Jansz received the death threat at approximately 11:30 a.m.
The FMM condemns this threat in the strongest terms and, given the threatening situation in Sri Lanka for independent media and journalists, takes this threat very seriously.
The caller, calling from +94 11 2424617 , spoke in Sinhalese and first asked if it was Frederica Jansz speaking. Proceeding thereafter to tell her that she was involved in a lot of unnecessary work, the caller told her to stop immediately or that she would see in a very short period of time what would happen to her. When asked by Jansz to be more specific on what kind of unnecessary work she was involved in, he replied that she knew what it was and then repeated the threat.
Jansz had received a number of indirect threats during the month of May. On one occasion, on 28 May at around 4:30 a.m., a heavy vehicle was parked outside her residence for an hour with its lights on and engine revving. In early May, a decapitated chicken was left in front of her office.
As the FMM’s appeals for redress from the government and law enforcement agencies on hundreds of threats to media during the last year have completely failed, we appeal to all local and international democratic actors to ensure that the safety of journalists and media freedom are protected in Sri Lanka at a time when just speaking one’s mind is reason enough to be abducted, beaten up or worse.

Sri Lanka gouvernements promotion and encouragement of the crimes of its armed forces
Public Statement by International Independent Group of Eminent Persons, 30 April 2008

« ..It is lamentable that the Government of Sri Lanka continues to divert attention from the central truth in this matter – that is, the problem of impunity for serious human rights violations and the need for the Commission to get to the bottom of that impunity... » The IIGEP consists of the following 11 Eminent Persons : Justice P.N. Bhagwati (India) (Chairman), Judge Jean-Pierre Cot (France), Mr. Marzuki Darusman (Indonesia), Mr. Arthur E. “Gene” Dewey (USA), Prof. Cees Fasseur (Netherlands), Dr. Kamal Hossain (Bangladesh), Prof. Bruce Matthews (Canada), Mr. Andreas Mavrommatis (Cyprus), Prof. Sir Nigel Rodley (UK), Prof. Ivan Shearer (Australia) and Prof. Yozo Yokota (Japan).
Mass Acquittal in Bindunuwewa Massacre Case, June 2005

« At no time there were any incidents among the detainees and the management. There were no incidents with the neighbours either…. It is clear from the information now received by the authorities that provocation from external forces had led to this situation, » - thus spoke President Chandrika Kumaratunga immediately following the Bindunuwewa massacre. The acquittal of the accused in the Bindunuwewa massacre was foretold...The ethnic biases have plagued the administration of justice in Sri Lanka. It has been almost impossible for the ethnic minority Tamils to obtain justice. The impunity accorded by the Sri Lankan government to the perpetrators of racial violence has increased the alienation of the ethnic minority Tamils. The judgement of 27 May 2005 which established the fact that not a single person could be held guilty for the mass murder of 28 Tamils in the protective custody of the State at Bindunuwewa will further increase the distrust of even the moderate Tamil minorities with the democratic institutions of Sri Lanka..."
• the failure of the Presidents’ and their governments to condemn the gross and systematic violations of humanitarian law by the forces under their command and the impunity afforded to the offenders.
Genocide is a crime which transcends national frontiers. The Sri Lanka authorities, and the security forces under their command, are guilty of crimes against humanity and should be charged and punished according to law.