UN must act against Sri Lankan war Crimes!

-DR. ABDUL RUFF COLACHAL 

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Every nation, especially the terrocracies killing humans with the weapons they buy from foreign markets on resources that belong to people, justifies state murders, fro whatever reasons, as legitimate ones. .

World bodies like the UN, UNSC, ICJ and International Criminal Court, standing or hiding behind the big powers led by USA-UK twins, watch state murders as a routine legalized war on people. This act of roguism on the part of world powers and international bodies encourages the state military to attack and kill people at will.   

South Asia perhaps leads state terror index in Asia. While India and Pakistan keep killing their own citizens just by calling them terrorists, Bangladesh is not legging behind in its monstrous attitude towards its own people.

Sri Lankan military, taking full advantage of global terror war  launched by Pentagon-CIA twins  on Islam and humanity,  has launched a deadly  war on  its Tamil population , ostensibly to end  LTTE terrorism, killing Tamils as freely as jungle beasts do. .

The killing of surrendering rebels amounts to war crimes by the state, howsoever  big or important the  nation that  commits them could be. . The UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva has been selective in issues ( it hardly thinks  Israel ever attacked Palestinians or killed them)  But UNHRC is targeting Sri Lanka for its  genocides of Tamils (LTTE ) in the country.

Washington keeps up its pressure on Sri Lanka to drop its ties to China, which has become a major supplier of military hardware to the island nation, loans and aid to President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government. 

The USA has declared that it will present a resolution on Sri Lanka, for the third year in a row, calling for a probe into human rights violations.

Washington had fully backed the Rajapakse government when it tore up a ceasefire agreement with the LTTE and renewed military offensives in 2006. It provided vital military assistance to the Sri Lankan army and remained silent amid mounting evidence of its atrocities. 

The USA and its European and partners are also directly responsible for these atrocities, and are now exploiting them purely for their own geo-strategic purposes.

Now in aid to US effort to bully Colombo, the Australian-based International Crimes Evidence Project (ICEP) has provided new evidence of the Sri Lankan government’s war crimes during the final months of its military offensive against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009. 

The report contains damning evidence of the killings of surrendering LTTE leaders. the ICEP report sheds further light on the killings of the LTTE’s political wing leaders, Balasingham Mahendran (Nadesan) and Seevaratnam Pulidevan (Pulidevan), a LTTE military commander, Colonel Thambirasa Thurairasingam (Ramesh), LTTE news reader, Isaipriya and Balachandran, the 12-year-old son of LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran..

The report concludes: “There are reasonable grounds to suspect one or more SFs soldiers committed the war crime of murder by killing Balachandran who was a civilian, taking no active part in hostilities when he was allegedly in SFs custody at the time of his death.”

The Rajapakse regime repeatedly denied that any war crimes were committed without offering any substantiation, the Sri Lankan military which conducted the  ghastly attack also rejected the report as baseless.. 

Colombo regime deliberately denied any chance for peace by allowing the Tamils to surrender and join the mainstream as they wanted and Rajapakse wanted to commit deadly massacre spree to ruthlessly kill the Tamils on an understanding with Indian regime.  

The UN report basing on the UN Human Rights Council said the readiness of the two LTTE leaders to surrender was notified to the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the governments of Norway, the UK and the US. But both were shot dead by the Sri Lanka army. The ICEP report collected new eyewitness accounts of the surrender by leaders one by one.  

India encouraged Tamils in Sri Lanka to seek separate nation and, later, supported the Colombo regime in killing the Tamils. Tamils have a state in India, called now as Tamil Nadu. .

It is not just  human rights violation but  gravest possible crime  against humanity, Sri Lanka wanted peace on its own terms, but later wanted blood shod of Tamils on its own   terror plan.

An independent and comprehensive international investigation is needed into these alleged violations of international war.

There should be some firm control over the state murders in any nation in future and no regime should be empowered to kill people, its own or other others, as its prerogative.  .