{"id":53948,"date":"2012-09-13T08:39:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T08:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=53948"},"modified":"2012-09-23T18:09:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T18:09:53","slug":"wikileaks-sri-lankan-military-is-taking-revenge-on-the-icrc-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-sri-lankan-military-is-taking-revenge-on-the-icrc-un\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: &#8216;Sri Lankan Military Is Taking Revenge On The ICRC&#8217;  &#8211; UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">ColomboTelegraph<\/a><\/span> \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cA\/S Blake regretted the current state of GSL-ICRC relations, noting the very critical role ICRC had played on human rights and the constructive relationship the GSL had previously had with the ICRC. He asked if Pascoe had raised the ICRC during his visit. Holmes surmised that the Sri Lankan military is taking revenge on the ICRC, which it believes abetted the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in the past. Holmes and Pascoe had asked the ICRC if it wanted help in retaining its mandate in Sri Lanka, but, as usual, the ICRC preferred to fight its own battles. ICRC has explained to the government what it is in Sri Lankato do; if the government does not want it there, it will leave. It has already lost access to former LTTE combatants. Expelling the ICRC, Holmes said, would be &#8220;daft.&#8221; Pascoe noted that he told FM Bogollagama earlier on September 29 thatSri Lankais going to need the ICRC to look after the rights of the 10-15,000 LTTE detainees it is presently holding.\u201d\u00a0US State Department wrote to US Embassy Colombo.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53949\" style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-sri-lankan-military-is-taking-revenge-on-the-icrc-un\/johnholmes\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53949\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53949\" class=\" wp-image-53949 \" title=\"johnHolmes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/johnHolmes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/johnHolmes.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/johnHolmes-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Holmes, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Photo: KEYSTONE<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A classified diplomatic cable which details a meeting the US\u00a0Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Robert Blake<\/span> has had with\u00a0UN officials\u00a0on September 29, 2009.\u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0found the related US diplomatic cable from the\u00a0Secretary of State\u00a0section of the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=WikiLeaks&amp;x=8&amp;y=7\">WikiLeaks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0database. The cable was classified as \u201cConfidential\u201d signed by<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=+Hillary+Clinton&amp;x=10&amp;y=6\">\u00a0Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on September 30 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the relevant parts of the cable;<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>VZCZCXRO8580\r\nOO RUEHBI RUEHCI RUEHNEH RUEHRN\r\nDE RUEHC #2030\/01 2740018\r\nZNY CCCCC ZZH\r\nO P 302358Z SEP 09\r\nFM SECSTATE WASHDC\r\nTO RUEHLM\/AMEMBASSY COLOMBO IMMEDIATE 6041\r\nINFO RUEHRL\/AMEMBASSY BERLIN PRIORITY 3804\r\nRUEHSW\/AMEMBASSY BERN PRIORITY 6614\r\nRUEHBY\/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA PRIORITY 5366\r\nRUEHLO\/AMEMBASSY LONDON PRIORITY 6989\r\nRUEHNE\/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI PRIORITY 6995\r\nRUEHNY\/AMEMBASSY OSLO PRIORITY 8771\r\nRUEHOT\/AMEMBASSY OTTAWA PRIORITY 6777\r\nRUEHFR\/AMEMBASSY PARIS PRIORITY 6530\r\nRUEHRO\/AMEMBASSY ROME PRIORITY 2521\r\nRUEHSM\/AMEMBASSY STOCKHOLM PRIORITY 8154\r\nRUEHTC\/AMEMBASSY THE HAGUE PRIORITY 6500\r\nRUEHKO\/AMEMBASSY TOKYO PRIORITY 0710\r\nRUEHCG\/AMCONSUL CHENNAI PRIORITY 9794\r\nRUEHNEH\/AMCONSUL HYDERABAD PRIORITY 0120\r\nRUEHCI\/AMCONSUL KOLKATA PRIORITY 3417\r\nRUEHBI\/AMCONSUL MUMBAI PRIORITY 2807\r\nRUEHRN\/USMISSION UN ROME PRIORITY 0731\r\nRUCNDT\/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 7963\r\nRUEHBS\/USEU BRUSSELS PRIORITY\r\nRUEHGV\/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 9427<\/pre>\n<pre>C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 STATE 102030 \r\n\r\nSIPDIS \r\n\r\nE.O. 12958: DECL: 09\/30\/2019\r\nTAGS: <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/PREL_0.html\">PREL<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/PGOV_0.html\">PGOV<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/PHUM_0.html\">PHUM<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/PREF_0.html\">PREF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/PTER_0.html\">PTER<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/EAID_0.html\">EAID<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/ICRC_0.html\">ICRC<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/UN_0.html\">UN<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/IN_0.html\">IN<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/CE_0.html\">CE<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tag\/NP_0.html\">NP<\/a>\r\nSUBJECT: SRI LANKA\/NEPAL: SCA A\/S BLAKE'S SEPTEMBER 29,\r\n2009 MEETING WITH UN UNDER-SECRETARY GENERAL FOR POLITICAL\r\nAFFAIRS LYNN PASCOE AND UNDER-SECRETARY GENERAL FOR\r\nHUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS JOHN HOLMES \r\n\r\nClassified By: SCA A\/S Robert O. Blake, Jr.  Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). \r\n\r\n<a id=\"par1\" href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/cable\/2009\/09\/09STATE102030.html#par1\">\u00b6<\/a>1.  (U) September 29, 2009; 12:00 p.m.; New York. \r\n\r\n<a id=\"par2\" href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/cable\/2009\/09\/09STATE102030.html#par2\">\u00b6<\/a>2.  (SBU) Participants: \r\n\r\nU.S.\r\nSCA A\/S Blake\r\nDonald Camp, Senior Area Adviser, USUN\r\nDouglas Mercado, Adviser, Humanitarian Affairs, USUN\r\nAnthony Renzulli (SCA Notetaker) \r\n\r\nUN\r\nU\/SYG for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe\r\nU\/SYG for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes\r\nLisa Buttenheim, Director, Middle East and West Asia\r\nDivision, Dept. of Political Affairs\r\nAnne Gueguen-Mohsen, Political Affairs Officer, Dept. of\r\nPolitical Affairs\r\nAndrew Cox, Chief of Staff to U\/SYG Holmes \r\n\r\n<a id=\"par3\" href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/cable\/2009\/09\/09STATE102030.html#par3\">\u00b6<\/a>3.  (C) SUMMARY.  In a September 29 meeting on the margins of\r\nthe UN General Assembly, UN Under-Secretaries General Pascoe\r\nand Holmes questioned the government of Sri Lanka's\r\ncredibility, especially on IDP returns, but said top UN\r\nofficials would continue to press the GSL on the importance\r\nof allowing freedom of movement.  The UN will not support new\r\nclosed transit camps, and is urging that screened and\r\nlow-risk IDPs be given freedom of movement.  A\/S Blake\r\nexpressed appreciation that U.S. and UN messages are in\r\nsynch.  Pascoe and Holmes offered to reinforce to GSL\r\nofficials the importance of retaining the International\r\nCommittee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Sri Lanka, but have been\r\nasked by the ICRC to let it fight its own battles.  Pascoe\r\ndoubted that the GSL was prepared to take meaningful steps on\r\naccountability in the near-term before elections in early\r\n2010, but suggested that a process for political\r\nreconciliation was beginning to take off.  Blake briefed on\r\nthe draft report to Congress on violations of international\r\nhumanitarian law by both sides during the war.  On Nepal,\r\nPascoe noted concern about the government's lack of urgency\r\nto bring the Maoists back into the political process; India\r\ntoo seemed complacent.  The status quo risks a return to\r\nviolence, he said. END SUMMARY.<\/pre>\n<pre>----\r\nICRC\r\n---- \r\n\r\n<a id=\"par8\" href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/cable\/2009\/09\/09STATE102030.html#par8\">\u00b6<\/a>8.  (C) A\/S Blake regretted the current state of GSL-ICRC\r\nrelations, noting the very critical role ICRC had played on\r\nhuman rights and the constructive relationship the GSL had\r\npreviously had with the ICRC.  He asked if Pascoe had raised\r\nthe ICRC during his visit.  Holmes surmised that the Sri\r\nLankan military is taking revenge on the ICRC, which it\r\nbelieves abetted the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in the past.  Holmes\r\nand Pascoe had asked the ICRC if it wanted help in retaining\r\nits mandate in Sri Lanka, but, as usual, the ICRC preferred\r\nto fight its own battles.  ICRC has explained to the\r\ngovernment what it is in Sri Lanka to do; if the government\r\ndoes not want it there, it will leave.  It has already lost\r\naccess to former LTTE combatants.  Expelling the ICRC, Holmes\r\nsaid, would be \"daft.\"  Pascoe noted that he told FM\r\nBogollagama earlier on September 29 that Sri Lanka is going\r\nto need the ICRC to look after the rights of the 10-15,000\r\nLTTE detainees it is presently holding.<\/pre>\n<pre>CLINTON<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":53949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375,27],"tags":[4677,4676,4678,4675,4668],"class_list":["post-53948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","category-wikileaks","tag-gsl-icrc-relations-in-wikileaks","tag-john-holmes-on-sri-lanka","tag-sri-lanka-ltte-war-in-wikileaks","tag-sri-lankan-military-is-taking-revenge-on-the-icrc","tag-us-state-department-cables-on-sri-lanka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WikiLeaks: &#039;Sri Lankan Military Is Taking Revenge On The ICRC&#039; 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