The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam has unanimously adopted the resolution passed by an ‘Assembly of Persons Concerned with the Genocide of the People of Tamil Eelam’ that called for the prosecution of Sri Lankan “military and political actors responsible for genocide and crimes against humanity.”
At the ceremonial first sitting of its second Parliament in the State of New Jersey, USA on 8 December 2013, the TGTE parliament accepted in full the resolution passed earlier on the 29 September, 2013 in London, England by this specially constituted ‘Assembly of Persons’ who in their “plan of action” declared among other that “accountability mechanisms” should be established so that these military and political actors are prosecuted, “under all available means in international law.”
The resolution under Clause 13 stipulated the “accountability mechanisms” that should be pursued:
“We request that the United Nations Security Council refer the high level political and military leaders of Sri Lanka to the International Criminal Court for prosecution. If that does not prove feasible, we request that the United Nations General Assembly establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Sri Lanka pursuant to its power under Article 22 of the United Nations Charter that is modeled upon the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.”
The resolution under clause 14 further called for “the people of Tamil Nadu to bring pressure on the Government of India to sue Sri Lanka before the International Court of Justice for genocide under the Genocide Convention of 1948.”
Some of the legal luminaries and eminent persons present endorsing the resolution passed in the London Conference were Geoffrey Robertson QC, Prof. Francis Boyle, David Matas, S V Kirupaharan, Robert Evans, Ali Beydou and Prof Sornarajah.
The Resolution in full accepted and adopted by the TGTE parliament reads as follows:
ASSEMBLY OF PERSONS CONCERNED WITH THE GENOCIDE OF THE PEOPLE OF TAMIL EELAM BY THE GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA
RESOLUTION ON A PLAN OF ACTION
We constitute ourselves today, the 29th September, 2013, as an Assembly of Persons Concerned with the Genocide of the People of Tamil Eelam by the Government of Sri Lanka, its armed forces and its political leaders and resolve on the following plan of action:
1. As an Assembly, we declare that accountability mechanisms should be established so that the military and political actors responsible for genocide and crimes against humanity are prosecuted under all available means in international law.
2. The UN Office of Legal Affairs has advised the Secretary General that he had the power to establish a Commission of Inquiry into the state atrocities in Sri Lanka. We request the Secretary-General to establish such a Commission of Inquiry as there has been no progress in this matter for four years.
3. We declare that this genocide continues so long as the Tamils taken into custody are unaccounted for by the Government of Sri Lanka.
4. We declare that the genocide and crimes against humanity continue as long as the Sri Lankan army is in occupation of the lands of the Tamil people. Such occupation destroys the identity of the Tamil people and is intended to intimidate them into subjection. The army must be withdrawn and the occupation ended.
5. We declare that the lands occupied by the Sir Lankan army be returned to their owners, in accordance with principles relating to the property of internationally displaced persons. All moveable and immovable property must be returned.
6. We declare that, upon return, compensation be paid to the legal owners for the period of dispossession of their lands by the Government of Sri Lanka.
7. We declare that military personnel and others in illegal possession of such lands are personally liable for such compensation and that their civil liability will be established before courts of other states if they travel to any other country of the Tamil diaspora.
8. We demand that the Government of Sri Lanka restores destroyed property in the NorthEast to its previous state.
9. We demand that all land transferred to foreign investors or to local investors be transferred to their original owners. If they were public lands, they must be handed back to the local governments for public use. All such transfers will be challenged in the courts of the home states of the foreign investors on the ground that they hold illegally seized lands.
10. We demand that, women, especially the war widows, are protected from rape and gender based violence by the occupying forces. We declare that such harassment constitutes genocide in accordance with standard definitions of genocide.
11. We will explore every legal technique available to secure redress for the people of the NorthEast of Sri Lanka.
12. We recommend the establishment of a legal committee to pursue the issue of accountability for the genocide of the Tamils of Tamil Eelam, the rape and sexual harassment of women and the grabbing of their lands. The committee must explore the interconnectedness of these events with a view to establishing genocide.
13. We request that the United Nations Security Council refer the high level political and military leaders of Sri Lanka to the International Criminal Court for prosecution. If that does not prove feasible, we request that the United Nations General Assembly establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Sri Lanka pursuant to its power under Article 22 of the United Nations Charter that is modeled upon the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
14. We ask the people of Tamil Nadu to bring pressure on the Government of India to sue Sri Lanka before the International Court of Justice for genocide under the Genocide Convention, 1948.
15. We call upon the Tamil Diaspora and people of good faith and goodwill all over the world to engage in acts of peaceful resistance against Sri Lanka in the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi’s satyagraha.
16. We recommend that an umbrella group of all people threatened with genocide is formed in London to pursue the achievement of strong laws against genocide and support each other in their pursuit of self determination.
The Penetrator / December 11, 2013
I would like to rephrase this a bit “We declare that the genocide and crimes against humanity continue as long as the Mara regime is in occupation of the lands of the Sri Lankan people. Such occupation destroys the identity of the Sri Lankan people and is intended to intimidate them into subjection. The regime must be withdrawn and the occupation ended.”……………………………………………………… We are all the same going on a path to death, Do not worry about some fucking homeland for who you where born as, you came out of your daddys nut sack and I came out of mine.. Speak what ever language you want and be “proud” of it in this lifetime………..Why do people need to classify themselves????? I still don’t understand…. These two cockroaches in the picture above are no Buddhist philosophy believers and because of their dad they are Sinhalese.. They only want power in this lifetime, they DO NOT realize we only know one thing, and that is that we are already dead and just figuring out a way to get there.. I say FUCK the people in Sri Lanka who are Tamils, Muslims, Catholics and anyone else I forgot to mention!!! Burgers, Moors, whatever… Go [Edited out]… Then come out with your bullshit racist classification.. Stick with one rule, don’t fuck with me and I won’t fuck with you.. Lets all die together peacefully.. It can’t be that hard can it?????????????????????????????????
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Amarasiri / December 11, 2013
The Penetrator,……………………………………..
Here is the debate from 2009……………………………….
Claims Gotabaya Rajapaksa ORDERED surrendering LTTE TO BE KILLED.
http://lkvideos.com/view/16459/never-forget/ ………………….
SFට සහයෝගය දක්වන්නන් පිලිබඳ මාදුටු සත්ය නම් බොහෝවිට මොවුන් උග්ර UNP කාරයෙකි…නැතිනම් උග්ර JVP කාරයෙකි.එසේත් නැතිනම් දකුණේ බොම්බයක් පිපුරුන විට යුද්ධයට සහ මහින්දට කෙලවී ඇතැයි කාලකන්නි සතුටක්…
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Amarasiri / December 11, 2013
The penetrator……………………………………….
The facts and evidence is there…Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered the killing of the surrendering LTTE..along with the videos..However, LTTE was the target …and both commuted war crimes………………….
http://lkvideos.com/view/16459/never-forget/ …………
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The Penetrator / December 11, 2013
Sorry Amarasiri, Think I posted on the wrong thread before.. Evidence is very hard to find, a speech is not good enough.. But i guess it’s not that hard to find a law that Gota and his regime has not broke to punish them with death..
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Javi / December 14, 2013
It was Fallujah in South Asia under test by all(all world powers) being in it. How far can they destroy evidence and go just for `Gooo`ta- it’s hard. However, they would go after him on individual cases like journalist because even the Sinhalese are victims and his past deeds slaughtering the Sinhalese.
The TGTE is fuckshit low class revenge as if we are not aware of the biggest partition the no killed, the 3 wars subsequently and the cold war. Defense budget for each nation would rise at least to 30-40%. New Zealand has done away with its own defence and handed it to Australia because it is cash strapped.
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Sena / December 11, 2013
Ya we can criticize each other and the family counts the money to the extent that even the Chinese are complaining about the amount of Santhosam they have to pay and then recovering it by doing a shoddy job
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Max Silva / December 13, 2013
TGTE where are you?Clean my back side which is your homeland.A bloody set of loonies without a homeland.Better suck David’s toes,and when that is done wipe my ass.A bloody set of loonies.
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kris / December 11, 2013
Ha Ha HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
These idots when they are going to stop this bullshit resolutions against SL – TN jokers did first then this mythical Gov started same thing , this is to get more money from innocent tamil people- good for the terorist survival
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Pasel / December 11, 2013
No
your government is blood sucking from you because you are in Coma stage you are not going to feel anything
You will see with in few years who are the losers
You are living under the white van watch , you can’t even fart about the MR regime
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Maratoni Makalga / December 11, 2013
Hey Parcal
What is this TGTE? An internet provider? Or if it is to do with Tamil Dream Peelum, where is this so-called government exist? Is it in you a**? Wake up from your pipe dreamer and be real idiots. You podians never learn from the past.
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Pasel / December 12, 2013
Maratoni , Kris ,Veda and fuck Fatima
Where you were all before 2009?
You all slave of MR regime and keep kissing their ass
See what happened hero SF ?
He became Zero
You can’t speak the truth
BBS will give you freedom from your misery with the White Van Ride and bless by Gota
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Native Vedda / December 11, 2013
kris ….. “These idots when they are going to stop this bullshit resolutions against SL” …………. When you stop being stupid…… “good for the terorist survival”……… The more minorities the terrorist state kills the longer it stays in power the more commissions the ruling clan makes out of its miserable stupid people…. Therefore clan needs TGTE and Tamilnadu jokers for its own prolonged survival………. Probably the clan may be maintaining a back channel to TGTE, Tamil Diaspora and TN. ……..
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Maratoni Makalga / December 11, 2013
You are right Vadda _ this TGTE is a another big Wank of Thamil Die-Ass_Poo-ra. Keep wanking until you kiss the dust.
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Javi / December 14, 2013
and you are going to the dogs!
Keep walking you are rightly in hell!
(^o^|(^o^)
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Pasel / December 11, 2013
Burmese democracy activist Maung Zarni, answering a question on the use of the label of ‘terrorism’ to the LTTE, said that terrorism was a “discursive, strategic and political term” cooked-up by world powers as regards to their geo-political interests.
Yes , former Seven Elleven owner and current secretary of defense of Sri Lanka fool the world and now entire family is under war crime
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Pasel / December 11, 2013
You all did the phony war against terror now we are doing war against war criminals
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Mallaiyuran / December 12, 2013
There weren’t any war against terrorism. India trained boys to capture Lanka. When India thought the time is good, it invaded Lanka. As LTTE did know what the Indians motive was, they had their own counter plan too. So, they did not go to fool around like Vijithamuni Rohana de Silva. This time their solid action disappointed India. They looked for a bunch of Modayas to turn them around against LTTE, who saved country from Indian. This worked very well with the Royal Family too. Because they too looking for a chance to capture Lanka from Tamils and Sinhalese. Right after war, Royal Family said they fought India’s war. India said SLG fought their war. Here two parties both wanted to capture Sri Lanka. India lost due LTTE. Latter it joined with Royal family and helped Royal Family capture the country. Tamils did know they lost. But here again the Sri Lankan fools were let alone to believe that they had fought a war against terrorism and won it. Yet the Kings won’t be able to hold on for long time the country they captured from Tamils and Sinhalese. The reason is, India is making ready for a second round. This time LTTE has been wiped out and there is not going to be any resistance. This time Vijithamuni Rohana de Silva also won’t be able to make any funny jokes with Indians. As far as Tamils (TGTE) are concerned any redress for them has to come from UN. They know, there may be some delays, but it will come for sure.
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Javi / December 14, 2013
“|”They know, there may be some delays, but it will come for sure.”|”
They will have to go piggyback on the very Sinhalese for that due to their own war crimes and the stench its causing to neighbors.
India was hoodwinked into training so please don’t tell us No.
No government in an independent India is possible with out UP and Bihar 85,54 seats (total 543+2)NaMo’s Gujarat 26; Maharashtra 48;West Bengal 42;Madhya Pradesh 40; Tamil Nadu 39;.Out of the elective seats, 530 are from 25 States and 13 are from seven Union Territories.
Tamil Nadu has always been neglected so don’t take India for `grunted`.
You cannot kill, insult and demand power from the world especially from the authority.truth is not the authority.
It has taken the Scottish folk 230 years to get a referendum next year.
You do the Irish way gun and judiciary- well there was a bomb at Belfast yesterday not Scotland.
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Fathima Fukushima / December 11, 2013
This is funny.
Some STATELESS FOOLS!!
No wonder Tamils are stateless parasites.
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email / December 11, 2013
Fathima,
I agree with you 100%. YES,Tamils are stateless fools!!!
US and UK governments must be careful! Tamils might want a separate state in US or UK,now that they have failed miserably in Sri Lanka !!!
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Lanka liar / December 12, 2013
They are happy to be part of UK and USA. But they don’t want to be part of Sri Lanka – Do you know anybody want to be. If you agree 100% in Sri Lankan means you disagree 100% You know what you mean. Everything is opposite in Sri Lanka.
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email / December 13, 2013
You Tamils will never be happy for long in those countries… you will demand more and more from them, until it comes to a stage where you will demand a separate state, just like you did in Sri Lanka!!! You people are parasites!!!
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Lanka liar / December 17, 2013
But how come they are very happy. Doing so well
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Tamil from the north / December 12, 2013
SHUT UP FOOL!!!!!!!!!!
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email / December 13, 2013
Tamil from the north,
Are you constipated?? You cannot digest the “truth”??
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Ben Hurling / December 11, 2013
Great. TGTE should now adopt yet another resolution. This time against themselves. Request international bodies to investigate monkeys of TGTE for terror financing, propaganda & arms procurement over 30 years. On behalf of the now defeated & defunct LTTE. World’s worst terror outfit. Throw in aiding and justifying the kidnapping of poverty stricken & traumatized Tamil children to serve as canon fodder in VP’s stinking frontline bunkers in Vanni. Don’t even bother to mention human shileds & shooting Tamil escapees in the back. All these horrific crimes in the name of Tamil people. To carve out an ethnically cleansed, Tamil only enclave in multi-ethnic Sri Lanka. The perverted form of Tamil ethno-nationalism TGTE champions. Cheers!
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Palmsquirrell / December 11, 2013
So you want World to investigate crimes against Tamil civilians by LTTE but not crimes against Tamils by GOSL. –Since LTTE is defunct and the surviving members are in the Rajapaksa government, why not go after Rajapaksa and charge them for harbouring LTTE.
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Ben Hurling / December 11, 2013
Palmsquirrell, All crimes, be they by LTTE or by GOSL, against Tamils or Sinhalese, should be looked into and dealt with by GOSL. Internationals are welcome should we seek help. Not otherwise. We are a sovereign nation. Please note Justice we seek must be unique to the Sri Lankan situation. Remember, after WWII nobody in the allied nations were punished. Despite overwhelming civilian casualties on the German side. In South Africa Apartheid was ended in a negotiated settlement. In Sri Lanka the ruthless terrorists were militarily vanquished. Sri Lanka’s situation is unique and must be dealt with as such. TGTE is not interested Justice for anyone. You believe them, if you want to. They are engaged in a lofty vengence project to dismember Sri Lanka. Cheers!
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Native Vedda / December 11, 2013
Ben Hurling …. “We are a sovereign nation” ……. Here we go again…..
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Palmsquirrell / December 11, 2013
If you are against International community involvement then you are in favor of GOSL getting away with war crimes, because GOSL will never incriminate itself. Even if Rajapaksa are deposed, whatever government takes their place will never ever indict GOSL Armed Forces . –Either you support the perpertrators of war crimes being held accountable or you are not.–If you are opposed to International Community involvement then you are against the guilty being held responsible.
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Ben Hurling / December 11, 2013
Palmsquirrell, Your faith in this Motely Crew of the so called International community is so blindly solid. I am worried. Just look at who is involved. India, UK, USA & Canada. Now please..!
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Burning_Issue / December 11, 2013
International Community is the only Hope for the poor hapless people. If you take this away, they have nothing. You do not know that predicament as you have never been in it, and not intelligent enough to visualise it!
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Palmsquirrell / December 11, 2013
India I agree should not be involved because they will support Rajapaksa. The others I do have some faith, more faith than any GOSL– India, Ghandi dynasty and the Hindu elite are the enemy of all Lankans for their scheming and coniving ways.
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Javi / December 14, 2013
“|”India I agree should not be involved because” …..you bite the hand that feeds you because of your inferiority complex. Bangladeshis are not even Hindus and the whole world especially the west watched them being murdered. Indira has the guts to go in and come out in 8 days before being bombed by the 7th fleet that had arrived.
Do you deserve freedom for murdering a dear PM (half kashmiri brahmin and half parse)What would you do next that was Moss ad’s question the folk who helped `Gooo`ta.
If you don’t get what you want in 10 years then perhaps you would be hunted down like the jihad’s.Did you know 9/11 would change your situ no- anything can happen. Which ever party comes Remember Brahmin is authority.
Why are the Anglo Americans called Boston Brahmins? because they do you the same way. it’s stupid to fight the hand that can feed you unless you are like the mother of all stepfathers sob vp.
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truth / December 11, 2013
Sovereign nation has no right to kill its own citizens!!!Rajapakse could have said this and kept quite, instead of going round the globe and begging to support him at the UN.
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Javi / December 14, 2013
Sadly for your information Sovereignty lays in the people not the government.☻ o-o
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M.Sivananthan / December 11, 2013
Ben:
Now the government asked to do a counting of missing, kidnapped, and dead during the war. But alas! The Tamil hooligans like Fr.Emmanuel and others cry against it. Why? Their 40K, 50K missing stories will be vanished forever.
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Ajith / December 11, 2013
Did you know how the racist murderous Sinhala government’s calculation of 70,000 became 300,000?
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Siva Sankaran Sarma / December 11, 2013
Someone probably just pulled it out of their behind – isn’t that how the LTTE diaspora usually comes up with their numbers, so what’s the problem here :D
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M.Sivananthan / December 11, 2013
Then you know the number of deaths of LTTE also. Tell the number of LTTE criminals who were killed in the war! Then you bark the rest!
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Ben Hurling / December 11, 2013
GOSL must take full responsibilty for this so called International onslaught against Sri Lanka. Rajapassa has done too little, too late. They have no credibility in matters of Justice. Judicairy is corrupted and politicised to serve The Clan. Not victims. International Ealamistas are drawing full benefits of this gross misrule. Victims of violent crimes in Sri Lanka are left to suffer their misery without Justice. Sri Lanka as a nation will end up paying the price one day. When that day dawns, The Clan will escape to a safe loaction with the loot. But, we will have to start from scratch. Sri Lankan Spring, Where are you? Cheers!
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Kumar R / December 11, 2013
Ben,
When misery seems to be cornering your door step, now you see fit to cry out “Sri Lankan Spring where are you?” Does that give you any sense of what the Tamils had gone through since Banda’s time, with the misery visiting them rising exponentially at each election? When will enlightenment come to these amphibians rather deep in their wells and so damn oblivious to others’ suffering? Just think — what would Buddha do!
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Max Silva / December 13, 2013
Palmsquirrel,
Come soon.Lick my toes!
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Percy Jilmart / December 11, 2013
@Ben Hurling
The whole world knows what the LTTE did and now they are no more. Most or some people in the world know what the SL armed forces did…and so do most Sri Lankans…but the Sri Lankans want only what the LTTE did highlighted while they want what the SL armed forces did to be swept under the carpet. What the SL armed forces did to the JVP and Sinhala youth was swept under the carpet because the Sinhalese quickly forget and most of them care only about cattle being killed on poya days. But what happened to Tamil civilians cannot be hidden…it’s only a matter of time. Take a look at these.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_massacres_attributed_to_Sri_Lankan_government_forces
and this,
http://f.cl.ly/items/2b2J0q3y1F2C2X1i2L1O/EXE%2520BDEF_RAPPORT_SRI%2520LANKA_DEC%252013.pdf
and this,
International tribunal in Germany to probe Sri Lanka’s genocide allegations
http://www.jdslanka.org/index.php/2012-01-30-09-30-42/human-rights/424-international-tribunal-in-germany-to-probe-sri-lankas-genocide-allegations
Do you know what the definition of stupid is?
It’s knowing the truth, seeing the truth but still believing the lies. :D
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Maratoni Makalga / December 11, 2013
Hey Jill Puppa – Wait a minute!!!!!!!!!!what about these idiots in TGTE Peelum Dream Goverments? You are telling us their not part of LTTE and moderate thamils? You must be joking?
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Ben Hurling / December 11, 2013
Percy Jilmart, I am all for lifting carpets. All crimes by GOSL and non-state actors must be exposed in detail. Since Independence. There are many. Including JVP & LTTE related violence. Then we can start the process of forgiving and reconciliation. In good faith. To make sure we will never return to that kind of misery again. Difference is you favour involvement of International hypocrites, while I believe in the strength of Sri Lankans to see this through. Internationals are welcome to give us a helping hand. Along the way. Cheers!
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Javi / December 14, 2013
“|”Difference is you favour involvement of International hypocrites, while I believe in the strength of Sri Lankans to see this through.”|”
Ha ha ben-hen 64 years a generation with the begging bowl.
That’s exactly where your ignorance and fraud lay- `Cant Do Wont Do`!◕‿◕
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Lanka liar / December 12, 2013
Ben an amendment to the resolution. They should investigate the donkeys and bufellows of Sri Lanka also, they are very easy to investigate. Then the resolution will be complete and Sri Lanka can get rid of the dirty smell too.
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srilal / December 11, 2013
——————-” We request that the United Nations Security Council refer the high level political and military leaders of Sri Lanka to the International Criminal Court for prosecution.”——————–
this is not feasible as long as China and Russia remain in the security council. ——————————————” we request that the United Nations General Assembly establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Sri Lanka “———————————————
24 out of 47 member states need to vote in favor for a such a resolution, composition of the voting member states are as follows
(A)African continent (13),(B) Asian Continent (13) ,(C) Eastern Europe (6) ,(D) Latin American (8),(E) western countries (7) ; taking in to the considerations of Geo politics , past voting patterns and current SL Human right condition , future voting (2014)pattern could be as follows ————– , in the (E)group all the western countries (7) in favor ;in the (D) group Cuba & Venezuela against and the rest (6)in favor ;in the (E) group Russia & chech Republic against & (1) absent and (3) in favor ;in the (B) group only India & UAE in favor and (7) against and (4) absent ; finally the (A)group holds the key for any eventuality as GL works very hard for the African votes , it’s little difficult for me to guess the final out come of the African group , 13 countries are Algeria , Benin, Botswana, Burkna feso,Congo, cote de vorie , Ethiopia, Gabon , Kenya, Morocco , Namibia , South Africa and Siera Leone . may be Congo , Nambia,Kenya , South Africa and other two countries vote against the resolution.—————————-
7+6+3+2+( ? ) =~ 18 ————————————————
PS: The Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) has unanimously ruled that Sri Lanka is guilty of genocide, at its second high profile session in Bremen, Germany.
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Javi / December 14, 2013
What guarantee do you have to say the Arabs won’t vote yes when prodded by UK/Canada?
You never knew Utra Pradesh french creole Mauritius?
Czech soldiers have taken part in coalition operations in Afghanistan and have been the only vote at times to support UK at the EU on Euro.
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srilal / December 11, 2013
” The panel also ruled that both the United States of America and the United Kingdom were complicit in the genocide, whilst the involvement of India warranted further investigation.”
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Percy Jilmart / December 11, 2013
Srilal read this.
International tribunal in Germany to probe Sri Lanka’s genocide allegations
http://www.jdslanka.org/index.php/2012-01-30-09-30-42/human-rights/424-international-tribunal-in-germany-to-probe-sri-lankas-genocide-allegations
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Upasiri de Silva / December 11, 2013
Is this TGTE recognise by any country and given these Ministers, Prime Minister any Diplomatic recognition ?
It is good to go for the truth. Rudrakumaran, the TGTE PM and others including KP and each and every Tamil who contributed to fund the LTTE is/ was responsible for all the deaths of Sinhalese, Tamils and others for the last 30 years. Not for the support given to Prabakaran by these Tamil groups, Sri Lankan Forces should not have gone to eradicate the terrorist organization band in many countries including USA and UK, where the action plans were hatched. The two governments should take immediate action to BAN this TGTE as it is part of the LTTE.
If Tamils in the North is feeling intimidated what about 42 PC of the Tamil population in the Western Province alone. What this TGTE should try to achieve for the Tamils in the North is not what they need to impose on them, but security to live happily with a roof over their heads. If TGTE can concentrate the atrocities committed by the Two Man team of Rajapaksas during the last Four 4 years, then they can prove Rajapaksa brothers are trying to annihilate the Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims including others, than trying to look for co- lateral damages and deaths committed by LTTE and the Forces, where most Tamils are party to the annihilation by contributing funds to buy weapons and other equipments to kill and maim around 100,000 people of all nationalities. According to Criminal Law the person who committed the crime as well as the people who supported to commit that crime are guilty of the same crime.
If Rudrakumaran and the other Ministers ( JOCKERS) can think properly and QC Robertson May explained to them that the death of 6632 Soldiers and Officers during the last stage of the LTTE annihilation should be answered by those responsible to armed the LTTE. If in Military terms we assume the Fire power the Army had and for them to loose 6632 service personals, there should be another lot of casualties should occurred from the other side. Taking into consideration the ill trained child and other terrorist members of the LTTE killed that vast amount of service personals then the number of LTTE soldiers should be around 30,000 .
So without talking about WAR crimes try to take up the post LTTE war casualties and all other atrocities committed by the Rajapaksa with imputing their brutal power to subdued the people of all denominations. In my opinion TGTE is only a name sake organisation collecting money from the poor Tamils who believe on them that they are their saviours. But if they can help the CM Wigneswaran and the people in the North to live a peaceful and happy life then they can prove themselves as a educated organization.
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manisekaran / December 11, 2013
Before asking to punish TGTE, can you punish UNP because Premadasa armed and funded LTTE and punish SLFP for funding LTTE to get elected, I assume these two are bigger contribution than TGTE’s one. Dont be hypocrite just because they are your people? And alos dont forget to hang yourself because your elected government did this, quite contrary to any other government in the world.
You people support Indian to kill Tamils, and then support LTTE to kill indians and support rajapakse to kill LTTE, then support someone xyz to kill rajapakse, it is you people who are at fault need big time punishment
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sach / December 11, 2013
Shall i tell you the bigge contribution, india’s training and arming.
Before talking about us to punish people in our country, go and do something worthwile in your country. We punish our wrong doers that is exactly what we did in 2009. If there are remnants we will do that too.
In the meantime you can do something to stop TN thieves from stealing SL tamil fishermen’s fish
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manisekaran / December 11, 2013
Sach, last month 150 srilankan fishermen were arrested by Indian Navy, how about that, sorry I did not realise Indian navy was so stupid to arrest social workers of Srilankan fishermen landing Indian shore? How is that? You punished whom in 2009? If you are capable your MOD should punish India for its act, oh wait a minute is n’t gota going secretly to beg India, oh pity sach, do one think go to indian emabssy in colombo and demand action against India for arming LTTE, then come,ask me? are you handicapped all these years?
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Pandaranayagam / December 11, 2013
The Rajapakse Brothers will ignore this development only at their own peril. Demands for action against the Rajapakses is growing the world
over. The ostrich-like response they take will soon prove counter-productive. The only way out is to restore to the Tamils their
long-denied rights now legally enumerated by a duly elected Chief Minister of the NPC. This will, in some degree, mitigate the strident
action the UNHRC and the world are now in the process of putting forth.
The space for the Rajapakses to run and hide is fastly narrowing with every passing day.
Pandaranayagam
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Rod / December 11, 2013
What a waste of time
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R. Varathan / December 11, 2013
“each and every Tamil who contributed to fund the LTTE is/was responsible for all the deaths of Sinhalese, Tamils and others for the last 30 years” says reader Upasiri de Silva. Is this Ruhunuputra aware the greatest contribution to VP’s coffers came from the Rajapakses in a sum said to be around Rs.800 million – to change the course of an election that should have rightly gone the way of the pusillimanous Ranil W. Any doubts can be clarified with Mangala S and Tiran A – who facilitated the deal.
R. Varathan
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M.Sivananthan / December 11, 2013
Is it true? If Prabhakaran accepted millions to stop Tamils from voting, who is the real criminal here? Then how do the Tamil fools cry in support of LTTE? Tell this fact to every Tamil and ask them not to support LTTE!
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Lanka liar / December 12, 2013
Mokkan VP got millions. But your God father Doglas stole millions. You know how much.By the way have you cleaned his toilet yet. He is going to be angry. Remember eduction is important so high time you get some soon ok.
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M.Sivananthan / December 14, 2013
hahaha
Smuggler barter traded EELAM to Rajapakse!
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Lanka liar / December 17, 2013
Mokkan
Doe snot make any sense Education is very important you must know? So it is high time to start. Don’t wait for your God fathers instruction ok
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sach / December 11, 2013
So the who facilitated the so called genocide?
Every patriotic lankan should stand with MR no matter whether they like this gov or not!
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manisekaran / December 11, 2013
sach shows his true sinha rascism and all these days he pretended well to shed crocodile tears for tamils.. there is no permanent mask is n’t it?
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Maratoni Makalga / December 11, 2013
Sach and Bachcha
I am standing right behind you in the long queue.
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Upasiri de Silva / December 11, 2013
Varathan if you like to know exactly who funded the LTTE I can give these informations. At the initial stages it was the UNP government and Paskaralingam with the permission of Premadasa gave the funds via contracts manipulation. Later Premadsa gave funds and weapons to get the Indian Army out after allowing Karuna to kill 600 odd Police personals. After that the Tamils world over contributed, some because they feared for the lives of their loved once back home, and others as promised for helping them to get to green pastures. Anyhow it is a foregone conclusion if the TGTE wants one party to be prosecuted for these crimes, then the other party, now supposed to be KP and the TGTE may have to answer to the majority Tamil people to come to a conclusion.
Rajapaksas gave money to LTTE which was a contribution for the Tsunami Aid from WB, as there was no other way to give the money. LTTE never constructed any housing for those displaced from Tsunami, but used them to buy weapons and other artillery. WB is also a party for the annihilation of most Tamils kept as body shields by Prabakaran if we go to fine details of the so called war crimes.
Best to concentrate post 2009 May activities and request some relief for the displaced Tamils still looking to get a roof over their heads and a civilian administration in the NPC.
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Tamil from the north / December 11, 2013
I as a Tamil would love to see these war criminals be charged in the international court of law. But these losers from the TGTE is making a mockery of the suffering the Tamils have gone through in the hands of the Rajapuka brothers, LTTE and their military goons. Sitting in these foreign lands, sending their children to great universities, making good money and on Fridays have a shot of whiskey and talk this kind of nonsense and stir up some crap in Lanka for the suffering Tamils. Oh yeah, this is going to sell soon.
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M.Sivananthan / December 11, 2013
TGTE is a dead donkey. In Canada no one filed any nomination or any voting took place.
What is the point of publishing the coffee time talks of few donkeys with Rudra Kumaran?
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Lanka liar / December 12, 2013
Mokkan why dont you join them. Then you will be the only live donkey among the dead ones. But you smell worse than the dead ones Mokkan.
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M.Sivananthan / December 14, 2013
Madaya!
No Tamil filed any nomination for TGTE elections. Then no elections took place.
Remember Canada has the highest number of SL Tamils after Sri lanka.
Then what is this TGTE? For whose interest?
Will CT do an investigation on this matter instead of publishing reports of a non-existing tea party organization?
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Javi / December 14, 2013
Tadpole (゜゜)～ For whose interest? Tadpole (゜゜)～
fucknation, for caterpillar to turn over a new leaf on New Years Day.
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Lanka liar / December 17, 2013
Mokkan you are becoming more and more Mokkan. Looks like the winter affects you. Try covering your head if you have one.
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AJ / December 11, 2013
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Roi / December 11, 2013
This organization should bear all the responsibilities for all the atrocities LTTE did .
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Native Vedda / December 11, 2013
Roi ………. “This organization should bear all the responsibilities for all the atrocities LTTE did .” ………… I hate to agree with you. … Please take them to ICC let them face the music. ………. I will be right behind you supporting your every effort to punish them. ……… Be a man/woman…… Go on…….
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ANURA / December 11, 2013
Palmsquirrell, you are wrong, there are more LTTE surviving members in the DIE ASS pora, adela B, and all of TGTE , include them , then you can include KP and karuna
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Banana / December 11, 2013
If the SL military and government was hell bent on genocide of tamil people, why should they have stopped at the “alleged” 20k or 30k 40k tamils?
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Paul / December 11, 2013
This from CT will answer your question. The militart did their best to avoid civilian casualties. They fired into the NFZ because the Tigers used their heavy weapons from there hidden behind their ‘beloved women and children of Tamil Eelam’.
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/wikileaks-its-not-genocide-army-could-have-won-the-battle-with-higher-civilian-and-less-army-casualties-icrc-to-us-mission-to-un/
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K.A Sumanasekera / December 11, 2013
…Obtaining Dual Passports to his Supporters… is one of the items in Vellala CM’s Election Manifesto which was drawn up by Sambandan and Sumanthiran in Scarborough….Are these Satyagrahas that the PM of Eelaam International is launching in Toronto London , Paris . New Jersey, Oslo and other EU cities ,in support of this demand ?????… Or PM Rudra couldn’t give a F*** ( Sorry Dr Jagath ) about the Vellala CM or his Duals ?….Is the launch date before or after the Diaspora mentor Mr Cameron delivers his mother of all speeches in Geneva ?…Wonder which countries will contribute arresting and escorting officers, when PM Rudrakumaran obtains arrest warrants and extradition papers from Ms Pillai?….Could it be Harper and Cameron or Harper or Cameron alone , because 52 of the CHOGM Nations wouldn’t have a bar of it ….unless CM Jayalalitha sends a few cops from Tami Nadu……
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Sena / December 11, 2013
Sarath Fonseka is on record to have said that he is willing to defend the Army anywhere but would not assist a few. Its better to ask the General to do it. But do the other RAJA’s have the spine to allow him to do that?
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Javi / December 14, 2013
any day a dead general is better than a like one sarge.
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Rajini Kulatunga / December 11, 2013
So if TGTE has adopted a resolution to prosecute Sri Lankan “military and political actors, That’s dame good ! they should start with their Stateless Prime Minister Rudrakumaran who has been their legal advicer to the LTTE, then they should deal with Nedyavan in Norway and Adle Balasingham in London.
After those prosecutions they should start dealing with the International Political actors like Solheim, Jaylalitha, Haper etc.and after all of them are brought to courts and justice is done to the peace loving people in Sri Lanka, and if the members of the TGTE are still living by then (due to old age) THEY CAN TRY TO PROSECUTE THE SL MILITARY !
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Javi / December 15, 2013
“|”THEY CAN TRY TO PROSECUTE THE SL MILITARY !”|”
Try tasting soylent green like in the days of mattini.
Within a week of LKadir’s murder (by sinhala assisins/ hambantota/ tsunami) Blair had the EU proscribe the tiger – that was the beginning of the safe zone massacre.
Kangaroo because it springs. Monkey because it springs too and is common to the southern Lankans(labour from Malabar brought in by; On 25 March 1505, Francisco de Almeida was appointed Viceroy of India)
Await the “monkey court” courtesy Camaron and Boris. You never fought for independence- fight for it and ask for your paripu drop to survive after the equinox.
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Ajith / December 11, 2013
SL Military represent Sinhalese only.
SL Government represent Sinhalese only.
SL President represent Sinhalese interest only.
SL constitution represent Sinhalese interest only.
SL President, its government, its military violated human rights, abused human rights and misused national resources and committed crimes against humanity.
Don’t worry about TGTE resolution. As a Sri Lankan, explain who was responsible for the murder of Lasantha and other journalists in the day light?
Who ordered the Weliweriya shooting of a innocent civilian?
Who was responsible for the attack on Muslim mosque’s and business places?
Why was the former military commander and former chief justice were taken away from their positions? Do you agree justice was done and the investigation was impartial?
What is the mechanism is acceptable to find the truth about these incidents?
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Rajini Kulatunga / December 11, 2013
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M.Sivananthan / December 14, 2013
Amen!
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nimal dunuhinga / December 11, 2013
you gain what you sow?
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K.A Sumanasekera / December 12, 2013
Tamil Australians who were staunch supporters and financiers of the LTTE and Mr Prabkaran at onetime .don’t have even one Senator ( Is that the correct terminology ) in this 112 Member Cabinet…..But the puny LTTE Tamil New Zealand has a few…..Didn’t . the TNGTE have these Elections Down Under or the Tamil Australians want Dual Passports ?… If it is the latter it will be better for them with the Real Estate in the former motherland skyrocketing, especially in Wellawatta, the Turf where 90 % of Tamil Aussies come from….And they are well off and well educated , according to my Elders….Besides just imagine trying to buy even one bedder with Ocean Views in Melbourne or Sydney to spend the retirement …….
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james / December 12, 2013
TGTE – must be charged for war crimes and crime against humanity
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email / December 13, 2013
The US and UK governments must demand the so called “TGTE” to send people and funds to sri lankan government to clear all the land mines put by the LTTE!!! At the moment, thousands are cleared by our specialized army offices!!!
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MANIVANNAN MP / December 14, 2013
Tribunal support this resolution
Sri Lanka guilty of genocide against Tamils with UK, US complicity: PPT rules
Print 11 DECEMBER 2013 BY RAMANAN VEERASINGHAM
In a landmark judgement that sends shocking waves to many international busy bodies, a very eminent panel of international judges of the Rome-based Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) Tuesday unanimously ruled “Sri Lanka guilty of the crime of genocide against the Eelam Tamil people”, while the US and UK were found to be guilty of complicity to this crime, a PPT statement said Tuesday.
A 11-member high-profile judges, consisting of experts in genocide studies, former UN officials, experts in international law and renowned peace and human rights activists, gave this ruling after a two-day tribunal hearing between December 7 and10 in Bremen, Germany.
“The Second Session of the Peoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka concluded today in Bremen, Germany, with the presentation of its verdict. The panel of eleven judges unanimously found Sri Lanka guilty of the crime of genocide against the Eelam Tamil people, and that this crime continues today,” the PPT statement said Tuesday.
“The UK and USA were found to be guilty of complicity in the crime of genocide, including –complicity by procuring means, such as weapons, instruments or any other means, used to commit genocide, with the accomplice knowing that such means would be used for such a purpose; complicity by knowingly aiding or abetting a perpetrator of a genocide in the planning or enabling acts,” it said.
The PPT however, withheld their decision on India’s complicity to this crime, pending examination of further evidence.
More than 30 direct eye-witnesses and experts testified in support of the Prosecution’s case, providing evidence on various alleged crimes that could be determined to constitute the crime of genocide, as well as on the legal and historical background and the charges of complicity.
“The Tribunal specified that the victims are in this case the Eelam Tamils as a national group. The Tribunal found that genocide against the Eelam Tamil group has not yet achieved the total destruction of their identity. The genocidal coordinated plan of actions reached its climax on May 2009, but it is clear that the Sri Lanka Government project to erase the Eelam Tamil identity, corroborated by the above mentioned conduct, shows that genocide is a process and that process is ongoing,” the PPT statement said.
“Recognizing that the Sri Lankan state alone did not have the capacity to achieve their genocidal ambitions, and given the evidence presented, the Tribunal believes that the UK, the USA and India are guilty of complicity in genocide. However, given time constraints the Tribunal decided to withhold its decision pending the consideration of additional evidence as to the possibility that India, as well as other States, are indeed guilty of complicity in the crime of genocide against the Eelam Tamils,” the PPT statement said.
One of the Co-Chairs of the PPT Panel of judges, Daniel Feierstein, is Director of the Centre for Genocide Studies at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Professor in the Faculty of Genocide at the University of Buenos Aires. He has been elected as the president of the ‘International Association of Genocide Scholars’.
While the other Co-Chairs, Denis Halliday, is a former Assistant Secretary General of the UN when Kofi Annan was the Secretary General. He resigned from his 34 year old career in the UN in protest of the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the Security Council.
This is the second such high-profile session conducted by the PPT on Sri Lanka. The first phase of the Tribunal, held in January 2010 in Dublin, was the first ever international effort to investigate the allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the final stages of the protracted conflict in Sri Lanka.
At the end of the first session of the PTT session on Sri Lanka, the panel of judges had determined, that ‘War Crimes’ and ‘Crimes against Humanity’ had taken place on the Tamil population during the final months of the war in Sri Lanka. It also held that “pressure from the UK and USA governments contributed to the breakdown of 2002 peace process between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Government of Sri Lanka, precipitating the war”.
Following is the full statement issued by General Secretary of the PPT Gianni Tognoni on Tuesday:
The Peoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka ‐ Session II
7th ‐ 10th December 2013 Bremen, Germany
Panel of Judges presents verdict finding Sri Lanka guilty of the crime of genocide against the Eelam Tamil people; the UK and USA were found to be guilty of complicity, while the Judges withheld their decision on India’s complicity pending examination of further evidence.
The Second Session of the Peoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka concluded today in Bremen, Germany, with the presentation of its verdict. The panel of eleven judges unanimously found Sri Lanka guilty of the crime of genocide against the Eelam Tamil people, and that this crime continues today.
The Tribunal found that genocide against the Eelam Tamil group has not yet achieved the total destruction of their identity. The genocidal coordinated plan of actions reached its climax on May 2009, but it is clear that the Sri Lanka Government project to erase the Eelam Tamil identity, corroborated by the above mentioned conduct, shows that genocide is a process and that process is ongoing. The genocidal strategy changed once the perpetrators gained control of the territory. The killings are being transformed into other forms of conduct, but the intention to destroy the group and its identity remains and continues, through causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the Eelam Tamil group.
The Tribunal considers that the proofs established, beyond any reasonable doubt that the following acts were committed by the Government of Sri Lanka
(a) Killing members of the group, which includes massacres, indiscriminate shelling, the strategy of herding civilians into so‐called “No Fire Zones” for the purpose of massive killings, targeted assassinations of outspoken Eelam Tamil civil leaders who were capable of articulating the Sri Lankan genocide project to the outside world.
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, including acts of torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, sexual violence including rape, interrogations combined with beatings, threats of death, and harm that damages health or causes disfigurement or injury.
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, including expulsions of the victims from their homes, * seizures of private lands, * declaring vast areas as military High Security Zone (HSZ) to facilitate the military acquisition of Tamil land.
Further, the Tribunal considered evidence related to
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group including forced sterilization and coerced contraception of Eelam Tamil women. Further investigation is required on the extent of this practice in other regions before a determination is made on whether these could be considered genocidal acts.
The UK and USA were found to be guilty of complicity in the crime of genocide, including
– complicity by procuring means, such as weapons, instruments or any other means, used to commit genocide, with the accomplice knowing that such means would be used for such a purpose;
– complicity by knowingly aiding or abetting a perpetrator of a genocide in the planning or enabling acts thereof;
Recognizing that the Sri Lankan state alone did not have the capacity to achieve their genocidal ambitions, and given the evidence presented, the Tribunal believes that the UK, the USA and India are guilty of complicity in genocide. However, given time constraints the Tribunal decided to withhold its decision pending the consideration of additional evidence as to the possibility that India, as well as other States, are indeed guilty of complicity in the crime of genocide against the Eelam Tamils.
More than 30 direct eye‐witnesses and experts testified in support of the Prosecution’s case, providing evidence on various alleged crimes that could be determined to constitute the crime of genocide, as well as on the legal and historical background and the charges of complicity.
The proceedings of the Second Session were broadcast through live streaming on the Internet and will be made available on the web site http://ptsrilanka.org/
This Second Session in Bremen was convened in response to the determination by the First Session, held in January 2010 in Dublin, Ireland, that War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity had taken place on the Tamil population during the final months of the war in Sri Lanka in early 2009, and that further investigation be undertaken regarding the question of genocide.
These two sessions of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka have been established in response to a submission made by the International Human Rights Association Bremen (IMRV) and the Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka (IFPSL). As in the First Session, here in Bremen a panel of judges consisting of experts in genocide studies, former UN officials, experts in international law and renowned peace and human rights activists.
10 December 2013
International Human Rights Day
PERMANENT PEOPLES’ TRIBUNAL
General Secretary:
GIANNI TOGNONI (ITALY)
GENERAL SECRETARIAT: VIA DELLA DOGANA VECCHIA 5 ‐ 00186 ROME
Tel/Fax:0039 06 6877774
E‐mail; tribunale@internazionaleleliobasso.it;‐ filb@iol.it
Web: http://www.internazionaleleliobasso.it
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M.Sivananthan / December 14, 2013
First learn the meaning of genocide in any dictionary. Then bark.
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Javi / December 15, 2013
No thank you we know it from Greek, then Latin thesaurus.
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Lanka liar / December 17, 2013
Mokkan learning is important. Even your God father passed Grade 8. You too can do it.
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