{"id":75015,"date":"2013-02-25T09:26:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T09:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=75015"},"modified":"2013-02-25T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T09:26:02","slug":"wikileaks-gosl-war-crimes-is-the-most-difficult-issue-on-our-bilateral-agenda-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-gosl-war-crimes-is-the-most-difficult-issue-on-our-bilateral-agenda-us\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: &#8216;GoSL War Crimes Is The Most Difficult Issue On Our Bilateral Agenda&#8217; &#8211; US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u201cAccountability for alleged crimes committed by GSL troops and officials during the war is the most difficult issue on our bilateral agenda. (NOTE: Both the State Department Report to Congress on Incidents during the Conflict and the widely read report by the University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) also detailed many incidents of alleged crimes perpetrated by the LTTE. Most of the LTTE leadership was killed at the end of the war, leaving few to be held responsible for those crimes. The Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) is holding thousands of mid- and lower-level ex-LTTE combatants for future rehabilitation and\/or criminal prosecution. It is unclear whether any such prosecutions will meet international standards. END NOTE.)\u201d the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=US+Embassy+Colombo&amp;x=8&amp;y=6\">US Embassy Colombo<\/a><\/span> informed Washington.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35800\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-sri-lankas-new-friends-cannot-compete-with-her-old-ones-butenis\/butenis-colombo-telegraph-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35800\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35800\" title=\"Butenis - Colombo Telegraph - Copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Butenis-Colombo-Telegraph-Copy-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Butenis-Colombo-Telegraph-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Butenis-Colombo-Telegraph-Copy.jpeg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butenis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Colombo Telegraph found the related leaked cable from the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=WikiLeaks&amp;x=7&amp;y=4\">WikiLeaks<\/a><\/span> database. The cable is classified as \u201cSECRET\u201d and analysed the issues relates to accountability. The cable was written on January 15, 2010 by the US Ambassador to Colombo, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Patricia+A.+Butenis&amp;x=8&amp;y=2\">Patricia A. Butenis<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Butenis wrote; \u201cThere have been some tentative steps on accountability on the GSL side. Soon after the appearance of the State Department report, President <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=11&amp;y=9\">Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span> announced the formation of an experts&#8217; committee to examine the report and to provide him with recommendations on dealing with the allegations. At the end of the year, the president extended the deadline for the committee&#8217;s recommendations from December 31 until April. For his part, General <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sarath+Fonseka&amp;x=7&amp;y=4\">Fonseka<\/a><\/span> has spoken publicly of the need for a new deal with the Tamils and other minorities. Privately, his campaign manager told the Ambassador that Fonseka had ordered the opposition campaign to begin work planning a &#8220;truth and reconciliation&#8221; commission (ref B).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese tentative steps notwithstanding,accountability has not been a high-profile issue in the presidential election &#8212; other than President Rajapaksa&#8217;s promises personally to stand up to any international power or body that would try to prosecute Sri Lankan war heroes. While regrettable, the lack of attention to accountability is not surprising. There are no examples we know of a regime undertaking wholesale investigations of its own troops or senior officials for war crimes while that regime or government remained in power. In Sri Lanka this is further complicated by the fact that responsibility for many of the alleged crimes rests with the country&#8217;s senior civilian and military leadership, including President Rajapaksa and his <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabaya+Rajapaksa&amp;x=8&amp;y=5\">brothers<\/a><\/span> and opposition candidate General Fonseka.\u201d the ambassador further wrote.<\/p>\n<p>We give below the relevant part of the cable;<\/p>\n<p>Related posts to this cable;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-sampanthan-doesnt-discuss-war-crimes-out-of-fear\/\">WikiLeaks: Sampanthan Doesn\u2019t Discuss \u2018War Crimes\u2019 Out Of Fear<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>VZCZCXRO9281\r\nOO RUEHAG RUEHROV RUEHSL\r\nDE RUEHLM #0032\/01 0151223\r\nZNY SSSSS ZZH\r\nO 151223Z JAN 10\r\nFM AMEMBASSY COLOMBO\r\nTO RUEHC\/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 1120\r\nINFO RUCNMEM\/EU MEMBER STATES COLLECTIVE PRIORITY\r\nRUEHKA\/AMEMBASSY DHAKA PRIORITY 2264\r\nRUEHIL\/AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD PRIORITY 9286\r\nRUEHKT\/AMEMBASSY KATHMANDU PRIORITY 7541\r\nRUEHLO\/AMEMBASSY LONDON PRIORITY 5373\r\nRUEHNE\/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI PRIORITY 3699\r\nRUEHNY\/AMEMBASSY OSLO PRIORITY 5298\r\nRUEHOT\/AMEMBASSY OTTAWA PRIORITY 0159\r\nRUEHSM\/AMEMBASSY STOCKHOLM PRIORITY 0824\r\nRUEHKO\/AMEMBASSY TOKYO PRIORITY 4420\r\nRUEHCG\/AMCONSUL CHENNAI PRIORITY 9847\r\nRUEHBI\/AMCONSUL MUMBAI PRIORITY 7136\r\nRUEHON\/AMCONSUL TORONTO PRIORITY 0154\r\nRHEFDIA\/DIA WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY\r\nRUEHGV\/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 0001\r\nRHHMUNA\/HQ USPACOM HONOLULU HI PRIORITY\r\nRUEHBS\/USEU BRUSSELS PRIORITY\r\nRHEHAAA\/NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY\r\nRUEKJCS\/SECDEF WASHDC PRIORITY<\/pre>\n<pre>S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 COLOMBO 000032 \r\n\r\nSIPDIS \r\n\r\nDEPARTMENT FOR SCA\/INSB \r\n\r\nE.O. 12958: DECL: 01\/15\/2020\r\nTAGS: PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE\r\nSUBJECT: SRI LANKA WAR-CRIMES ACCOUNTABILITY: THE TAMIL\r\nPERSPECTIVE \r\n\r\nREF: A. 09 COLOMBO 1180\r\n     \u00b6B. COLOMBO 8 \r\n\r\nCOLOMBO 00000032  001.2 OF 003 \r\n\r\nClassified By: AMBASSADOR PATRICIA A. BUTENIS.  REASONS: 1.4 (B, D)<\/pre>\n<pre>ACCOUNTABILITY AS A POLITICAL ISSUE\r\n----------------------------------- \r\n\r\n<a id=\"par2\" href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/cable\/2010\/01\/10COLOMBO32.html#par2\">\u00b6<\/a>2. (S) Accountability for alleged crimes committed by GSL\r\ntroops and officials during the war is the most difficult\r\nissue on our bilateral agenda.  (NOTE: Both the State\r\nDepartment Report to Congress on Incidents during the\r\nConflict and the widely read report by the University\r\nTeachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) also detailed many\r\nincidents of alleged crimes perpetrated by the LTTE.  Most of\r\nthe LTTE leadership was killed at the end of the war, leaving\r\nfew to be held responsible for those crimes.  The Government\r\nof Sri Lanka (GSL) is holding thousands of mid- and\r\nlower-level ex-LTTE combatants for future rehabilitation\r\nand\/or criminal prosecution.  It is unclear whether any such\r\nprosecutions will meet international standards.  END NOTE.)\r\nThere have been some tentative steps on accountability on the\r\nGSL side.  Soon after the appearance of the State Department\r\nreport, President Rajapaksa announced the formation of an\r\nexperts' committee to examine the report and to provide him\r\nwith recommendations on dealing with the allegations.  At the\r\nend of the year, the president extended the deadline for the\r\ncommittee's recommendations from December 31 until April.\r\nFor his part, General Fonseka has spoken publicly of the need\r\nfor a new deal with the Tamils and other minorities.\r\nPrivately, his campaign manager told the Ambassador that\r\nFonseka had ordered the opposition campaign to begin work\r\nplanning a \"truth and reconciliation\" commission (ref B). \r\n\r\n<a id=\"par3\" href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/cable\/2010\/01\/10COLOMBO32.html#par3\">\u00b6<\/a>3. (S) These tentative steps notwithstanding, accountability\r\nhas not been a high-profile issue in the presidential\r\nelection -- other than President Rajapaksa's promises\r\npersonally to stand up to any international power or body\r\nthat would try to prosecute Sri Lankan war heroes.  While\r\nregrettable, the lack of attention to accountability is not\r\nsurprising.  There are no examples we know of a regime\r\nundertaking wholesale investigations of its own troops or\r\nsenior officials for war crimes while that regime or\r\ngovernment remained in power.  In Sri Lanka this is further\r\ncomplicated by the fact that responsibility for many of the\r\nalleged crimes rests with the country's senior civilian and\r\nmilitary leadership, including President Rajapaksa and his\r\nbrothers and opposition candidate General Fonseka.<\/pre>\n<pre>BUTENIS<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":35800,"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":[1962,2753,1257,6942,6943,2158],"class_list":["post-75015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","category-wikileaks","tag-gotabhaya-in-wikileaks","tag-mahinda-rajapaksa-wikileaks","tag-sarath-fonseka-in-wikileaks","tag-sri-lankan-war-heroes","tag-war-crimes-accountability-sri-lanka-wikileaks","tag-wikileaks-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;GoSL War Crimes Is The Most Difficult Issue On Our Bilateral Agenda&#039; 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