Should World Countries Ban SriLanka for its war crimes

[Brisingr]

oh dear and you failed to include INDIA in the list.


Have some balls and include Indian Occupied Kashmir as well as North East India, and oh dont forget to include Mezoram where India used air bombardment.

for your information Peshawar is not closed to foreign jouranlists. Have a heart man.

Yeah Darling...just acting like smart one dont really make you smart.
Get in to this wikipedia link
Human rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and go thro the list. You guys were mischevious once if not now, and secured a place in that list.

 

[Spring Onion]

Tamil diaspora is responsible for crimes against humanity
By Anil Perera
A person who pays a hired killer to kill someone is as guilty as the killer himself for the murder. In a court of law both can be found guilty on the charge of murder. The Tamil diaspora who funds the LTTE's crimes against humanity is as guilty as the LTTE for the crimes committed by them.


During the last quarter of century the LTTE have killed thousands of innocent Sinhalese and Muslim men, women and children just because they happened to be non-Tamil. Anuradhapura massacre where 146 Sinhalese pilgrims were brutally shot dead by the LTTE killers, Kattankudy mosque massacre where 147 Muslims praying in a mosque were killed by the LTTE, Habarana bus massacre where 127 Sinhalese were killed by the LTTE and the killing of 32 Buddhist monks at Aranthalawa are some of the heinous crimes committed by the LTTE against unarmed civilians. The carnage is not stopped even now. On 21 February 2009 the LTTE terrorists killed 21 Sinhalese civilians in Inginiyagala. If I were to list all the atrocities committed by LTTE against non-combatant civilians it would run into over twenty pages.


The Tamil diaspora who supports the LTTE are as guilty as the LTTE for these crimes against humanity. Over the years I have heard many people (including some Sinhalese cretins) defending these attacks. Some say that these attacks were retaliations against attacks by the Sri Lankan government forces. When I ask them why they killed Sinhala civilians when the IPKF was in Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan government forces were confined to barracks they do not have answers. When I ask them why they killed Muslims these idiots do not have an answer. The killings were done not only in Eastern and Northern Provinces. Scores of civilians were brutally killed by the LTTE in Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa and Monaragala districts too. Most of the bombing of passenger buses and trains were done in Colombo.


Despite all these crimes committed against our own people, by our hated enemy - the LTTE there are some Sinhalese who patronise known LTTE supporters. These LTTE supporters fund the killings of our own brothers and sisters, encourage and support most heinous crimes against our kith and kin, and do not feel any remorse on the killings they willingly fund. Yet some of our people accept them as friends, socialise with them and even defend them.


How would a Tamil person feel about a Sinhalese who supported, encouraged or participated in July 1983 riots against Tamils? I have not met any Sinhalese who defends the 1983 July riots. We know that it was wrong, we admit that it was wrong and we condemn it as wrong. The crimes committed by the LTTE against Sinhalese and Muslim civilians are hundred times worse. A week long riot against Tamils cannot be compared to twenty five years of atrocities against Sinhalese and Muslims. Yet majority of Tamil diaspora support these crimes against Sinhala civilians, fund these crimes and try to defend these crimes without any hesitation.

If anyone supports the LTTE criminals then we should understand that he or she is responsible for the deaths of our own people in Sri Lanka. He or she is responsible for crimes against humanity. He or she cannot be a part of a civilised society. These despicable people cannot be our friends!

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[Brisingr]

Tamil diaspora is responsible for crimes against humanity
By Anil Perera
A person who pays a hired killer to kill someone is as guilty as the killer himself for the murder. In a court of law both can be found guilty on the charge of murder. The Tamil diaspora who funds the LTTE's crimes against humanity is as guilty as the LTTE for the crimes committed by them.


During the last quarter of century the LTTE have killed thousands of innocent Sinhalese and Muslim men, women and children just because they happened to be non-Tamil. Anuradhapura massacre where 146 Sinhalese pilgrims were brutally shot dead by the LTTE killers, Kattankudy mosque massacre where 147 Muslims praying in a mosque were killed by the LTTE, Habarana bus massacre where 127 Sinhalese were killed by the LTTE and the killing of 32 Buddhist monks at Aranthalawa are some of the heinous crimes committed by the LTTE against unarmed civilians. The carnage is not stopped even now. On 21 February 2009 the LTTE terrorists killed 21 Sinhalese civilians in Inginiyagala. If I were to list all the atrocities committed by LTTE against non-combatant civilians it would run into over twenty pages.


The Tamil diaspora who supports the LTTE are as guilty as the LTTE for these crimes against humanity. Over the years I have heard many people (including some Sinhalese cretins) defending these attacks. Some say that these attacks were retaliations against attacks by the Sri Lankan government forces. When I ask them why they killed Sinhala civilians when the IPKF was in Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan government forces were confined to barracks they do not have answers. When I ask them why they killed Muslims these idiots do not have an answer. The killings were done not only in Eastern and Northern Provinces. Scores of civilians were brutally killed by the LTTE in Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa and Monaragala districts too. Most of the bombing of passenger buses and trains were done in Colombo.


Despite all these crimes committed against our own people, by our hated enemy - the LTTE there are some Sinhalese who patronise known LTTE supporters. These LTTE supporters fund the killings of our own brothers and sisters, encourage and support most heinous crimes against our kith and kin, and do not feel any remorse on the killings they willingly fund. Yet some of our people accept them as friends, socialise with them and even defend them.


How would a Tamil person feel about a Sinhalese who supported, encouraged or participated in July 1983 riots against Tamils? I have not met any Sinhalese who defends the 1983 July riots. We know that it was wrong, we admit that it was wrong and we condemn it as wrong. The crimes committed by the LTTE against Sinhalese and Muslim civilians are hundred times worse. A week long riot against Tamils cannot be compared to twenty five years of atrocities against Sinhalese and Muslims. Yet majority of Tamil diaspora support these crimes against Sinhala civilians, fund these crimes and try to defend these crimes without any hesitation.

If anyone supports the LTTE criminals then we should understand that he or she is responsible for the deaths of our own people in Sri Lanka. He or she is responsible for crimes against humanity. He or she cannot be a part of a civilised society. These despicable people cannot be our friends!

LankaWeb News

Extracts form one of my previous posting
"Once again, many of our "educated & learned" readers of this blog have shown their utter ignorance of the international law. One says "what about war crimes perpetrated by the LTTE?". Hillarious! What is LTTE? A terrorist organization. Who expects Bin Laden to respect the norms of the civilized world? Who expects Prabakaran to respect the same? But can a democratically elected government in a democratic country ignore the responsibilities towards its own civilian population? Majority of the above comments have forgotten this. It is a shame!"

I'm trying to put a rational argument and nothing emotional. I'm not defending LTTE and i knew they went too far during their later stages of civil war forgetting the very purpose of their existence. I strongly believe they must be punished for their crimes. I'm not here justifying their crimes. Instead of saving the lives of innocent civilians they risked them all. Instead of taking a diplomatic stand they believed bullet for a bullet and paid their price. They should have taken a stand like DalaiLama in tibet long before and must have tried to escalate the humanitarian issues to the world countries and UN in a peaceful way. I hold LTTE responsible for many murders they committed.

Could you understand this jana.
The question here is whether SLG went way beyond its limits committing inhuman crimes in the process of crushing the rebels. Whether it had forgotten its moral responsibilities as a state govt failed protecting sovereignty of the ethnic minorities...For commiting such attrocities LTTE were tagged as terrorists and banned in 36 countries to follow suit why not world countries demand an explanation from SLG and if found guilty punish the persons behind in the international court... This is my only concern here

 

[Spring Onion]

I'm trying to put a rational argument and nothing emotional. I'm not defending LTTE and i knew they went too far during their later stages of civil war forgetting the very purpose of their existence.

Could you understand this jana.
The question here is whether SLG went way beyond its limits committing inhuman crimes in the process of crushing the rebels. Whether it had forgotten its moral responsibilities as a state govt failed protecting sovereignty of the ethnic minorities...

Your argument does not hold any rationality when you being an Indian are not ready to apply the same argument about India for crimes against innocent Kashmiris in Held Jammu and Kashmir, when you are not appyling the same logic of human rights violation to Indian in case of Operation Blue star wherein mass murder of Indian Sikhs was committed by Indian Government, when you do not apply the same logic to Indian continued killing of people in its North East.

So dear your argument about Sri Lanka is nothing but support to LTTE terrorists.

If you are so worried over the issue then why you do not criticise Indian Govt for committing the same crime

 

[bigmoneymaker]

sri lanka fought their way through. only by eliminating the insurgency sl has its tomorrow no more be terrified by blood scent when internal commotipn is over and those who point finger at sl are not so morally upright to sanction sl. that is all.

 

[AcidPop]

Srilankan CENSUS reports- REAL ROAD MAP of ETHNIC CLEANSING

Some Real facts to show the world GOSL's true color
The 'nava pancha bala vegaya' has been striving very hard to alter the Eastern demography. It has backing right at the top and involves sections of the Buddhist clergy, security forces, bureaucrats, businessman and politicians.

The objectives of their agenda is to make Sinhala people the single largest ethnic group in the Eastern Province. The master plan envisages demographic changes through state aided settlements, tourism development and a Buddhist revival in Ampara District and agro-business promotion in the Toppigala areas in Batticaloa District.

Facts and figures about population growth will help to illustrate how demography patterns have been unnaturally altered or distorted through state aided colonisation, demarcation of new political and administrative units and accelerated irrigation schemes in the Eastern Province.

The Eastern Province is 3,839 sq. miles in extent. Originally Trincomalee 1,016 sq. miles and Batticaloa 2,823 sq. miles were the districts in this province. According to the 1921 census, the Sinhalese were 3% of the population in the Trincomalee District and 4.5% in the combined Batticaloa and Ampara District. The Sinhalese were less than 4% in the whole Eastern Province.

The Batticaloa District was divided into the present Ampara District 1,775 sq. miles and Batticaloa District 1,048 sq. miles in 1961. Details of the 1981 population in the Eastern Province.


Population Increase between 1949 and 1981

Tamil population increased from 136,059 to 411,451 - 302%, Muslim population increased from 109,024 to 315,201 - 289%, Sinhalese population increased from 27,556 to 243,358 - 883%. The National average increase of Sinhalese during this period is only 238%. The sudden increase of Sinhala population is the result of Government planed Sinhala Colonisation in Gal-oya, Pannal-oya, and Ambalam-oya in Ampara District, and Kanthalai, Allai, Morawewa, Muthalikkulam, Pathaviya (Part), and Mahadiuluwewa schemes in Trincomalee District.

 

[Brisingr]

Your argument does not hold any rationality when you being an Indian are not ready to apply the same argument about India for crimes against innocent Kashmiris in Held Jammu and Kashmir, when you are not appyling the same logic of human rights violation to Indian in case of Operation Blue star wherein mass murder of Indian Sikhs was committed by Indian Government, when you do not apply the same logic to Indian continued killing of people in its North East.

So dear your argument about Sri Lanka is nothing but support to LTTE terrorists.

If you are so worried over the issue then why you do not criticise Indian Govt for committing the same crime

Start a separate thread to criticise Indian Govt with the support of real facts and not just speculations. If you could provide genuine facts you may count on me.
BTW i dont say neither India nor other world countries hands are clean and we have a harmonious society outside SriLanka. Human rights violation are there in India too. These kind of fanatics are there all over the world.
Ex:MNS in Mumbai and few Political parties in TN creating some ripples there disturbing the peace of the society, GOI cracked its wip and they are very well under control now. I definitely claim we have a controlled rate of crime and violation of human rights. GOI handles these issues far better when compared to China, Pakistan or many world countries.
Just because human rights violation is there all around you don't give you right or authorise you to commit the same. Pointing your finger on Iraq, Afghanistan or any other part of the world is not an excuse for SriLankas behavior. If you say only clean hands can only punish a criminal then the entire judicial system will go for a stray. We have predefined norms and laws to protect the human society. To punish a rouge only check whether he has violated these laws and don’t turn your self into a devils advocate searching for excuses.

 

[AcidPop]

Sri Lanka behind closed doors


Source: ODI - Humanitarian Practice Network (ODI-HPN)

Date: 26 Oct 2009


by Pierre Salignon, former Project director of the Health and Nutrition Tracking Service (2008-2009) and former Director of MSF France (2003-2007)

In early July 2009, following on from the closing weeks of fighting between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil Tiger rebels (LTTE), a Times journalist raised the alarm on the mortality rate in the internment camps, opened by the Sri Lankan government. The article reported 1,400 deaths a week in Manik Farm camp, which then held around 280,000 people. Presenting no methodology or basis for this figure, and without naming any names, the journalist cited "a humanitarian source". [1] This was a serious accusation, corresponding to a rate of 7 deaths per 10,000 persons per day. The emergency threshold applied in crises stands at 1 per 10,000 per day. In other words, according to The Times' survey the internally displaced in Manik Farm were dying en masse, "mainly due to the sanitary conditions", deprivations and a lack of assistance.

Contradictory estimates

Unsurprisingly, the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health's version of events differed from the British journalist'report. According to a bulletin covering the period 15th June to 15th July 2009, an average of 5 to 6 people died every day in Manik Farm camp - a mortality rate of under 0.25 deaths per 10,000 per day (the official national average in Sri Lanka stands at 0.15 per 10,000 per day). [2] Despite the ferocity of the fighting during the conflict's final weeks, the Sri Lankan authorities found no cause for concern in the camps in June and July – when the Times was concluding the opposite.

How can such troubling and contradictory estimates be explained? Given the lack of access to more specific data, we should turn to other sources. What do NGOs and others present in the field have to say?

NGOs unable to evaluate the needs

NGOs describe the difficult working conditions and intimidation endured at the hands of the authorities. Operational space is restricted as well as the capacity to evaluate the needs of civilians. NGOs and the UN all work under the government's thumb, with little or no access to the camps. Allowed only occasional and tightly supervised visits, they have had no choice but to operate outside the camps' perimeters. Survivors are transported to health facilities by the military or police. The general perception is that the patients they receive are the "presentable" ones making it difficult to ascertain the true situation.

Whilst NGOs generally agree on the particularly deadly nature of the conflict and the dire state of survivors on arrival in the camps, humanitarian workers do not accept the Times' data published in July. One aid worker insisted "200 deaths a week: we would have known about it". Granted, "the health situation is far from perfect, and providing assistance to more than 280,000 internally displaced persons battered by several months of war takes a little time. But even so, from that to such a high number of deaths… it is impossible".

A fragile situation, but under control

Despite the restrictions cited above, humanitarian workers have managed to gather some hard data. In June 2009, a morgue receiving the camps' deceased, based in a hospital in Vavuniya district, recorded 10 to 15 corpses a day. This mortality rate approaches the emergency threshold for South East Asia, but is still far less than the rates observed by humanitarian workers during other crises, particularly in Africa. Thus mortality in the internally displaced camps did not seem "unduly high" at the onset of summer, although no one can confirm the authorities' count.

The humanitarian dilemma: stay silent but involved, or speak out and be expelled

At present, there are more human rights concerns about the situation than medical ones. Allegations of human rights violations against the internally displaced abound, including a number of reported disappearances and summary executions. There are no figures available, but the authorities reject outright the accusations levied by human rights organisations. According to the Sri Lankan government, the situation is in the process of being normalised. Now the war is over, NGOs should start preparing to leave.

Humanitarian workers face a dilemma: Should they stay silent but involved, or speak out and be expelled? Are NGOs and the UN assisting a population in distress or are they accomplices in a large scale internment operation?

Diplomatic pressure is required

There are still too many worrying unknowns concerning the conditions of the internally displaced in these camps. In crisis situations, epidemiological methods exist for measuring the human consequences of man-made disasters. In Darfur, the DRC or elsewhere, aid workers conduct regular surveys - on the level of mortality rates or on the coverage of needs - to guide activities and adapt assistance.

In Sri Lanka, information collection and circulation is barred. The authorities discourage independent surveys. The impediments here are political, not technical. Without international diplomatic pressure applied to the Colombo government the fate of the internally displaced will remain solely in the hands of the authorities.... while those of humanitarian workers are tied.

 

[Spring Onion]

lolz seems no country in the region is safe from Indian propaganda .

India should also be investigated for supporting LTTE terrorists and their killing of innocent Sri Lankans

 

[AcidPop]

UN Rejects Calls for Sri Lanka War Crimes Inquiry

Tamil civilians stand behind a barbed-wire fence in a refugee camp located on the outskirts of the northern Sri Lankan town of Vavuniya. Photograph: David Gray/Reuters
Sri Lanka last night scored a major propaganda coup when the UN human rights council praised its victory over the Tamil Tigers and refused calls to investigate allegations of war crimes by both sides in the final chapter of a bloody 25-year conflict.

In a shock move, which dismayed western nations critical of Sri Lanka's approach, the island's diplomats succeeded in lobbying enough of its south Asian allies to pass a resolution describing the conflict as a "domestic matter that doesn't warrant outside interference".

The Geneva council session, called because of alarm over the high number of civilian casualties as well as the island's treatment of displaced Tamil civilians, also condemned the Tamil Tigers for using ordinary people as human shields.

In another controversial development, it supported the Sri Lankan government's decision to provide aid groups only with "access as may be appropriate" to refugee camps.

The Sri Lankan government denies it was responsible for the death of even one of the 7,000 civilians the UN estimates were killed in the first four months of the year.

Sri Lanka's human rights minister, Mahinda Samarasinghe, said: "This is a strong endorsement of our president's efforts to rout terrorism, and the successful handling of the world's biggest hostage crisis.

"This is a clear message that the international community is behind Sri Lanka."

Amnesty International described the vote as "extremely disappointing" and a "low point for the human rights council", with a spokesperson saying: "It abandons hundreds of thousands of people in Sri Lanka to cynical political considerations."

European countries, along with Canada, Chile and Mexico had backed an investigation into allegations that the Tigers prevented civilians from leaving the densely populated conflict zone, and that government forces used heavy artillery on the area and killed rebels trying to surrender.

They also urged Sri Lanka to open up refugee camps fully to international aid agencies.

The Red Cross and other groups say they remain barred from visiting some camps despite repeated requests for access.

Aid groups want to check on conditions for the hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced by the fighting.

The Red Cross – which usually refrains from publicly criticizing governments – complained Sri Lanka had denied it access to the war zone during the final weeks of the conflict.

Sri Lanka's ambassador in Geneva said European nations had failed with a "punitive and mean-spirited agenda" against his country.

"This was a lesson that a handful of countries which depict themselves as the international community do not really constitute the majority," Dayan Jayatilleka told the Associated Press.

"The vast mass of humanity are in support of Sri Lanka."

The UN human rights council has no enforcement power, but countries are generally keen to avoid criticism and the negative attention its resolutions bring.
© Guardian News & Media 2008
Published: 5/28/2009

 

[manishmaithani]

lolz seems no country in the region is safe from Indian propaganda .

India should also be investigated for supporting LTTE terrorists and their killing of innocent Sri Lankans

does you have any knowledge about India and Sri lanka relation ?

i think you or other people as you never met a sri lankan in your life

so you are making statement about srilanka and india relation

first visit lanka or read about srilanka and india relation then give a statement.

 

[Spring Onion]

does you have any knowledge about India and Sri lanka relation ?

i think you or other people as you never met a sri lankan in your life

so you are making statement about srilanka and india relation

first visit lanka or read about srilanka and india relation then give a statement.

I know Sri Lankans more than you know. But yeh may be for India LTTE people are the only ones that qualify for being Sri Lankans.

And oh my dear dont force me to post about how Indian created terrorist organisation LTTE and how Indian funded this terror organisation for fomenting terrorism and suicide bombing in Sri Lanka, and how India supported the killings of innocent Sri Lankans at the hands of LTTE terrorists.

And how India given sheltter to LTTE terrorists in Tamil Nadu even when IPKF were figting in SL.

And also do not force me to post how after Sri Lanka defeated LTTE, Indians have become restless and now propagating against SL.

 

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Tamils languishing in Sri Lankan Death Camps

Children held at Gun Point in Menik Farm IDP


"The time has come for the whole Sinhala race which has existed for 2,500 years, jealously safeguarding their language and religion, to fight without giving any quarter to save their birthright. I will lead the campaign."
Former Sri Lankan President J R Jayawardene

"I strongly believe that this country belongs to the Sinhalese”
General Sarath Fonseka, Commander of the Sri Lanka Army


Knowingly or unknowingly, we have all been witnessing one of the darkest chapters in humanity, now being written by the blood of innocent civilians in a land that was once known as Pearl of the Indian Ocean. The ugliest part of this chapter is not what is happening to the innocents but the response from the civilised world that has so far failed miserably to save the lives, although it has the power to act.

Sri Lankan authorities have recently claimed that thirty years of civil war was over and Sri Lanka had defeated Terrorism in this island.

In reality, the so called "War on Terror" is over, deceptive Humanitarian and rescue operations are over but "War on the Innocent Minority Tamils" that started almost two thousands years ago is still continuing and it has now taken a new dangerous turn.




Many of us studied in our history lessons about concentration camps and extermination camps that were operating in Europe during world war two. We were shocked, when we heard about how innocent Jewish people were killed by the Nazis in gas chambers.




Some of us have even written research papers and spent years studying about these notorious Death Camps. We have the systems and procedures in place to stop something like this being repeated in the future. International Humanitarian Organisations have genocide alert mechanisms in place for rapid action.

World leaders very often visit the Auschwitz extermination camps in Poland and make statements like "We will not allow something like this to happen in the future" or “Never again”.

Jewish children behind Barbed wires 1945


Sadly, Genocide is taking place silently in a far away land but many have so far failed to acknowledge it. We have now become a selfish generation that is good at making regret speeches and look for scapegoats once the tragedy is over, instead of doing something constructive to save lives when it is the right time to act.

We don't even like to use the word Genocide when it is happening but we would write hundreds of books after it had happened.


It is happening again

While the Sinhala Buddhist extremists in Sri Lanka are celebrating their victory with flags and fire crackers, while the leaders of this country are dining in five star hotels, while the Sinhala youth in the capital city are singing and dancing in the night clubs, while the holy ones of the land are throwing flowers and perfumes at the feet of the Buddha statues, three hundred thousands Tamils are persecuted inside controversial Nazi style Barbed wired Concentration camps , that are operating just 150 miles away from the capital of Sri Lanka.

Tamil children behind barbed wires 2009

The people in these camps once lived in their own homes. Farmers, fishermen, priests, doctors, nurses, engineers, lawyers, principals, teachers, civil officers and people from all walks life, who once lived happily, are now let to suffer in the torture chambers of Sri Lanka.

Seeing innocents with hunger and sickness brings us back the memories of starving people in Ethiopia, but the difference in Sri Lanka is that these people are not confronted with a natural disaster. They have been forced into starvation, sickness and death deliberately so that the Sri Lankan masters can fulfil their racist agendas and hide the war crimes that were committed in the recent war against the Tamil rebels.

Many of these people owned farms and lands, they had savings, they still have many relatives living in other parts of the country and overseas, who are willing and able to help. Sri Lankan authorities are not allowing anybody to rescue these people from these torture camps, instead they are coming up with all kind of excuses to stop any help reaching to the needy, so that they can continue with their hidden agendas.

 

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Sri Lanka's war-crimes probe a smokescreen: activists


They are not protected by the laws of the land. Even God turned his back towards this slain innocent child.

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's agreement to probe war crimes allegations related to its defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels is a smokescreen to avoid an international inquiry, a human rights group said Wednesday.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Sri Lanka of trying to buy time and questioned the sincerity of the government's decision to investigate the allegations detailed in a US State Department report.

"The government?s committee is merely an effort to buy time and hope the world will forget the bloodbath that civilians suffered at the end of the war," HRW Asia director Brad Adams said.

"Pretending that this is a serious attempt to investigate would betray the memory of the victims of war crimes and other abuses."

The State Department report, submitted to the US Congress on Thursday, cited "credible" claims that Sri Lankan troops or government-backed paramilitaries abducted and killed Tamil civilians during their final offensive against separatist Tamil Tiger rebels.

The report covered the period from January -- when fighting intensified -- until the end of May, when Sri Lankan troops defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to end a decades-old ethnic conflict.

It also highlighted claims that Tiger leaders reached a surrender agreement with government forces but were then executed.

Colombo announced Monday that it would probe the allegations.

"The government is once again creating a smokescreen inquiry to avoid accountability for abuses," said Adams.

"Only an independent international investigation will uncover the truth about this brutal war and ensure justice for the victims," he added.

 

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Hilary Clinton Accuses Sri Lankan Army Of Rape Crime

October 03, 2009
Condemning Sri Lanka for using rape as a medium of war during the fight against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ezham, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton juxtaposed Sri Lankan in the lines of Congo, Bosnia, Sudan, and Myanmar for intended violence against women in warfare.

Speaking on the last day of the US's turn of rotating presidency, Hilary said it is the duty of U.N. to ensure safety of women in such warfare and they contribute to half of the world's population. Adding to the allegations made by global community on Sri Lanka including genocide of 20, 000 Tamils and incarcerating 300, 000 in the internment camps, she said the rare practice of using sexual abuse as a war crime is common in Sudan, Bosnia and now Sri Lanka.

Even in the year 1996, women cadres of LTTE and Tamil people in the region underwent such miseries by the Sri Lanka army. As the possibilities of punishment are near impossible in this war period, it gives further encouragement to commit such crimes.

Refuting her statement, Sri Lankan Defense Ministry website claimed it is a sadistic, baseless accusation far from reality, and Sri Lankan forces never involved in such gross violence during the humanitarian campaign.