{"id":145267,"date":"2015-05-29T00:10:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T18:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=145267"},"modified":"2015-05-29T03:06:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T21:36:26","slug":"sri-lankan-govt-systematically-violating-human-rights-of-tamils-other-minorities-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-govt-systematically-violating-human-rights-of-tamils-other-minorities-new-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Govt. Systematically Violating Human Rights Of Tamils &#038; Other Minorities: New Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/OI_The_Long_Shadow_of_War_0.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">new report<\/span><\/a> on the state of human rights in Sri Lanka finds that a silent war continues in which thousands of Tamils, mostly Hindus and Christians, are still internally displaced and subject to military occupation and fierce discrimination by the predominantly Buddhist Sinhalese majority.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_145271\" style=\"width: 351px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Oakland-Institute-Anuradha-Mittal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145271\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Oakland-Institute-Anuradha-Mittal.jpg\" alt=\"Anuradha Mittal is the founder and executive director of the Oakland Institute\" width=\"341\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Oakland-Institute-Anuradha-Mittal.jpg 341w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Oakland-Institute-Anuradha-Mittal-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-145271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anuradha Mittal is the founder and executive director of the Oakland Institute<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The new report &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/OI_The_Long_Shadow_of_War_0.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Long Shadow of War: Struggle for Justice in Post War Sri Lanka<\/span><\/a>&#8221;\u00a0by the US-based think tank the Oakland Institute finds;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6 years after the end of the war, the traditional Tamil homeland is still under heavy military occupation by at least 160,000 mostly Sinhalese soldiers, one for every 6 Tamil civilians.<\/li>\n<li>The army has engaged in large-scale property development, running luxury tourist resorts and business ventures on land seized from local populations. Thousands of Tamil families remain displaced on their own land, helpless witnesses of this \u2018development\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Tamil culture and history are being systematically suppressed by a government-led effort to construct victory monuments and Buddhist shrines that speak to Sinhalese domination in former Tamil homelands, where even now few Buddhists live.<\/li>\n<li>Thousands of people continue to be missing since the war ended in spite of the government\u2019s promise to engage in a process of truth and reconciliation. A 2012 UN report referred to more than 70,000 missing while other estimates are twice that number.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;While much has been made of the peaceful government transition that took place after elections in January of this year, the investigators raise concerns as to whether the new President Sirisena, has the political will or space to deal with these issues.&#8221; says the Oakland Institute.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u201cThe recent appointment of Major General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Jagath+Dias&amp;x=11&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jagath Dias<\/span><\/a> as the Army Chief of Staff, one of the armed forces\u2019 highest post, despite the fact that under his command the 57th division was implicated in serious human rights abuses, rebuffs current government pledges to credibly investigate alleged war crimes through a domestic accountability mechanism,\u201d said\u00a0an internationally renowned expert on human rights and land issues and executive director of the Oakland Institute, Anuradha Mittal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a vital moment for the future of Sri Lanka. Until the new government takes decisive action to curtail and reverse the colonization process, truly replacing the culture of impunity with a culture of responsibility and accountability, there is little hope that the Tamils and other minorities will be treated justly. It should be the responsibility of the international community, and not a political dilemma, to ensure the human and land rights of the minorities in Sri Lanka,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Read the report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/OI_The_Long_Shadow_of_War_0.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":145273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sri Lankan Govt. 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