By Dayan Jayatilleka –
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
Chief Minister Wigneswaran attempted to explain away the Northern Provincial Council’s ‘Genocide’ Resolution by saying it was not directed against the present administration but rather against its predecessor. He was not telling the truth, to put it mildly. The Resolution has a specific target and that target is unveiled in the very title. The Resolution goes into the record under the title “Sri Lanka’s Genocide Against Tamils”. Thus the charge is not against Mahinda Rajapaksa—not that this would have made it right—but against Sri Lanka. It is Sri Lanka, the country—our country—that stands accused. It stands accused of ‘genocide’. Any reference to the previous administration appears in those sections dealing with ‘recent genocide’, while every section on ‘recent genocide’ is preceded with one on ‘historic genocide’.
What is the pith and substance of the resolution? There is no room for confusion. It says:
“This resolution provides an overview of the evidence demonstrating successive Sri Lankan governments’ genocide against Tamils, and respectfully requests the ongoing United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) to investigate the claim of genocide and recommend appropriate investigations and prosecutions by the International Criminal Court. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (Genocide Convention) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9th December, 1948, and acceded to by Sri Lanka in 1950, and provides:
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Although the OISL investigation is a time-bound effort focused on February 2002 – November 2011, Sri Lanka’s genocide against Tamils began with the island’s independence. Since then, Tamils across Sri Lanka, particularly in the historical Tamil homeland of the NorthEast, have been subject to gross and systematic human rights violations, culminating in the mass atrocities committed in 2009. Sri Lanka’s historic violations include over 60 years of state-sponsored anti-Tamil pogroms, massacres, sexual violence, and acts of cultural and linguistic destruction perpetrated by the state. These atrocities have been perpetrated with the intent to destroy the Tamil people, and therefore constitute genocide.
This Council is of opinion that during the period extending from 1948, when the Citizenship Act was passed to strip citizenship from a segment of the Tamil community and render them stateless, and continuing through the present day, successive Sri Lankan governments have perpetrated genocide against Tamils. Extensive evidence demonstrates that acts have been committed that constitute four of the five enumerated genocidal acts in the Genocide Convention…” (p.1)
The resolution passed by the Northern Provincial Council solemnly places our country, Sri Lanka, in the company of Hitler’s Germany, Rwanda and former Yugoslavia.
“…This Council notes that the spread of false rumors to incite violence against a group is a hallmark of genocides throughout history, such as in Nazi Germany, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia. The Sri Lankan government has used false rumors as one tool in organizing Sinhalese mobs to commit genocide against Tamils.” (p.3)
The Resolution accuses Sri Lanka of committing “cultural genocide” against the Tamils.
“…The governments of Sri Lanka also committed acts of cultural genocide, beginning on June 5, 1956, when the S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike government passed the Sinhala Only Act, or the Official Language Act, which replaced English with Sinhala, spoken by 70% of the population at the time, as the sole official language. This act failed to officially recognize Tamil in any capacity. In the first republican constitution of 1972, Buddhism was privileged “at the foremost place” among religions in the constitutions. Although the term “cultural genocide” does not appear in Genocide Convention, it was included in the initial draft, and international criminal tribunals have found acts of cultural and linguistic destruction to constitute acts of genocide. The Sinhala Only Act and the privileging of Buddhism undermine the Tamil people’s language and religion, predominantly Hindu.” (p.5)
The Resolution states that the Sri Lanka sought to physically eliminate the Tamils in the same manner as in Rwanda. One of the methods by which this Rwanda–style “physical destruction”, albeit in slow motion, defined as “slow death genocide”, was sought to be effected, was through – wait for it—university admissions policy.
“…Moreover, according to international criminal jurisprudence from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the term “physical destruction” “should be construed as the methods of destruction by which the perpetrator does not immediately kill the members of the group, but which, ultimately, seek their physical destruction,” which would “include, inter alia, subjecting a group of people to a subsistence diet, systematic expulsion from homes and the reduction of essential medical services below minimum requirement”. By pushing Tamils out of the workforce and rendering them financially insecure, the Sinhala Only Act and university admissions standardization ultimately aimed to destroy the Tamil group at least in part via a “slow death genocide.” This Council further notes that during the war, the government imposed prolonged blockades against humanitarian aid and embargos on necessary goods, preventing basic goods and supplies from reaching the NorthEast.” (p.7)
Did you know that a military blockade is still in place against ‘Tamil areas’, causing the “historical impoverishment and isolation of the Tamil community”? Note the despicable use of the present tense, and the open-endedness, in the phrase “has been in place since 1990”.
“A military blockade against Tamil areas has been in place since 1990, except for ceasefire periods, which has contributed to the historical impoverishment and isolation of the Tamil community. The blockade has prevented ordinary items such as basic medicine, school books, cement, gasoline, candles, and chocolate from entering Tamil areas. During certain periods of the ethnic conflict, the military adopted a harsher stance, and blocked all humanitarian aid intended for civilians.” (p.7)
According to the Resolution, the genocide is ongoing: “To this day, Tamils in the NorthEast suffer from Sri Lanka’s ongoing genocide …There has been no change in the oppressive level of militarization in the NorthEast with the election of Maithripala Sirisena…” (p.11)
So what’s the bottom line? What does the Northern Provincial Council, its Chief Minister Wigneswaran and by extension the Tamil National Alliance which has failed to denounce the resolution and whose most moderate member justifies it entirely, wish to be done with – and to—this country, Sri Lanka? What is sought to be done? What is the agenda? There is no room for confusion on this score.
“…Resolved that the obligation to prevent and punish genocide under the Genocide Convention is not a matter of political choice or calculation, but one of binding customary international law. This Council urges OISL to comprehensively investigate and report on the charge of genocide in its 11 submission to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2015. The UN Security Council should refer the situation in Sri Lanka to the International Criminal Court for prosecutions based on war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Alternatively or concurrently, domestic courts in countries that may exercise universal jurisdiction over the alleged events and perpetrators, including but not limited to the United States, should prosecute these crimes.
To this day, Tamils in the NorthEast suffer from Sri Lanka’s ongoing genocide…There has been no change in the oppressive level of militarization in the NorthEast with the election of Maithripala Sirisena…This Council urgently calls upon the international community to create conditions suitable and sustainable to protect the Tamils of the NorthEast Provinces in Sri Lanka from genocide.
The case of genocide in Sri Lanka is unique among genocides in history because it occurred over several decades and under different governments before intensifying into a no holds-barred war for nearly three decades and culminating in the mass atrocities of 2009. It is accordingly vital that Sri Lanka’s historic violations against Tamils, in addition to the 2009 attacks, are addressed through an international mechanism in order to combat Sri Lanka’s institutionalized impunity. This international intervention, coupled with action to promote the respect of human rights, is necessary to ensure a sustainable future for self-determination, peace, and justice, in Sri Lanka and for the Tamil people.” (p. 11)
So that is what the elected representatives of the Northern Provincial Council and their Chief Minister, think of the country in which they live, work, do politics and pontificate in. It is a country in which genocide is ongoing; a country which has perpetrated and is perpetrating genocide.
What do they want? They want to put the charge of genocide foursquare on the international agenda. They want Sri Lanka to be prosecuted. The charge is against “Sri Lanka”—the country; this country; our country. They want “international intervention” –their term, not mine—to prevent (ongoing) genocide against the Tamils.
It isn’t only the provincial representatives who think so. The moderate Mr. MA Sumanthiran, poster boy of Colombo’s cosmopolitan civil society, completely justifies the Genocide resolution. He also indicates the opportunities that will open up with the institution of a ‘domestic mechanism’ into accountability, with the “supervision” of the OHCHR, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Taken together with the genocide resolution and Mr. Sumanthiran’s endorsement of it, there can be little doubt that the ‘domestic mechanism’ proposed by the new UNP administration will open the space for making the charge of genocide stick, and infiltrating into the High Commissioner’s report and thus the international agenda, firstly in Geneva. Excerpts from the Ceylon Today interview given to Ananth Palakidnar follow:
“The Tamil National Alliance Parliamentarian M. A. Sumanthiran, defending the NPC’s genocide resolution as democratic and timely, emphasized on the need for the war victims to prepare themselves to gather more evidence in order to strengthen the OHCRC’s OISL report to be released in September this year. He also added that an internal investigation with the OHCR’s supervision, unlike the local investigations in the past, is essential to ensure a constructive UN investigation into the alleged war crimes in the country.
Q: What is your view on the recent ‘genocide resolution’ passed by the Northern Provincial Council?
A: The resolution is timely and the facts which have been listed out in it are nothing but true. It was a sheer democratic action and very well drafted, taking into consideration the grievances of the people directly affected by the war. Various comments could surface with regard to the resolution, but it was aimed at seeking justice for the people who have been affected by the ruthless war in the North. The Chief Minister of the Northern Province or the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) cannot be criticized for bringing about the genocide resolution, since the NPC represents the people who were very much affected by the war. So the NPC, which represents those people and being a democratic institution, has done its part in the right manner in bringing out the resolution. The Chief Minister has clearly pointed out the atrocities committed systematically towards the Tamils since the country gained independence. Therefore without addressing the genuine grievances of the people affected by the communal upheavals in the past, we cannot talk of reconciliation. Therefore, the genocide resolution was brought out to identify the perpetrators who had committed the war crimes and bring justice to the war victims. The resolution is not at all meant to hurt the feelings of those who strive for peace and reconciliation in the country…
Q: Do you think the delay in releasing the OISL report will make way for the perpetrators to do the manipulations over the accusations against them with regard to the alleged war crimes?
A: Nothing like that. The OISL report has its own findings. It cannot be influenced or adjusted. The TNA is constantly in touch with the OHCHR officials. On the other hand the people who had experienced the adverse effects of the war should do everything to strengthen the OISL report by adding more evidence to it. When the report is released in September it should bear the right weight. The war victims should come forward without any hesitation to strengthen the report further. They should be bold enough to give their evidence. There are several witnesses who had seen for themselves, directly, the atrocities committed during the war. A large number of key witnesses had given their evidence in the past, secretly. However, they should now cooperate within the other six months to make the OISL report more meaningful.
Q: How do you comment on the proposed internal investigation under the supervision of the OHCHR in Sri Lanka?
A: A local mechanism to hold an internal investigation into the alleged war crimes is important. It will not be a strategy adopted in the form of commissions in the past. The internal investigation under the supervision of the OHCHR will help in a big way to protect the witnesses as well. In any country, to support the OHCRC action, an internal investigation is also carried out in addition to the UN investigation. Therefore, the internal investigation, which is the Lankan Government is clamouring for, will only add weight in an extensive way to the UN action. Here again the people, without any hesitation, must cooperate in the investigations in whatever form to reach a constructive end results.”
Mr. Sumanthiran’s Ceylon Today interview reveals the intentions and expectations of the TNA and gives an inkling into the nature of the pincer move comprising the ongoing OHCHR international investigation and an OHCHR-supervised “domestic mechanism” that Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera and the Wickremesinghe administration appear to have agreed to.
*Dayan Jayatilleka was Minister in the North–East Provincial Council in 1988-’89 and Sri Lanka’s Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the UN Geneva in 2007-2009
Dev / February 25, 2015
Oh god he is back.
Are you exhausted your Nugegoda line?
Dayan is like a garbage dump, no one goes near a dump but it emanates a stink from time to time to remind everyone its still around !
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Native Vedda / February 25, 2015
Dev
“Thus the charge is not against Mahinda Rajapaksa—not that this would have made it right—but against Sri Lanka.”
This smart ass patriot hints that its okay to charge MR for genocide but not the state.
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Thiru / February 25, 2015
However much our diabolical Dayan barks up the gum tree, can he or has he disputed the fact that historical genocide of Tamils took place, and is continuing in some ways?
He cannot, that’s why he talks about all the impertinent stuff of smart patriotism and that kind of dumb stuff.
Back off to NUgegoda, Dayan, let the facts speak for themselves in an investigation.
It’s not like some Colombo school children having bogus birth certificates with falsified dates of birth as one of your own community has exposed recently.
A house made of falsehoods can’t stand – same for countries.
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Dev / February 26, 2015
Poor Dayan, the Jan defeat has hit him really badly.
The politician that MR is, seems to have taken his defeat better than his hangers on!
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Native Vedda / February 26, 2015
Dev
This smart ass patriot goes on and on with never ending recycled fantasy.
For a change lets celebrate the real heroes who are in the service humanity:
Tourist falls off the World’s End in Sri Lanka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iQHHpjbndY
The arm chair graying revolutionary can and should learn one or two things from these soldiers.
Glory is in saving life or preventing wars from breaking out not in war mongering.
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Alahakoon / February 26, 2015
Catholic DJ DeSilva, self proclaim analyst, uses phrases like “Our Country” referring to himself and “country they live” when referring to Hindu Tamils ..
Catholic DeSilvas who “live” in this country call this is “Our Country” (this is good too) but demand traditional Tamil Hindu people not to feel offended or feel discriminated in their own country. What a joke!
NGO Boy(as per MR), if you are talking about hierarchical ownership, this country belongs to Tamil Hindus more than Catholic (Kawalam) DeSilvas. If Hindu Tamils feel offended, feel discriminated, they have all rights to raise the issue. If it couldn’t get resolved with Sinhalese Buddhist majority, they should go international, Tamils have that right, Lanka is their motherland as same as Sinhalese Buddhists.
In last week India-South Africa ICC cricket match, it is heart warming to see ~80,000 North-South Indian jumping up with joy celebrating every boundary by Indian players… and there were number of matured, white bearded Indian Muslims with very traditional dresses emotionally cheering and jumping up with the rest of younger North/South Indians. It is obvious that these Muslim Indians are proud being Indians and also proud being Muslims. How beautiful!! DJ like people are an obstacle for this kind of joy for traditional Lankan people for another couple of decades.
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Donald J Gnanakone / February 26, 2015
I fully agree.
Who is Dayan (De Silva), fooling?
He is a shameless Sinhala chauvinist and racist.
Dayan was kicked out of the Rajapakse political circle, but appears on the Nugegoda stage. Too bad for him that SLFP is split into 2 with the Pro Rajapakses and Anti Rajapakses and therefore, the coruupt Rajapakses will lose. And Dayan can remain as a barking [Edited out]. The caravan will roll on, and the UNHRC will and is continuing the investigations…..lol. He can team up with Tamara Kunanayagam..
Donald Gnanakone
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Srinath.gunaratne / February 27, 2015
You must be dancing now that the sinhalese are divided.
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Off The Wall / February 25, 2015
Wigneswaran is a genocide nutcase all right, but he makes Dayan’s day.
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Amarasiri / February 25, 2015
Off The Wall
“Wigneswaran is a genocide nutcase all right, but he makes Dayan’s day.”
Fortunately, all these Mootals, [Edited out] were in hibernation during the Presidential Elections, that allowed the Tamils with Common Sense to Vote for the Common Sense) Candidate Mr. Maitripala Sirisena.
Most of the Tamil Mootals, [Edited out], are now coming out of hibernation, and if the Tamils with Common sense do not take control of the situation, the Tamils will be in the same situation, as before, and as the Muslims who allowed the Wahhabis and their clones, Satan following ISIS and ISIL to surface.
Déjà vu already seen
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Native Vedda / February 26, 2015
Off The Wall
Dayan used to hide in Hindia and then behind EPRLF, Premadasa, MR, 13th Amendment, Anandasangaree, … lately behind smart ass patriotism, political existentialism, Weerawansa, Vasu, ………. now under Wigneshwaran’s Versty.
What is he hiding from, his own shadow or from Existential Meaninglessness?
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Crazyoldmansl / February 25, 2015
It is important the he be allowed to express his thinking. It reveals how the mind of the sinhala buddhist works.
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Estate Labourer / February 25, 2015
Only the victims can feel the true pain of the suffering they went through, not the political analysts who live in ivory towers. Justice must be done at any cost!
It would be immoral to let the war criminals and racists off the hook, just for the sake of political expediency.
Whether the criminals are punished or not, at least their misdeeds must be exposed and not swept under the carpet.
The victims insist on knowing exactly what happened, and they have every right to do so!
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Burning Issue / February 25, 2015
What is your point Dayan? It appears that NPC Resolution is timely for you to mitigate your pathetic appearance on the Nugagoda platform filled with losers, chauvinists, and racists!
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Pot Shot / February 25, 2015
Dayan, Finally a good deed by you for publishing this document and giving it the wide publicity deserves. Thank you. The truth is YES! there has been genocide in Sri Lanka. You cant get away from that fact. The LTTE too committed genocide and should be equally implicated for their actions. But a legal government like the GOSL is part and parcel to several agreements with the UN that we as GOSL become directly liable and accountable for our actions against the Tamils. You can look at it any which way you want legally, historically or through your warped mind the fact is it was Genocide unleashed on a minority group. Can you remember JRJ’s famous speech just before he unleashed riots on the Tamil people? He said if the “Tamils want war I will give them war if they want peace I will give them peace” ….and the whole country suffered for 30 years on this promise he made as the head of state. Don’t you think, the then Government is accountable?
Also Dayan don’t try to be a puritan you are a racist supporting another racist administration. Once we had finished hammering the Tamils to submission we turned our wrath on the muslims. Tell me Dian Could any other religious group other than for the BBS have done anything they wanted in this country and got away with it? It is your bloody Mahinda and his brother who sponsored such regressive terror tactics to persecute the muslims because of your uncultured upbringing and racist minds. We the majority made sure that we vote him and people like you out of power because we didn’t need another 30 year war. I will tell you one more thing Dian, if the Muslims take-up arms they will not be like the Tamils they will gut people like you out. They have been extremely civilised in our country not to react to the intimidation f your sacred MR unleashed on them?
Lastly, the very fact you reject this genocide claim is similar to your reasoning that MR and his family were not corrupt. They were a damn filthy corrupt family the country got rid of not only because of the minority votes which you want to believe that toppled his regime but because of a majority of Sinhala votes that made it happen. I am damn proud of that.
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Spring Koha / February 25, 2015
Pot Shot, nicely worded. DJ’s finest hour was Geneva 2009. Or was it? The truth is that the rest of the world was caught unawares then, and gave us the benefit of the doubt. That was until the evidence leaked out, and the proverbial brown stuff hit the fan. Then came the denial, the back-pedalling, the back stabbing, the grudging admissions, and there will more to come.
DJ would do well to keep his head down and stay mum. He wouldn’t want to lose his trousers again – would he?
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Pot Shot / February 26, 2015
This is Dayan’s , MR and Wimal’s golden ticket. A resolution like this will gain them more support with the gullible grassroots. Dayan is shedding crocodile tears although he must be celebrating Wig’s genocide resolution. This is what they wanted before elections and it is reported that Namal had pushed for it but it had opposition from within.
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jansee / February 25, 2015
Dayan is a shrewd fox. He wants to up the ante to discredit the Sirisena Ranil govt. He is simply telling that the Tamils are running riot. All this for a simple reason – to incense the sinhala majority public which will eventually pave the way for MR to creep through.
Funny though, he has reproduced much of what the CM had included in his resolution but has not bothered to say whether the claims therein are true or not? MR and GR are sitting on a hot furnace. Their worry that the current regime will pile up charges against them, and incidentally they can be proved easily, has forced them to preempt and their answer is Dayan. Now that one of the horses in Dayan’s table has his hands full with his wife now facing the law, Dayan hopes and expect the current regime to react. By then end of 100 days, those who had free flow of “drinks” will be facing the music leaving Dayan mumbling and rattling all by himself. Like an ant trapped between both the ends of the fire, the Rajapakses will eventually face the music for their dastardly acts. It looks like that even their buddies in China will turn the face the other way.
There is no reason or justification for CW to explain to Sirisena that the resolution was against the previous regime. The fact that he did should have allayed the fears of the Sirisena/Ranil govt. If the previous MR regime had sought for the postponement of the UNHRC report, the UNHRC most probably would have told the regime to fly kites. But it did relax the rule for the current regime. CW did not attend the Commonwealth meet, did not follow MR to Delhi for Modi’s installation and had requested the Tamils to vote for Sirisena. Unlike what Dayan wants others to believe, CW knows how to handle matters. For all what Dayan has been writing prior to the election, even his own crystal ball has abandoned him and he is one bitter person trying to prove his utterly discredited worth. Who knows, MR would have thrown the carrot of the FM position and the whole nation knows how he entices with sweet offers. Dayan brought only misery to the Rajapakse regime. Like a sinking elephant holding on to a straw, Dayan’s wish is to sink rock bottom. Why should we stand in the way?
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Samitha / February 25, 2015
What’s that smell? Oh it’s the[Edited out]
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dcn / February 25, 2015
[Edited out] So now his agenda is to cough out communalism as much as possible. The NPC was elected with the votes of the majority of Tamils in that region and some of them feel they or their families have been victims from war crimes. Aren’t these people entitle to complain their grievances. Therefore naturally they are calling for independent unvestigations. Why should these complaints be turned into a communal hatred?
For katusa’s like DJ they have hang to something to hang on because these guys are bankrupt in thier ideas, thoughts and mind.
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Ram / February 25, 2015
” So now his agenda is to cough out communalism as much as possible. “
That charge should be left at Wigneswaran’s door. Dayan merely exposed how utterly untrustworthy Wigneswaran is, howevr much he pleaded with Sirisena that the latter was not one of the accused.
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Native Vedda / February 26, 2015
Ramuuuuuuuuu
Its time you stopped defending a public racist and start defending your own lies as authentic history, least you will have something to reminisce.
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Ram / February 26, 2015
Civet cat,
Dayan is NOT the racist on the forum, but you certainly belong in the category, even though you hide behind a false label. Your ‘ ‘authentic history’ has been rubbished many times over in these columns.
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Native Vedda / February 27, 2015
Ramuuuuuuuuuu
“Your ‘ ‘authentic history’ has been rubbished many times over in these columns.”
Need I say more?
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dcn / February 25, 2015
This guy is back within a few days because he has no job and all his hopes and expectations of gaining a lucrative foreign assignment from MR was shattered with his route. So now his agenda is to cough out communalism as much as possible. The NPC was elected with the votes of the majority of Tamils in that region and some of them feel they or their families have been victims from war crimes. Aren’t these people entitle to complain their grievances. Therefore naturally they are calling for independent unvestigations. Why should these complaints be turned into a communal hatred?
For katusa’s like DJ they have hang to something to hang on because these guys are bankrupt in thier ideas, thoughts and mind.
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Left Ceylon 1969 / February 25, 2015
One of the ways the Singhalese Government exercised power over the Northern Province from D S Senanayake’s time to Sirimavo’s was to prohibit Tamils taking rice or paddy pass Elephant Pass and neither could the individuals bring South any Red Onions (pass Elephant Pass.)
In the mid-60’s my Singhalese friends were surprised of this because there was a shortage of red onions in Colombo and a glut in Jaffna.
To teach the Tamils a lesson, red onions were imported from India while train loads were rotting in the hot Jaffna sun.
Red Onions have a Shelf Life of about 6 days in the sun
This Economic Genocide was perpetuated from 1947 and I do not know when it was lifted, I left the country in 1969.
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Pakis Pettiya / February 26, 2015
False claims comrade. Mrs B and Hector Kobbekaduwa encouraged Jaffna Onions to come to rest of Ceylon. Those were the days the Jaffna farmers were very happy. The rice issues affected all of us. So please check your ground facts unless you are not in SL. Kobbekaduwa got most number of votes from Tamils in 1982 for that reason. Jaffna farmers were helped by Mrs B’s import ban agricultural policies with both Onions and Chillies. It also encouraged exapansion of Chilly cultivation in Dambulla etc and made us grow more local food. Tamil farmers benefited. Get your goddamned facts straight mate.
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Moda Booru Wansa / February 25, 2015
I dont read aricles from you,[Edited out]
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Podi Appuhami / February 25, 2015
Hello Dayan,
Since you are a political scientist, as always claimed by you, what you should have done is to disprove the resolution and show how the incidents listed in the resolutions are not genocide. Can you do that without listing clauses of the resolution and giving your own interpretations?
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punchinilame / February 26, 2015
I suppose the CM could not have it timed any better – this was coming,
only Madame Biswal gave the hint. DJ at the initial stages requested
MR not to Internationalize the ethnic issue but MRs & cabals hidden agenda was just this – Genocide, under cover of the WP/CP being “looked”
after – for Votes? Justice must prevail – this is 21st century
democracy.
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Piranha / February 26, 2015
Every government in Sri Lanka since independence treated the tamils badly and that is a fact. SWRD, JR and Mara were the worst abusers of the tamil people of Sri Lanka and among the three Mara killed the largest number of tamils and was on a programme to decimate the tamil identity ever since the war ended.
Dayan is a racist and he is fighting for Rajapaksa who was on a crusade to make Sri Lanka an exclusively Sinhala country. Damn you Dayan for trying to bring back the vile racist dictator Rajapaksa.
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Mallaiyuran / February 26, 2015
Dhayan, In addition to Sumanhiran’s interview please keep this Rudrakumarn, PM’s interview too. He very effective explaining why the UNHRC is wrong is defying the report.
Dhayan, this time, is beating around the bush. He is little bit reluctant to nakedly attack CM, Wiggineswaran. He appears, as some commentators indicating, lost on the Nugegoda bet. He understands the main reason. Sinhala Buddhists, Usually, do not read essay’s like Dhayan’s ones to vote. Even the learned cannot figure out what our Dr. Opportunistic political analyst is trying to say. He purposely design the essay in that way to doge the questions. So he knows the worthiness of them in an election like Lankave’s.
The problem is obvious from this essay. He knows his boss directly stand accused by NPC’s resolution. He ran out of Temple Tree House and surrendered to Ranil’s feet to save him because of the looming calls for ICC investigation, beyond, OISL. He will not think of opposing Ranil and break the shield he is getting from Ranil. Dhayan’s Nugegoda firework is only mirage. Nothing substance is behind it. For the time being, Old King Political future is in the back burner. There is no way Old King is standing on this April (or May) election. He will not come out and get caught by the UNHRC.
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simon / February 26, 2015
No Dayan, its nit against Sri Lanka its against Sinhala Budhist.This is your great chance one again to defend them.You are now a hero.
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Ajith / February 26, 2015
Rascist and Fundamentalist Dayan,
You are right that both SLFP and UNP was responsible for “Genocide of Tamils in SriLanka”. SriLanka has a 100% Sinhala military and it was responsible for genocide but they were just follow the orders of the Head of Government (Prime Minister/ President). President Srisenna himself stated that the independence day was not 04th Feb 1948, it is 09th of January 2015. It is clear indication that those who ruled until now used the power to oppress Tamils.
It is the fact and all these days it was denied and the rulers intentionally lied to Sinhalese masses and hide the truth. A proper investigation is necessary to find out why no one was arrested for those crimes such as:
1. massacre of Tamils in 1958, 1977 & 1983
2. Burning of Jaffna library.
3. Murder of political prisoners inside prison.
4. bombing of churches, hospitals and nofire zones.
5. Massacre of civilians in the no firezone in May 2009.
6. Economic Sanction since 1990.
These are undeniable facts.
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Leon / February 26, 2015
Sri Lanka is a democratic country and freedom of expression is an intrinsic part of a democratic country. So what then is your problem?.You have lost all credibility and going by the comments, readers don’t want to read the garbage that you write and CT publishes. Why don’t you get one of the Sinhala provincial councils to pass a resolution that genocide against the Tamils was not committed?.
Dayan you are a dangerous man. You should be charged for creating communal disharmony, but then we have a lame duck President, where all the decisions are taken by the old fox Ranil who is in toe with the Rajapakses.
Incidentally why has Karuna not being charged for killing 600 policemen?.
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k.chevvez / February 26, 2015
Denying genocide by Sri Lanka is a crime of its own.
So you better watch when you write such denials.
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Taraki / February 26, 2015
Is funding genocide and terror a crime?
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Javi. / February 26, 2015
Try reinforcing your borrowed underwear and stop scratching those private parts- then the answer will dawn in your skin head which has caught a cold.
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Native Vedda / February 27, 2015
Taraki
Didn’t you know both are crimes?
Let see who else have funded both.
Starting with Hindia in the early 1980s, then Premadasa funding and arming VP, then MR paying VP for his services to democracy, then of course Hindians, USA, China, Pakistan,Israel ….. providing loans, arms, helicopters, multi barrels, naval ships, other lethal weapons, ….
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J.Muthu / February 26, 2015
Dayan u [Edited out]
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Ambedkhar Reborn / February 26, 2015
Dr.DJ, as many other readers commented your only career achievement is driving a nail on the head of the long suffering Tamil Community of your beloved country SriLanka, at the UNHCR as a represntative of SL under MR regime. That also you were able to do only because of the foundation built by Lakshman Kadirgamar under Chandrika Regime.
For the above piece of your work you have a good chance of winning a Nobel Price for promoting peace in Sri Lanka from 9th morning January 2015.. For you to get that Nobel Price you need the support of Israelis and of course of CM Wigneswaran.
R
Hope you get your Nobel Price and once you get that you can use your PINCER to pull out the nails made of language and religion that have been driven on the heads of the majority of the Sinhala Buddhist community by the leaders of the political parties since 1948.
I kindly request you to write at your earliest, an analysis on the OFFERINGS TO KATARAGAMA DEYIO with particular reference to the Golden Trident your MR offered over the weekend.
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BBS Rep / February 26, 2015
The problem with DJ is he is with the fascists in Sri Lanka. This he unequovocally proclaimed to all and sundry with outstretched hands singing the praise of Rajapaksas at Nugegoda. Those people who staged that rally are genocide deniers, DJ more so with what he uttered in Geneva in 2009.
But the fact is terrible things did occur during the 2009 war. Yes, LTTE also committed terrible crimes. But the Sri Lankan government unlike the LTTE were signatories to the Geneva convention. Wanton destruction of people and property is against the Geneva convention. Summery execution or torture of prisoners are also not allowed as per the convention. So why is DJ disturbed to the point of rabidity regarding a resolution passed by TNA or about the UNHRC releasing a report into the 2009 war. The answer is simple. He is protecting his ‘Maharajah Rajapaksa’.
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Indrapala Rajan / February 26, 2015
The only Pincer moving towards cutting off an object Mr, Dianne is fast approaching the left ball of Wimal!
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Dayan Watch / February 26, 2015
Cosmopolitan Law would have been taught in Aquinas College too.
It is about holding individuals to account more than collective entities so at least now Dayan Jayhtilaktasye can learn.
In Rwanda Hutus were never charged. But individuals were charged.
In Sri Lanka too it will be individuals who will be charged.
YOU WILL BE CHARGED DAYAN JAYATILLEKE!
Time to fret and keep guessing when what charge is coming to you.
Please travel widely. Especially to the West.
Why Hutus are generally seen in bad light than Germans for what Hitler and many National Socialists of Germany did is not just the passage of time. In fact Tutsi too committed genocidal acts of Hutus. This is due to how the West perceived the events. It will be a sad occasion if Tamil groups under the wing of the West get you or some of your dangerous counter-revolutionary accomplices before more sensible activists.
If anyone had charged Sri Lanka then they are fools who do not know trends international humanitarian law.
CV Wigneswaran pleaded in a preamble to the resolution aimed mostly at Sinhalese Buddhist masses that acknowledgement that Sri Lanka is fast becoming a despised name globally.
He was inaccurate.
Sri Lanka is also attracting the worst kinds of economic experiments to descend on itself. Dayan Jayatalkedye knows of this to some extent.
He has a hidden agenda pretending to care for the masses when in fact he is advertising the Genocide Resolution for the purpose of creating mass panic.
Sri Lanka can always change the identity like how presidents were changed in more desperate attempts to escape a weak UNHRC. A name change for the island or splitting the island like how the North East province was split up – anything is possible by the desperate criminals.
Under OHCHR there are other strictly humanitarian mechanisms that are strong and resolute to get at much more than genocidaires and for complicity to genocide. But they way wait for the appropriate time.
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K.A Sumanasekera / February 26, 2015
Did the Vellala CM Wigneswaran get his Law Degree and his Barristers certificate from M. G , Ramachandran, when the latter was the Chief Minister in Tamil Nadu ?.
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Ajith / February 26, 2015
Did low mental capacity Blood thirsty Sumanasekara get his degree from Bodu bala Sena head Gotapaya?
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Lasanda / February 26, 2015
What does Sirisena has to say in this regard?? Isn’t he the president with all powers???
TNA and minority people wanted a weak Governtmnet with a puppet to rule this country so that they can get their absured resolutions passed.
This governtment is playing with our hard earned peace!!This has to stop!!!
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jansee / February 26, 2015
In its initiative to conduct an independent war crimes investigation, could the present regime explore the possibility of where all this garbage started in hoodwinking and distracting everyone away from the gross and large-scale atrocities that took place in May 2009? The most obvious starting point will be Dayan. It is time that attention is turned on this pathetic liar who bluffed the whole world.
At the time, it may have been excused that he was merely a representative of the then SL regime but looking at his recent pathogenic activities, there should be no doubt whatsoever he was an active accomplice in “tidying” away the lies of the Rajapakse regime. He is part of the “KU KLUX KLAN” of SL. When even the UN has been investigated and found to have failed in its duty to protect civilians, why should not this pathetic liar who shamelessly covered up for the Rajapakse regime be hauled up and shown the noose that he is as guilty as the regime. He wanted credit for his lies and since then has been boasting about his traits. Now that reports show how the MR regime lied, then this face which perpetrated the lie to hide the truth from the world should also be hauled up. All his recent statements and writings more than amply prove his attempt in covering up his tracks by seeking to justify the Rajapakses’ actions. The Tamil diaspora will haunt this accomplice of the butchers with appropriate legal actions when he sets foot overseas.
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Both Sides Now / February 26, 2015
“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
For those who can read and undesrtand English, this definition means both sides are then guilty of genocide.
I think ‘intent to destroy in whole’ and not ‘in part’ should be the definition
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janz / February 26, 2015
Why doesn’t Vingeswaran make any reference to the massacre of 23,000 innocent Muslims in the North and East and 41,000 Sinhala peasants in border areas by the Tamils?
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Spark / February 26, 2015
The 23K Muslims and 41K Sinhalese you are referring were acts carried out by LTTE. Those massacres of Sinhalese in Dollar / Kent Farms and on buses were certainly done by the LTTE, and that is the reason why the LTTE was classified as a terrorist organization the world over. The world supported the elimination of the LTTE for that reason. However, a democratically elected government cannot behave in the same manner as terrorists on her own minority citizens. While the LTTE comprises of Tamils, all Tamils are not LTTE. This is the fundamental mistake and folly of the Sinhalese and their racist leaders. Even Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew has termed Rajapakse as a racist.
Did you ever try to find out who created the Tamil diaspora? Diaspora was created by Sinhalese racism of 1915, 1956, 1958, 1977, 1983 pogroms where thousands of innocent Tamils fell victim, houses burnt, businesses destroyed all of this done by ordinary Sinhalese. The diaspora are those who managed to flee to secure countries and continue their life. These were all criminal acts committed by ordinary Sinhalese with state sponsorship. State sponsorship bcos absolutely none of the perpetrators in these incidents were identified, arrested and sentenced. Do you believe if I were to tell you that in 1983 riots, even hospitals with pre-dominant Sinhalese health workers refused to treat innocent Tamil injured victims; and do you still claim Sinhalese are Buddhists? Now you tell me historically who is racist, Sinhalese or Tamils?
The Sinhalese would naturally not want an international inquiry because obviously all suspected crimes including genocide of Tamils by the Sri Lankan armed forces comprising of only Sinhalese will be revealed as true with complete proof and names of perpetrators. This will be a sheer damn shame to the Sinhalese race internationally where for many years the Sinhalese may find it difficult to admit that they belong to such a savage race. All this has been bought about by their equally racist leadership. If genocide is proven true, then it will be the duty of the UN having a referendum in the north. This certainly would lead to the division of the country, unless very substantial autonomy by the GOSL is agreed and compromised. In the end, the Sinhalese need to realize that all this has been bought about due to the impunity, arrogance and sheer racism of the Rajapakse leadership. The Sinhalese will never realize that the Ranil doctrine would have saved a lot of blood shed, not bring shame on the Sinhalese race and a amicable lasting solution to the northern conflict using international monitors, pacts, successful restrictions on the LTTE internationally and even a foreign exile for LTTE members without making them part of the government. When arrogance, victory, impunity with ignorance mix a race and their leadership fail to grasp the reality of humanity. This is exactly what has happened to the Sinhalese race and leadership.
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Native Vedda / February 26, 2015
janz
“Why doesn’t Vingeswaran make any reference to the massacre of 23,000 innocent Muslims in the North and East and 41,000 Sinhala peasants in border areas by the Tamils?”
Its a good idea and fresh information which can be used against LTTE when a a credible investigation is eventually carried out in this island.
Could you cite your source so that Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein could be persuaded to look into fresh information. As a good citizen you don’t want him to miss other sources.
Thank you for reminding us.
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