{"id":60434,"date":"2012-11-16T07:48:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=60434"},"modified":"2012-11-17T23:59:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T23:59:44","slug":"demand-details-of-war-casualties-during-2008-august-to-2009-may-from-unsg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/demand-details-of-war-casualties-during-2008-august-to-2009-may-from-unsg\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand Details Of War Casualties During 2008 August To 2009 May From UNSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kusal+Perera&amp;x=14&amp;y=5\">Kusal Perera<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46092\" style=\"width: 146px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/off-beat-poser-with-a-king-size-shawarma-on-a-gasaa-can-gota-dump-this-regime\/kusal_perera\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46092\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46092\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46092\" title=\"Kusal_Perera\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kusal_Perera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kusal Perera<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The following letter sent to the leaders of the two political parties, UNP and the TNA, on the UN Internal Review Report that was released two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>16 November, 2012<br \/>\nTo Leaders of the UNP and the TNA<br \/>\nRanil Wickramasinghe, MP (Leader of the Opposition)<br \/>\nR. Sampanthan, MP<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Demand details of war casualties during 2008 August to 2009 May from UNSG<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As you by now are aware, the &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/un-failures-in-sri-lanka-on-128-pages-us-and-and-the-rc-did-not-stand-by-the-casualty-numbers\/\">Report of the Secretary-General\u2019s Internal Review Panel on United\u00a0Nations Action in Sri Lanka<\/a><\/span>&#8221; date lined November 2012 and released on 14 November, 2012, now\u00a0accepts the UN has failed in its duty and responsibility, to provide humanitarian access for the UN\u00a0staff to the people trapped within the conflict zone in the Vanni, the physical delivery of assistance\u00a0into the conflict zone, and the freedom of movement for populations to reach assistance, all\u00a0fundamental to the protection of life.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Colombo office, the prime centre in deciding, organising and executing all such\u00a0humanitarian work, had also failed, or consciously decided against providing all necessary details,\u00a0information and numbers they had with them on war casualties during the last phase of the war\u00a0they note as from August 2008 to May 2009, to other UN Agencies, to UNSG and to the public.\u00a0The internal review report says, &#8220;The UN believed there were up to 350,000 civilians, but in its\u00a0internal and public statements made references which oscillated between 150,000 and 350,000,\u00a0and used an assistance-planning figure of 200,000.&#8221; [2. Humanitarian access and obstructions to\u00a0humanitarian assistance \/ No.46 &#8211; page 18 ] This leaves a massive deficit of 150,000 human lives\u00a0unaccounted for. It comes almost close to the 146,679 people missing and unaccounted for, as\u00a0submitted by Rt. Rev Mannar Bishop, Dr. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Rayappu+Joseph&amp;x=7&amp;y=1\">Rayappu Joseph<\/a><\/span> to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=LLRC&amp;x=13&amp;y=6\">LLRC<\/a><\/span>. In around 2011 May,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gordon+Weiss&amp;x=8&amp;y=9\">Gordon Weiss<\/a><\/span> in his book &#8220;The Cage&#8221; also made a very ambiguous explanation as to why he is\u00a0not able to use information he is privy to, as the UN Colombo office decided they would not make\u00a0them public. He argued it is not proper for him to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it is clear it was not proper for the UN Colombo mission to have kept all the information\u00a0and numbers they had gathered, under cover. The UN Internal Review now finds fault for all such\u00a0lapses, giving us the right to now demand all details, information and numbers that were then\u00a0available with the UN, during the last phase of the war, till May 2009.\u00a0I therefore wish to invite you as leaders of the only two political parties represented in parliament\u00a0that had no direct stake in this regime&#8217;s war, to make an official request from the UN Secretary\u00a0General to publish numbers on human casualties due to war during the period August 2008 to<br \/>\nMay 2009, with all relevant details avaialable with the UN Colombo mission and other UN\u00a0agencies, with no further delay.\u00a0Wish you would accept this request in the name of humanity and decency.<br \/>\nThanking you in advance,<br \/>\nYours sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Kusal Perera<br \/>\nJournalist, as a Concerned Citizen<br \/>\ne-mail &lt;kusal.perera@gmail.com&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":46092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[6485,6483,6484],"class_list":["post-60434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial","tag-details-of-war-casualties-sri-lanka","tag-report-of-the-secretary-generals-internal-review-panel-on-united-nations-action-in-sri-lanka","tag-un-internal-report-on-sri-lankas-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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