கனடா
யூன்
08, 2011
ஊடக அறிக்கை
அதிமுக அரசின் தீர்மானம்
தமிழ்மக்களுக்கு நம்பிக்கையை உண்டு பண்ணியுள்ளது
இலங்கையில் ஈழத்
தமிழர்களைப் படுகொலை செய்த சிங்கள
அரசை
அய்யன்னா
சபை
போர்க் குற்றவாளி என அறிவித்து
விசாரணை நடத்த
வேண்டும் என்றும், அதற்கு இந்திய அரசு
அய்யன்னா சபையை வற்புறுத்த வேண்டும் என்றும்
மேலும் தமிழர்களுக்கு சிங்கள அரசு துன்பம்
விளைவிப்பதைத் தடுக்கவும் தமிழர்களுக்குப் பாதுகாப்பான
நிலை ஏற்படுத்தவும் இலங்கை அரசு மீது பிற நாடுகளோடு
சேர்ந்து இந்திய அரசும்
அதன் மீது
கடுமையான
பொருளாதாரத் தடைகளை விதிக்க வேண்டும் என்றும்
வலியுறுத்தும்
தீர்மானம் தமிழக சட்ட மன்றத்தில் ஒருமனமாக
நிறைவேறியிருப்பதை மனநிறைவோடு வரவேற்கிறோம். இப்படியான
ஒரு தீர்மானத்துக்கு ஆண்டுக் கணக்கில் தமிழ் மக்கள்
காத்திருந்தார்கள்.
ஆளுநர்
உரையில் "இலங்கைப்
போரினால் இலட்சக் கணக்கான தமிழ் மக்கள் மாண்டு போன
நிலையில் மீதமுள்ள இலங்கைத் தமிழர்களும் தங்கள் சொந்த
நாட்டிலேயே அடிமைகள் போல் வாழும் நிலை ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது.
இலங்கைத் தமிழர்கள் அவர்கள் சொந்தப் பகுதிகளிலேயே
மறுவாழ்வு பெறுவதற்கான உடனடி நடவடிக்கைகளை இலங்கை அரசு
மேற்கொள்ள வலியுறுத்துமாறு மத்திய அரசை இந்த அரசு
கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறது" என்று சொல்லப்பட்டிருந்தது
தமிழ்மக்களுக்கு ஏமாற்றம் அளிப்பதாக அமைந்திருந்தது.
தேர்தல் முடிவுகள் வெளிவந்த அதே இரவு
ஜெயா
தொலைக்காட்சிக்குக் கொடுத்த நேர்காணலில்
"இனப்படுகொலைக்காக,
போர்க்குற்றத்துக்காக இலங்கை அதிபர் மகிந்த
இராசபக்சேயை அனைத்துலக நீதிமன்றத்தின் முன் நிறுத்த
இந்திய அரசு முயற்சி எடுக்க வேண்டும். இந்திய அரசு
தமிழர்களுக்கு ஒரு கவுரவமான வாழ்க்கையை, கண்ணியமான
வாழ்க்கையை அளிக்க இலங்கை அரசை வற்புறுத்த வேண்டும்.
இலங்கை பணிய மறுத்தால் இந்தியா மற்ற நாடுகளுடன்
சேர்ந்து சிறிலங்கா மீது பொருளாதாரத் தடையை விதிக்க
வேண்டும். இதைச் செய்தால் இலங்கை அரசு பணிந்துதான் ஆக
வேண்டும்"என்று
அதிமுக பொதுச் செயலாளர் செல்வி
ஜெயலலிதா கூறியிருந்தார்.
அவரது கூற்று தமிழீழ மக்களையும் புலம்பெயர்
தமிழர்களையும் மகிழ்ச்சியில் ஆழ்த்தி இருந்தது.
பின்னர் அந்த
வாக்குறுதிகள் ஆளுநர் உரையில் இடம்பெறாதது தமிழ்
மக்களுக்குப் பெரிய ஏமாற்றமாக இருந்தது. இந்தப்
பின்னணியில்
இலங்கையைப்
போர்க்குற்றவாளி என்று
அறிவிக்க வேண்டும் அதன்
மீது கடுமையான பொருளாதாரத் தடைகளை
விதிக்க வேண்டும் என்று வலியுறுத்தும்
தீர்மானம் தமிழக சட்ட மன்றத்தில் ஒருமனமாக நிறைவேற்றி
இருப்பதன் மூலம் முதல்வர் ஜெயலலிதா தனது
வாக்குறுதிகளை நிறைவேற்றி இருக்கிறார்.
விடுதலைப்
புலிகளுக்கு எதிரான படை நடவடிக்கை உண்மையில் படை
நடவடிக்கை அல்ல அது தமிழ்மக்களை விடுதலைப் புலிகளின்
பிடியில் சிக்கிக் கொண்ட தமிழ் மக்களை விடிவிக்க
மேற்கொண்ட
மனிதாபிமான நடவடிக்கை
(Humanitarian
Operation to free the Thamil people from the
clutches of the LTTE)
என சிறிலங்கா அரசு கூறியது. இது ஊரையும் உலகத்தையும்
ஏமாற்ற சிறிலங்கா அரசு மேற்கொண்ட
இராசதந்திரமாகும். உலக நாடுகள் இந்த கோபலஸ்
பரப்புரைக்குப் பலியாகின.
போர் முடிந்து
இரண்டு ஆண்டுகள் பின்னரான சிறிலங்கா அரசின்
நடவடிக்கைகள் முதலமைச்சர் சட்ட மன்றத்தில் சுட்டிக்
காட்டியது போல தமிழ்மக்கள் இரண்டாம் தரக்
குடிமக்கள் அவர்களுக்கு ஒத்துரிமை வழங்கப்பட மாட்டாது
அவர்களுக்கு மட்டுப்படுத்தப் பட்ட தன்னாட்சி உரிமை கூட
வழங்கப்பட மாட்டாது என்பதை உறுதி செய்கின்றன. வட -
கிழக்கு மாகாண அவைகளுக்கு காணி மற்றும் காவல்துறை
அதிகாரம் எந்தக் கட்டத்திலும் வழங்கப்பட மாட்டாது என
ஆட்சித்தலைவர் மகிந்த இராசபக்சே ஒருமுறைக்குப் பலமுறை
கூறியுள்ளார். சிறிலங்கா ஒரு சிங்கள - பவுத்த
நாடு. ஆட்சி அதிகாரம் சிங்கள - பவுத்த மக்களது
கையிலேயே இருக்க வேண்டும். என்னைத்
தெரிந்தெடுத்த பவுத்த - சிங்கள மக்களது விருப்பப்படியே
எனது ஆட்சி நடக்கும் என்கிறார். மறுபுறம்
தமிழர்களுக்குத் தாயகம் என்று ஒன்றும் கிடையாது,
அவர்கள் ஒரு தேசிய இனம் அல்ல, அவர்களுக்கு தன்னாட்சி
உரிமை கிடையாது, பெரும்பான்மை பவுத்த -
சிங்கள மக்களது தயவிலேயே அவர்கள் வாழ வேண்டும்
என்கிறார். இதுதான் மகிந்த இராசபக்சேயின் அரசியல்
சித்தாந்தம். இதனை மகாவம்ச (ஒரு பவுத்த புராணம்)
சிந்தனை என்று பரவலாகச் சொல்லப்படும்.
இந்தியாவின் போரையே சிறிலங்கா அரசு நடத்தி முடித்ததாக
மகிந்த இராபக்சே கூறிவருகிறார். போர்க்காலத்தில்
இந்தியா ஆயுதங்கள், போர்க்கப்பல்கள், இராடர்கள்,
பயிற்சி, இராணுவ நிபுணர்கள், புலனாய்வு இவற்றை
தாராளமாக இலங்கைக்கு வழங்கியது. இந்தப் பின்னணியில்
இந்திய காங்கிரஸ் அரசு சிறிலங்கா அரசைப் போர் மற்றும்
மானிடத்துக்கு எதிரான குற்றச்சாட்டுகளில் இருந்து
காப்பாற்ற கடும் முயற்சி எடுக்கும் என்பதில்
அய்யமில்லை. போர்க்குற்றச் சாட்டுக்கள் தன் மீதும்
பாயாமல் இருப்பதற்கும் இந்தியா சிறிலங்கா அரசைக்
காப்பாற்ற வேண்டிய கட்டாயத்தில் இருக்கிறது.
மகிந்த
இராபக்சேக்கு
அனைத்துலக நீதிமன்றத்தில் தண்டனை வாங்கிக் கொடுப்பது
ஒரு தார்மீக வெற்றி என்பது உண்மைதான். ஆனால் அதனால்
தமிழ்மக்களுக்கு அரசியல் தீர்வு கிடையாது. இந்தியா
இலங்கை - இந்திய உடனபடிக்கையின் கீழ் இயற்றப்பட்ட 13
ஆவது சட்த திருத்தத்தையே இலங்கை இனச் சிக்கலுக்குத்
தீர்வாக முன்வைக்கிறது. இந்த 13 ஆவது சட்ட திருத்தத்தை
அப்போதைய தமிழ் அரசியல் தலைவர்கள் முற்றாக நிராகரித்து
விட்டார்கள் என்பது இந்த இடத்தில் நினைவு கூரத்தக்கது.
பெரும்பான்மை
சிங்கள - பவுத்தர்களது நல்லெண்ணத்தில் தமிழ்மக்கள் வாழ
முடியாது. இலங்கை சுதந்திரம் பெற்றதற்குப்
(1948)
பின்னரும்
அதற்கு முன்னரும் தமிழ்மக்களுக்கு எதிராக இயற்றப்பட்ட
குடியுரிமை மற்றும் சிங்களம் மட்டும் போன்ற
சட்டங்கள் அதைத்தான் எடுத்துக் காட்டுகிறது.
திட்டமிட்ட சிங்களக் குடியேற்றத்தினால் கிழக்கு
மாகாணத்தில் தமிழர்கள் இன்று சிறுபான்மை
ஆக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார்கள். இப்போது போரில் வெற்றிபெற்ற
களிப்பில் சிங்கள - பவுத்த அரசு வடக்கிலும்
சிங்கள மயப்படுத்தல், இராணுவ மயப்படுத்தல், பவுத்தமயப்
படுத்தல் போன்றவற்றைப் படுவேகமாக அரங்கேற்றுகிறது.
தமிழர்களுக்கு சொந்தமான காணிகளில் பவுத்த விகாரைகள்
கட்டப்படுகின்றன. ஊர் தோறும் புத்தரது சிலைகள்
நாட்டப்படுகின்றன. தமிழர்களது சமயம், பண்பாடு, கலை
சிதைக்கப்படுகின்றன.
இலங்கைத் தமிழர்கள் தாங்கள் பெரும்பான்மையாக வாழும்
அவர்களது பூர்வீக தாயக மண்ணில்
கவுரவமாகவும் கண்ணியமாகவும் வாழ
வேண்டும் என்றால் அது இந்தியா அல்லது கனடா போன்ற
கூட்டாச்சி அரசியல் அமைப்பின் கீழேயே சாத்தியமாகும்.
குறைந்த பட்சம் சிறுபான்மை முஸ்லிம் மக்கள்
பெரும்பான்மையாக வாழும் கஷ்மீர் மாநித்துக்கு இந்திய
அரசியல் யாப்பில் வழங்கப்பட்ட அதிகாரங்கள் வழங்கப்பட
வேண்டும். தன்னாட்சி உரிமைக் கோட்பாட்டின் கீழ்
(The
right of self-determination)
கொசவோ, கிழக்குத் தீமோர், தென்
சூடான், எரித்தியா மக்கள் நேரடி வாக்கெடுப்பு மூலம்
சுதந்திரம் பெற்றது போல தமிழர்களுக்கும் அதே தன்னாட்சி
உரிமை வழஙக்கப்பட வேண்டும். அதற்குப் பெரும்பான்மை
சிங்கள - பவுத்தர்கள் இணங்காவிட்டால் ஏழு நூற்றாண்டு
காலம் தமிழ் மன்னர்கள் ஆண்ட இராச்சியத்தை மீள
உருவாக்க வேண்டும். இதுவே இனச்சிக்கலுக்கு நிரந்தர
தீர்வாகும் எனச் சுட்டிக் காட்ட விரும்புகிறோம்.
அதிமுக அரசு
தமிழக சட்டசபையில் கொண்டு வந்து நிறைவேற்றிய தீர்மானம்
தமிழ்மக்களுக்கு ஒரு புதிய நம்பிக்கையை
உண்டுபண்ணியுள்ளது.
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இலங்கை மீது மத்திய அரசு பொருளாதாரத்
தடை விதிக்க வலியுறுத்தி தமிழக சட்டப்பேரவையில்
முதல்வர் ஜெயலலிதா தீர்மானம் நிறைவேற்றியிருப்பது
நம்பிக்கை அளிப்பதாக உள்ளது என மதிமுக பொதுச் செயலாளர்
வைகோ கூறியுள்ளார்.
இதுகுறித்து அவர் வெளியிட்டுள்ள அறிக்கை:
இலங்கையில் ஈழத் தமிழர்களைப் படுகொலை செய்த சிங்கள
அரசு மீது, ஐ.நா. சபை போர்க் குற்றவாளி என்று
அறிவித்து, விசாரணை நடத்த வேண்டும் என்றும், அதற்கு
இந்திய அரசு ஐ.நா. சபையை வற்புறுத்த வேண்டும் என்றும்,
மேலும் தமிழர்களுக்கு சிங்கள அரசு துன்பம்
விளைவிப்பதைத் தடுக்கவும் தமிழர்களுக்குப் பாதுகாப்பான
நிலை ஏற்படுத்தவும் இலங்கை அரசு மீது பிற நாடுகளோடு
சேர்ந்து இந்திய அரசும் பொருளாதாரத் தடை கொண்டு வர
வேண்டும் என்றும், தமிழ்நாடு சட்டமன்றத்தில் தமிழக
முதல்வர் கொண்டு வந்த தீர்மானம் மிகவும் வரவேற்கத்
தக்கதாகும்.
சட்டமன்றத்தில் ஒருமனதாக இத்தீர்மானம்
நிறைவேற்றப்பட்டிருப்பது, தமிழகத்திலும் உலகெங்கும்
வாழும் தமிழர்களுக்கும் நம்பிக்கை ஊட்டுகிறது.
UN's war crimes
report support the charge of genocide on Sri
Lanka,
Pointing out the instances where the
criminal allegations on Sri Lanka made in
the UN's war crimes report support the
charge of genocide on Sri Lanka, Professor
Francis Boyle, expert in International Law
and Professor at the University of Illinois
College of Law, told TamilNet, "[f]or
obvious political reasons, no one wants to
use the word “genocide." And that is
because it then raises the question why did
no one stop the genocide as required by
article I of the Genocide Convention. The
same phenomenon happened in Bosnia. No one
would use the word “genocide” until
afterwards, and it was too late to do anyone
any good—they were all dead."
Boyle points to the accusation of
"persecution" against Government of Sri
Lanka (GoSL), in para 251, pg. 69: "The
credible allegations supporting a finding of
the crime against humanity of persecution
insofar as the other acts listed here appear
to have been committed on racial or
political grounds against the Tamil
population of the Vanni... "
This would support a genocide charge. And
yet they (the members of UN panel) fail to
get into genocide, Boyle says.
"Concerning their estimate that about 40,000
Tamils were exterminated by the GOSL in
Vanni, that is about 5 times the 7000+
Bosnians exterminated at Srebrenica in
1995," and Prof Boyle provided the following
analysis:
In its final Judgment on the merits in
the Bosnia case that was issued in 2007,
the World Court definitively agreed with
me once and for all time that in order
to constitute genocide, a state must
only intend to destroy a “substantial
part” of the group “as such”:
198. In terms of that question of law,
the Court refers to three matters
relevant to the determination of
“part” of the “group” for the
purposes of Article II. In the first
place, the intent must be to destroy at
least a substantial part of the
particular group. That is demanded by
the very nature of the crime of
genocide: since the object and purpose
of the Convention as a whole is to
prevent the intentional destruction of
groups, the part targeted must be
significant enough to have an impact on
the group as a whole. That requirement
of substantiality is supported by
consistent rulings of the ICTY and the
International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda (ICTR) and by the Commentary of
the ILC to its Articles in the draft
Code of Crimes against the Peace and
Security of mankind (e.g. Krstić,
IT-98-33-A, Appeals Chamber Judgment, 19
April 2004, paras. 8-11 and the cases of
Kayishema, Byilishema, and Semanza there
referred to; and Yearbook of the
International Law Commission, 1996, Vol.
II, Part Two, p. 45, para. 8 of the
Commentary to Article 17).[1]
Furthermore, in paragraphs 293 and 294
of its 26 February 2007 Bosnian
Judgment, the World Court found that you
did not need six million exterminated
people in order to constitute genocide.
Rather, even the seven thousand murdered
Bosnian Muslim men and boys at
Srebrenica were enough to constitute
genocide. These victims constituted
about one-fifth of the Srebrenica
community.
In this regard, I still serve as
Attorney of Record for the Mothers of
Srebrenica and Podrinja who constitute
one of the primary groups of women
survivors of that genocidal massacre
still living in Bosnia today. I have
personally toured the Killing Fields of
Srebrenica with my Bosnian clients. I
know genocide when I see it!
"The Report says nothing about genocide or
the Genocide Convention. But I have already
set forth the appropriate test from the
ICJ’s judgment in the Bosnian case and
have discussed this at great length in my
book The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka. So I
am not going to repeat any of that analysis
here," Prof Boyle said.
Commenting on the "para 229, p. 63 …the
State inexplicably excluded the ICRC, with
its highly skilled family tracing
services…," Professor Boyle explained,
"the reason the ICRC was excluded and
expelled was for the GOSL to better engage
in enforced disappearances. Once registered
with the ICRC, it becomes much harder to
disappear someone."
For setting up these No Fire Zones , luring
civilians in there, and then pouring
artillery fire in there were clearly acts of
treachery and thus war crimes, Prof Boyle
said, "all those generals (detailed in pp
16-17) should be listed as presumptive war
criminals."
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=33885
February 26,
2011
Lanka faces
multi-pronged attack on human rights
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Top
officials secretly fly to New York for meeting with UN chief ahead of report
by controversial panel
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World
attention on UNHRC sessions while Tiger lobby tries to take Kohona to
International Criminal Court
By Our
Political Editor
Read more
......http://www.sundaytimes.lk/110227/Columns/political.html
COMMENT
Those who
sow the the wind will reap the whirlwind, Sri Lankan rulers who sowed
the wind are going to reap the whirlwind (Hosea 8:7).
Sri Lanka
under Mahinda Rajapakse is one of the worst violator of fundamental
human rights and humanitarian law governing conduct of war.
Not only
LTTE leaders were killed when they surrendered to the army with white flags in
the battle field, scores of others were killed after they surrendered to the
army.
The wives
of Elilan, Ilanthirayan have given evidence before the LLRC claiming they saw
their husbands bordering an army bus along with Rev. Fr.Francis Joseph, but
have never heard of them since.
A culture
of impunity: despite pervasive human rights violations continue and very few
are ever held accountable.
On June 12,
2009 The Asian Tribune, a mouth piece of Mahinda Rajapakses
government, reported that "LTTE
Senior V.Balakumar and seven other hardcore Tigers are in the police net,
Asian Tribune learns. They are Yogaratnam Yogi, former LTTE spokesman,
Baby Subramaniam, LTTE stalwart of long years, Lawrence Thilakar, a former
head of the LTTEs International Secretariat, Ilamaparithi, Jaffna political
leader, Karikalan of the Eastern Province and three others whose names are not
immediately available. (http://wannioperation.com/news/2009/06/ltte-seniors-balakumaran-8-other-hardcore-in-police-custody/)
One of the prominent witnesses who gave evidence
before the LLRC was Ananthi Sasitharan
(40) wife of Elilan, former Trincomalee political head of the
LTTE. In her testimony before the LLRC
said that her husband, Mr. Elilan, and other senior LTTE officials Yogaratnam
Yogi and Lawrance Thilakar, both of whom took part in negotiations earlier,
and LTTE Political Wing Deputy Chief Thangkan, former Jaffna Political Head
Ilamparithi, Head of Administrative Unit Poovannan, Piriyan, Theepan, Sports
Wing Chief Raja and his 3 children, Kuddi and Holster Babu were among those
surrendered in front of her eyes to the Sri Lankan forces under the
coordination of a Catholic Priest at Vadduvaakal in Mullaiththeevu on 18 May,
2009. In addition, the list of names of missing are Poet Rathnathurai, V.
Balakumar, LTTE strategist, Karikalan, Head of the Political department,
Batticaloa and Ilankumaran (Baby Subramaniam) Head of the Educational
Department.
Ananthi Sasitharan's evidence before the LLRC was corroborated
Mrs.Punitharuban Vanitha the wife of Ilantherian who said her husband was
taken away by the army on 17 May 2009, just before the Tigers suffered their
final defeat. She was told, she said, that her husband would be returned after
treatment for minor injuries. Mrs. Vanitha told the LLRC that she has not
seen her husband since then. Bobitha Prabhaharan, the wife of Prabha, also
said her husband was detained in May last year, and has heard nothing from him
since.
Bearing witness in front of Mahinda
Rajapaksa's LLRC in Maanthai West in Mannaar on Sunday, Mrs R. Mironio, the
wife of LTTE's former Mannaar commander Antony Rayappu alias Yaan, said she
has not heared from her husband or not told of the whereabouts of him after he
surrendered in front of her in SLA controlled territory in Mullaiththeevu on
18 May 2009. The surrender was facilitated by facilitated by Catholic Priest
Rev. Fr. Francis Joseph, she said. The priest was also taken with her husband,
but none have heard about them, she said.
On January 2nd 2006 the security forces. in Trincomalee shot and killed five
Tamil students in cold blood by the beach. The killing was preceded by
rounds of assault after the youths were forced to kneel down. again.
Firearms were taken out and brandished. The youths were told that they were
going to be killed as a warning to the tigers in Trincomalee. The innocent
youths began wailing and pleading. Their pathetic cries were heard far and
wide.
By all account the noose is tightening around the necks Mahinda Rajapakse and
Co.
October 21, 2010
Hon. Marzuki Darusman
Chairman of UN Panel of Experts
UN Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
USA
Hon. Ms. Sooka Yasmin
Member of UN Panel of Experts
UN Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
USA
Hon. Steven R. Ratner
Member of UN Panel of Experts
UN Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
USA Email:
panelofexpertsregistry@un.org
There
is Irresistible Evidence Senior LTTE Cadres Have Been Summarily
Executed by the Army
Dear Hon. Panellists,
On July 10, 2010 a senior cabinet Minister
unwittingly provided the first hint that top leaders of the LTTE
V.Balakumaran and Yogaratnam Yogi have been killed after they surrendered to the
army on May 18, 2010. The Minister involved is D.E.W. Gunasekera who is
in charge of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms. On a visit to the North in July
he met groups of war widows that included wives of Balakumaran and Yogaratnam
Yogi. (http://www.jdslanka.org/2010/07/sri-lankan-minister-confirms-killing-of.html)
Ironically
Minister Gunasekera is the General Secretary of the Ceylon Communist
Party, a coalition partner of the ruling UPFA. Among his former
comrades are Alaveddy V. Ponnampalam, Udupiddy Pon Kandiah, Urumpirai
Vaithilingam and Jaffna Karthigesu. If these comrades were alive today, they
would have suffered heart attack seeing him among some of the worst
Sinhala supremacists who have out performed the Bandaranaikas, Jeyawardena and
Premadasa combined! This writer also knows Comrade Gunasekara personally.
Balakumaran and Yogi
Yogaratnam
Yogi was a member of the LTTE negotiating team which held talks with the
then President Ranasinghe Premadasas government and Balakumaran was formerly
the leader of the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS) and joined
the LTTE in the early 1990s and emerged as one of its ideologues.
Earlier there
were rumours floating that many senior LTTE surrendees have been summarily
executed or put to death after torturing them when they refused to play ball by
the government. Although, Minister Gunasekera stung by a barrage
of criticism tried to wriggle out of the quack mire by stating
Balakumaran and Yogi must have died during the last phase of the war there were
no takers. Sri Lanka's Child Development and
Women's Affairs Ministry has said that some 89,000 women in North (49,000)
and East (40,000) have become widows due to the three-decade long armed
conflict. This Ministry has included the wives of Balakumaran and
Yogi among the of 89,000 war widows!
Revelation by Lankafast.com
On May 31,
2009, Lankafirst.com website quoting Government Information Department
sources, reported that some top Tiger leaders who were in military custody were
going through series of serious investigation by the security forces. The web
site reported that Former eastern province political wing leader and
subsequently in charge of the economic division Karikalan, former spokesman of
the LTTE Yogaratnam Yogi , former EROS MP turned advisor to the LTTE V.
Balakumaran, a former spokesman of the LTTE Lawrence Tilagar, former Deputy
political section leader Thangan , former head of the political section for
Jaffna district Ilamparithi, former Trincomalee political wing leader Elilan,
former head of the LTTE sports division Papa , former head of the administrative
division of the LTTE Puvannan and deputy international head Gnanam are in
custody, it said.
Asian Tribune
On June 12,
2009 The Asian Tribune, a mouth piece of Mahinda Rajapakses
government, reported that "LTTE Senior V.Balakumar
and seven other hardcore Tigers are in the police net, Asian Tribune
learns. They are Yogaratnam Yogi, former LTTE spokesman, Baby Subramaniam, LTTE
stalwart of long years, Lawrence Thilakar, a former head of the LTTEs
International Secretariat, Ilamaparithi, Jaffna political leader, Karikalan of
the Eastern Province and three others whose names are not immediately available.
(http://wannioperation.com/news/2009/06/ltte-seniors-balakumaran-8-other-hardcore-in-police-custody/)
Nabbed hours before the Elam War ended, they are
detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Informed sources said that
Balakumaran and his colleagues were initially kept at an army camp in
Anuradhapura. They were flown to Colombo and presented before a Police
Magistrate at his residence who has ordered their detention at Anuradhapura
itself. Accordingly, they were flown back to the army camp." (Colombo, 12 June,
(Asiantribune.com)
Asked by
The Island today
whether among the detained terrorists were Yogaratnam Yogi, one-time LTTE
negotiator and Balakumaran of the EROS, who threw his weight behind Velupillai
Prabhakaran, Rehabilitation Commissioner Brig. Ranasinghe said that he did not
have them.
Media reports confirm arrests LTTE seniors
On June 11, 2009 a media report posted in
state-owned Sinhala daily
The Dinamina said
that Balakumaran was arrested while hiding in a refugee camp in Vavuniya.
(http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2010/7/58890_space.html)
In December,
2009 a report by the University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) also said
Balakumaran and his son teenaged Sooriyatheepan surrendered to the 53 army
Division near Irattaivaykkal along the Nanthikadal lagoon on May 16.
The UTHR-J
report mentioned the following top leaders as having surrendered: Karikalan
(former eastern province political wing leader and subsequently in charge of the
economic division), Yogaratnam Yogi (former spokesman of the LTTE), Lawrence
Thilagar (a former spokesman of the LTTE, a one time head of LTTE office in
Paris and later in charge of the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation), Thangan
(former Deputy political section leader), Ilamparithi (former head of the
political section for Jaffna district), Elilan (former Trincomalee political
wing leader), Papa (former head of the LTTE sports division), Puvannan (former
head of the administrative division of the LTTE), Gnanam (deputy international
head) and Tamilini head of the Womens political wing. (http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2010/7/58890_space.html)
BBC reports surrendees tortured and beaten
On July 15,
2010 Swaminathan Natarajan BBC (Tamil Oosai) correspondent in a report
said "In letters and phone calls to the BBC, some ex-militants claimed that they
had been "tortured and beaten" in the detention centres.Military officers often
call us dogs - even if we don't shave for a day we are beaten up badly," the BBC
report said quoting one of the detainees letters as saying. "Some are hanged
upside down," she wrote. "Some are made to lie down in the floor and beaten with
belts and sticks. They don't take the injured to hospital. "Others accuse the
authorities of providing no information on the whereabouts of their loved ones
and of orchestrating "disappearances" from the detention centres. They say that
detainees taken away for questioning have not returned and no-one knows what has
happened to them.
One letter
written by a woman from the eastern town of Trincomalee said some young
detainees had been "beaten black and blue". "Some are hanged upside down. Some
are made to lie down in the floor and beaten with belts and sticks. They don't
take the injured to hospital," the woman told the BBC.
Questioned by
the BBC (Tamil Oosai) correspondent Minister Gunasekara strenuously denied the
claims. He said "I have visited Jaffna, Kilinochchi and Vavuniya where I
met many people - including wives and relatives of the detainees, no one
made any complaints to me." With a tinge of sarcasm he suggested that ""Instead
of writing letters to the BBC in London, ask them to write to me and I will
look into it." (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south+asia-10647108)
Lanka Guardian published photographs of Balakumar and
son
On August 06,
the Lanka Guardian published a photograph taken in the army controlled
area detention centre showing V. Balakumaran and his son seated on a bunk under
a tree. The background of the photograph shows army soldiers moving around
the area. According to Lanka Guardian V. Balakumaran came to surrender to
the Army with white flags together with other senior leaders of the
LTTE. The
photograph was taken in the army-controlled area. (http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2010/8/59145_space.
html)

At the same
time international media also reported that former Tamil Tiger rebels detained
by the Sri Lankan army have been tortured and ill-treated in government camps
with no basic facilities.
ICJ says largest mass detention in the world
On September 17, 2010 the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said Sri
Lanka has failed to adhere to international law in detaining suspected LTTE
cadres. The watchdog said the detention of nearly 8,000 rebel suspects for
months without a trial is perhaps the largest mass detention in the world. It
urged Sri Lankas donors and the UN to urge Colombo to improve its human rights
situation. It also questioned the reasons for maintaining emergency regulations
and the Preventing of Terrorism Act (PTA). The ICJ claimed there is a
legal vacuum over the detention of former LTTE. ( surrendees.
http://adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=9959)
Testimony before LLRC by war victims
From September 18, Sri Lankas Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC)
commenced sittings in the North and recorded statements from war affected
persons in Kilinochchi town and later in Kandaavalai and in Mullaiththeevu.
Despite claiming that the LLRC is being held in public, the government blocked
BBC coverage of the hearings. This is because of government perceived phobia
that journalists, both foreign and domestic are biased against it.
Many Tamils think that LLRC as another futile exercise in the
art of duplicity. They think that this Commission is a
ruse created merely to keep the global powers at bay and ward off international
criticism. .Previous Commission reports were allowed to die a natural
death. The LLRC is another attempt by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to
preempt the three men UN panel appointed by Ban Kid-moon. The panel was assigned
to look into the modalities, applicable international standards and comparative
experience with regard to accountability processes, taking into account the
nature and scope of any alleged violations in Sri Lanka during the last stages
of war with the LTTE.
But, Sri Lanka claimed the UN panel is an evil interference in the domestic
affairs of Sri Lanka and the brainchild of Ban Ki-Moon. It unleashed malicious
attacks as part of an insidious propaganda war against the UN panel. Sri Lankan
government Spokesman and Media and Information Minister Keheliya Rambukwella has
accused the UN of having a hidden agenda. He released a statement which said:
The United Nations appointing of a Panel of Experts to advise the Secretary
General on accountability of activities that took place during the last
phase of the war as an unwarranted and unnecessary interference with a
sovereign nation.
Hundreds of people lined up to give their testimonies in
front of LLRC, but most of them are not allowed to testify.
Only a handful of witnesses were allowed
to give evidence before the LLRC and others were driven away. Women with
children had come with the hope of getting information about their husbands,
sons and daughters who had disappeared without trace after surrendering
themselves during the last phase of the war in Vanni.
The LLRC commenced recording the statements of war affected people at its first
sitting was at Kilinochchi town and later in Kandaavvalai and at Mullaiththeevu.
Before leaving to Vavuniya on Monday, the LLRC officials took the opportunity to
witness Mullivaaikkal and Puthumaaththalan where armed forces shelled,
bombarded and killed tens of thousands of people taking shelter in bunkers,
temporary tents and lines for food, using the banned cluster and phosphorous
bombs. They also visited Mullaiththeevu hospital and other places which are
mostly seen as ghost sites.
Agricultural officer Nadarajah Sundaramoorthy told the
Commission that more than 40 to 45 pregnant mothers and babies died when they
were hit by shells and aerial strikes as they waited in a queue to collect
nutritional food. He said the incident occurred in Puthumathalan, where the LTTE
and civilians were cornered in the final days of the conflict. He said his
daughter was injured when a bullet pierced her throat.
Sundaramoorthy said that the Sri Lankan army used cluster
and phosphorous bombs. As a result of using these banned bombs, civilians
suffered heavy causalities. Daily, 400 to 600 persons were dying. Another 1,000
people were injured on a daily basis. He blamed the government saying that the
government declared a buffer zone, and asked the civilians to stay in the buffer
zone. However, after the announcement and after civilians sought shelter in this
narrow strip of land, the government launched massive aerial and shelling
attacks on them resulting in heavy casualties to the civilians. If the civilians
were not asked to stay in the declared safety zone area, not as many civilian
casualties would have occurred.
Mrs. Ananthi Sasitharan testifies before LLRC
One of the prominent witnesses who gave evidence before the LLRC
was Ananthi Sasitharan (40) wife of Elilan, former
Trincomalee political head of the LTTE. In her testimony
before the LLRC said that her husband, Mr. Elilan, and other senior LTTE
officials Yogaratnam Yogi and Lawrance Thilakar, both of whom took part in
negotiations earlier, and LTTE Political Wing Deputy Chief Thangkan, former
Jaffna Political Head Ilamparithi, Head of Administrative Unit Poovannan,
Piriyan, Theepan, Sports Wing Chief Raja and his 3 children, Kuddi and Holster
Babu were among those surrendered in front of her eyes to the Sri Lankan forces
under the coordination of a Catholic Priest at Vadduvaakal in Mullaiththeevu on
18 May, 2009. In addition, the list of names of missing are Poet Rathnathurai,
V. Balakumar, LTTE strategist, Karikalan, Head of the Political department,
Batticaloa and Ilankumaran (Baby Subramaniam) Head of the Educational
Department.
Mrs. Ananthi Sasitharan further said President Rajapaksa
should know the whereabouts of her husband and fellow LTTE officials who
surrendered. If they have not been murdered, then the government must produce
them or disclose their whereabouts. It should be mentioned the ICRC, media,
INGOs, Members of Parliament, and UN Agencies have been denied access to
internment camps holding LTTE cadres.
Mrs.Ananthi Sasitharan interview to BBC
On September 18 (Saturday) Mrs. Ananthi Sasitharan was interviewed by BBC (Tamil
Oosai) following her testimony before the LLRC. She told BBC (Tamil Oosai)
that she and her three daughters witnessed her husband and hundreds of other
LTTE members surrendering to the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers on 18th May 2009,
after the war has come to an end. "I have been trying to trace my husband and
have not been successful to locate his whereabouts. I have no doubt that Sri
Lanka's president knows where my husband and others who surrendered are being
held," she told the BBC.
"If my husband has disappeared during the war, then there will be reason to
think that he may have been killed during the heat of the battle, but having
seen him surrender after the fighting has stopped, there is absolutely no reason
for me to believe that he is dead," Ananthi told the BBC.
When asked if she did not fear for her life [from Sri Lanka Government] after
talking candidly before Sri Lanka's commission, Ananthi said, she has never been
afraid of death, and that her resolve to live has long been disappeared. She
added that she will continue to her efforts to find her husband.
"All countries have betrayed us, she told BBC (Tamil Oosai) after
complaining to the LLRC that SL President should know the whereabouts of her
husband and fellow LTTE officials surrendered through a Catholic Priest in
Mullaiththeevu on 18 May 2009.
When asked whether she was concerned about repercussions for stating her views
publicly from Vanni, the mother of three responded: I am not afraid. I am
prepared to face anything since we dont now live with the zest for life.
She further said that, while her three daughters were psychologically
traumatised from seeing death and destruction, she is managing to bring them up
as best as she can from the income from her employment.
On 19th September, 2010 TamilNet published a verbatim English translation of
Aananthi Sasitharan's interview to BBC (Tamil Osai) under the heading
"Elusive international justice snatches away desire to live." (http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=32650)
I had complained by a letter to the Vavuniya, Colombo
International Red Cross Society and in person. I had complained to Vavuniya
Human Rights Commission regarding my husband, but I did not receive any reply.
Several months had lapsed, but my husband's whereabouts is still not known.
A remarkable feature of her interview is her spirit of defiance in the face of
adversity and despair. She did not mince her words and always spoke in terms of
collective self, as we and not "I." This Eezham Tamil psyche that is seriously
concerned more about the sufferings of the nation than individual miseries.
Rightfully she was called "Veeraththai" by a Tamil activist!
Mrs. Ananthi Sasitharan appealed to the media to bring to
light her plea to the attention of world leaders and media outlets to exert
pressure upon the Sri Lankan government to release her husband. Despite the
pleas from people like Mrs. Ananthi, international media and world diplomats
have taken little attention to their pleas.
Mrs. Ananthi Sasitharan said he and her
three daughters witnessed her husband and hundreds of other LTTE members
surrendering to the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers on May 18, 2009, after the war
came to an end.
Mrs. Ananthi Sasitharan, in a letter addressed to Ms.
Sooka Yasmin (Executive Director) of Foundation for Human Rights and a Member
of UN Experts Panel, on September 15, 2010, wrote: My husband Sinnathurai
Sasitharan on 18.05.2009 at Vanni Mullaiththeevu District in Vadduvagal Division
on the Head of Church Father Francis Xavier with many hundred Tigers surrendered
to Mullaiththeevu Sri Lankan Army.
When the LLRC went to Batticaloa many Tamil civilians testified before the panel
about missing relatives. Among them were wives of LTTE military spokesman Rasiah
Ilantherian and Prabha head of the Tiger intelligence wing in Batticaloa.
Both have not been seen since being detained by the army.
Mrs.Punitharuban Vanitha the wife of Ilantherian
testimony
Mrs.Punitharuban Vanitha the wife of Ilantherian said her husband was
taken away by the army on 17 May 2009, just before the Tigers suffered their
final defeat. She was told, she said, that her husband would be returned after
treatment for minor injuries. Mrs. Vanitha told the LLRC that she has not
seen her husband since then. Bobitha Prabhaharan, the wife of Prabha, also said
her husband was detained in May last year, and has heard nothing from him
since.
Sri Lankas history of the past three decades has been violent and conflict
ridden. Over 150,000 have died during the last 30 years. Out of this 40,000 died
during the last phase of the war by aerial bombardment and multi-barrel
shelling. Whatever the Sri Lankan government may say, three decades of violent
conflict has resulted in a deeply divided and polarized society. Sri Lanka
might be one country geographically but remain polarized ethno socially. The
LLRC is an exercise in futility. If at all it is going to make matters worse.
Overwhelming evidence
There is overwhelming eye witness evidence
that not only the Sri Lankan army committed war crimes, crimes against
humanity and genocide before the war, but after the war as well. There is no
denying the fact that senior cadres of the LTTE were seen inside the camps
and their subsequent transfer to army detention centres. There is even
photographic evidence of Balakumar and his son sitting stoically under the tree
in one such detention centre.
If the Sri Lankan government says the senior cadres who surrendered in front of
their wives are now not in their custody the conclusion is irresistible. They
have been done to death by thugs in uniform on the orders of the defence
Ministry. There is no other plausible reason for their forced disappearance at
the hands of blood thirsty barbarians in army uniform.
Unfortunately, human rights activists or organizations are not
forcefully speaking about the fate of these prisoners of war. HRW, AI and ICG
are keeping deadly silence. The TGTE, GTF. BTF and TAG should take meaningful
action to bring President Mahinda Rajapakse, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya,
former Army Chief Fonseka and others before the International Criminal Justice
and tried for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
The urgent need now is for the TGTE, GTF, BTF and TAG to take concrete
action in the face of overwhelming evidence to bring President Mahinda
Rajapakse, Defense Secretary Gotabhaya, former Army Chief Fonseka and others
before the International Criminal Justice and tried for war crimes, crimes
against humanity and genocide.
Although the UN Panel appointed by
the Secretary - General and is not an "investigative or fact- finding body", we
still hope the Panelists will name all state players responsible for the
senseless slaughter of innocent men, women and children not only DURING
the last phase of the war, but AFTER the war ended when LTTE cadres
surrendered to the Sri Lankan armed forces. If former
president of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic could be put on trial for war crimes why
not president Mahinda Rajapakse, Commander- in - Chief of the Sri Lankan armed
forces?
Yours
sincerely
Veluppillai Thangavelu
President
TCWA
56 Littles Road
Toronto
Ontario. M1B 5C5
Canada
Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka
VEERA
top Sri Lankan minister wittingly or otherwise has confirmed that some of
the top Tamil Tiger leaders, including V. Balakumaran and Yogaratnam Yogi,
who had surrendered to the government troops during the final days of the
war in May 2009, have been killed while in protected military custody.
Minister of Rehabilitation and Prisons Reforms, Dew Gunasekera who
undertook a visit to the north and met groups of war widows last week has
told a Colombo-based newspaper on record that among the widows whom he
had met in Jaffna were wives of Balakumaran and Yogaratnam Yogi.
The Ministers statement indirectly confirms that some of the top leaders
of the Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed while in military custody by
the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, which is already facing
international war crime charges for allegedly executing top unarmed Tiger
leaders when surrendering with white flags.
It is not immediately known whether Balakumaran and Yogi were killed in an
execution-style murder or tortured to death.
Minister Gunasekera has also acknowledged that there had not been a
detailed study on LTTE widows, though various NGOs and government
officials from time to time had given different figures since the
conclusion of the war in May last year.
He has said that his ministry had called for applications from people of
the Northern Province before meeting them in three separate groups in
Jaffna (July 10), Kilinochchi (11) and Vavuniya (12).
Minister Gunasekara has said that of the 8,000 who had responded to his
ministrys call, about 98 per cent were young women.
Yogaratnam Yogi was a member of the LTTE negotiating team which had series
of talks with the then President Ranasinghe Premadasas government.
Balakumaran was formerly the leader of the Eelam Revolutionary
Organisation of Students (EROS) and joined the LTTE in the early 1990s
before coming one of its ideologues.
On May 31, 2009, Lankafirst.com website quoting Government Information
Department sources, reported that some top Tiger leaders who were in the
military hand, were going through series of serious investigation by the
security forces.
Former eastern province political wing leader and subsequently in charge
of the economic division Karikalan, former spokesman of the LTTE
Yogaratnam Yogi , former EROS MP turned advisor to the LTTE V. Balakumar ,
a former spokesman of the LTTE Lawrence Tilagar, former Deputy political
section leader Thangan , former head of the political section for Jaffna
district Ilamparithi , former Trincomalee political wing leader Elilan,
former head of the LTTE sports division Papa , former head of the
administrative division of the LTTE Puvannan and deputy international head
Gnanam are in custody, it said.
A report by the University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) also said
December last year that Balakumar and his son teenaged Sooriyatheepan
surrendered to the 53 army Division near Irattaivaykkal, along the
Nanthikadal lagoon on May 16.
Like Balakumar, many top LTTE leaders reportedly surrendered in the last
three days of the war, between May 16 and 19 (2009).
The UTHR-J report mentioned the following top leaders as having
surrendered: Karikalan (former eastern province political wing leader and
subsequently in charge of the economic disivion), Yogaratnam Yogi (former
spokesman of the LTTE), Lawrence Tilagar (a former spokesman of the LTTE,
a one time head of LTTE office in Paris and later in charge of the Tamil
Rehabilitation Organisation), Thangan (former Deputy political section
leader), Ilamparithi (former head of the political section for Jaffna
district), Elilan (former Trincomalee political wing leader), Papa (former
head of the LTTE sports division), Puvannan (former head of the
administrative division of the LTTE), Gnanam (deputy international head)
and Tamilini head of the Womens political wing.
According to the government reports, over 11,000 LTTE detainees are kept
in special camps. None of the international rights groups, even the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been granted access
to many of these camps to date.
Internation media reports said last week that former Tamil Tiger rebels
detained in Sri Lanka say they have been tortured and ill-treated in
government camps with no basic facilities.
In letters and phone calls to the BBC, the ex-militants have said that
they had been "tortured and beaten" in the detention centres.
"Military officers often call us dogs - even if we don't shave for a day
we are beaten up badly," the BBC report said quoting one of the detainees
letters as saying.
One letter written by a woman from the eastern town of Trincomalee said
some young detainees had been "beaten black and blue".
"Some are hanged upside down. Some are made to lie down in the floor and
beaten with belts and sticks. They don't take the injured to hospital,"
the woman has told the BBC.
Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka
UNITED NATIONS NATIONS
SECRETARY-GENERALS PANEL OF EXPERTS ON SRI LANKA
18 October 2010
On 22 June 2010, the UN Secretary-General established a Panel of Experts
to advise him on the issue of accountability with regard to alleged
violations of international human rights and humanitarian law during the
final stages of the conflict in Sri Lanka. The members of the Panel are
Marzuki Darusman, Steven Ratner and Yasmin Sooka. The Panel officially
began its work on 16 September 2010.
The Panel will look into the modalities, applicable international
standards and comparative experience with regard to accountability
processes, taking into consideration the nature and scope of any alleged
violations in Sri Lanka. The Panel advises the Secretary-General and is
not an investigative or fact-finding body.
Anyone wishing to make submissions in respect of the above may do so as
follows:
1. Organizations and individuals may make one written submission not
exceeding ten pages, and must include the contact details for the author(s)
of the submission.
2. The Panel will receive submissions until 15 December 2010.
3. Submissions may be sent to: panelofexpertsregistry@un.org.
4. Submissions made to the Panel of Experts will be treated as
confidential.
Further information may be solicited from the Panels Secretariat at the
following address:
panelofexpertsregistry@un.org.
The
panel is chaired by Marzuki Darusman, a former Attorney General of
Indonesia. Ms. Yasmin Sooka, a member of the South Africa
Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1995-1998 and Steven Ratner of
US, a Professor of International Law at Univeristy of
Michigan are the other two members of the panel.
Colombo, 12 June, (Asiantribune.com): LTTE
Senior V.Balakumar Balakumaran and seven other hardcore Tigers
are in the police net, Asian Tribune learns. They are Yogaratnam
Yogi, former LTTE spokesman, Baby Subramaniam, LTTE stalwart of
long years, Lawrence Thilakar, a former head of the LTTEs
International Secretariat, Ilamaparithi, Jaffna political
leader, Karikalan of the Eastern Province and three others whose
names are not immediately available.
Nabbed hours before the Elam War ended,
they are detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
Informed sources said that Balakumaran and
his colleagues were initially kept at an army camp in
Anuradhapura. They were flown to Colombo and presented before a
Police Magistrate at his residence who has ordered their
detention at Anuradhapura itself. Accordingly, they were flown
back to the army camp. The detention can be up to 180 days
pending investigation and trial.
The sources said that the group would soon
be relocated to Colombo for security reasons. It is possible
that they could be held Panagoda Army Camp.
Amongst this group, Balakumaran has a
colorful past. A former manager of Puloly Rural Bank, who robbed
the bank in broad day light in the seventies, graduated to LTTE
through EROS. His wife, Inthiranee, a midwife by training, is
now attending on her injured daughter at Polonaruwa hospital.
The girl was hit by shrapnel during fighting in Vanni
When Inthiranee was arrested, she had in
her possession two kilograms of gold jewellery and more than Sri
Lanka Rupees eight lakh in cash.
Inthiranee married Balakumaran after she
lost her first husband. They have three children - two boys and
a girl. While the eldest son is studying in Australia with the
help of LTTE supreme Prabhakaran, the second son is living with
his mothers relatives at Nallur, Jaffna.
Puloly Multipurpose Cooperative Society (MPCS)
was a thriving venture when Balakumaran joined it as the manager
of the societys bank after graduation in 1973. Soon he became
the president of the Puloly MPCS workers Trade Union. Three
years later, in collusion with Varatharaja Perumal and three
others, Balakumaran staged a day-light robbery of the bank on
May 10, 1976.
Varatharaja Perumal, as EPRLF leader went
on to become the first chief minister of the North-East
Provincial Council under Indian patronage. When the LTTE put a
price on his head, India whisked him away to a safe hideout some
where in Northern India. The other accomplices of the robbery
were S. Thavarajah of the EPDP and former Member of Parliament,
Thangamahenthiran, Santhiramohan and Natkunananthan (Kovai
Nanthan).
The long arm of law caught up with the
gang and the loot was recovered. This is the only bank robbery
that has been solved in the Jaffna district till date.
Police records show that Balakumaran,
while on bail in the robbery case, planned and killed almost all
the police officers who had investigated the case. They are
Jaffna Headquarter Inspector Pathmanathan, Inspector Kumar,
Sub-Inspector Perampalam, Constable Karunanidhi and two other
Constables with same name, Shanmuganathan.
The killing of Perampalam is said to be connected with another
robbery case in Mrunkan as well. Along with him, Inspector
Bastiampillai became a prey to Balakumaran.
The accused also tortured to death
Inspector Jeyakumar, who was on the investigation team.
Reports say an LTTE operative identified
as one Kugan has met Indian High Commission officials in London
and urged them to put pressure on Colombo through Delhi for the
release of Balakumaran.
-Asian Tribune-
TamilNets english
translation of BBC Tamils interview with Elilans wife,
Ananthi Sasitharan, follows:
Mrs. Ananthi Sasitharan: My husband surrendered to the army
along with other LTTE officials and combatants in front of
my eyes in Mullaiththeevu on 18 May 2009 and I have urged
the [LLRC] Commission to locate him for me.
BBC: At what place?
Ananthi: A place in Mullaiththeevu area beyond Vadduvaakal
Bridge. It was there they all surrendered led by Fr.
Francis, the principal of an English school. We, the wives
of the surrendered, are searching for them but there is no
information about them.
BBC: Where is this priest?
Ananthi: He too is missing. I asked another priest when I
saw him in Vavuniyaa but he said that Fr. Francis is missing
and they are searching for him.
BBC: Who were the other important persons who surrendered
along with Elilan?
Ananthi: Political Wing Deputy Chief Thangkan, Head of
Administrative Unit Poovannan, Piriyan, Ilamparithi,
Sports Wing Chief Raja and his 3 children, Lawrence Thilakar,
Yogi, Theepan, Kuddi and Holster Babu. I can name only these
persons. Though I knew many others I do not know their
names.
BBC: Did they take away only those who surrendered or did
they take you along with them?
Ananthi: I went behind them with my children. The army
officers identified my husband and called him Mavilaaru
Elilan. The army officers who stopped me on the way said
that I being a government employee should go along with the
people and that my husband will be released later.
BBC: Did they bring you to Vavuniyaa camp?
Ananthi: Yes, after half an hour after the surrender we were
taken to Oamanthai in a truck by another route. There were
no contacts (with my husband) after that.
BBC: After the surrender have you seen or talked to your
husband at least once?
Ananthi: No, not at all. There was no contact by letter or
any other way. No one had even said to me that they had seen
him.
BBC: Some former Liberation Tiger combatants have been
released. Did any one of them say they had seen Mr. Elilan?
Ananthi: I did ask them but they said they had not seen him.
Some disabled were released and I also approached them. Even
now I continue to ask everyone being released but they say
that they do not know anything.
BBC: [Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms Minister] D.E.W
Gunasekara has said that the families of the persons
surrendered had been informed of the persons held in
detention. Were you informed?
Ananthi: No. I met DEW Gunasekara in Kilinochchi with my
three children and gave him an appeal explaining my
situation. He did not give an answer then. A month later I
received the copies of my appeal and a letter forwarding my
appeal to another ministry. So far I have not heard anything
from these ministries.
BBC: Now you have witnessed before the commission. Do you
believe any thing positive would result?
Ananthi: President himself is unable to say anything about
it [the whereabouts of Mr. Elilan]. What can this Commission
do? This is only a ... [edited]. It looks as though I have
said these things to them only for the consolation of my
mind.
BBC: You were in the Tiger control area during the last
phase of the war. It is alleged that Tigers caused
inconveniences to the people like child conscription and
there are allegations of Tigers shooting people who tried to
get out of the area. Did the commission ask anything about
this when you witnessed before it today?
Ananthi: No, they did not. [During the height of the war] we
were all living in open-air bunker. We were not able to
monitor the activities. Earlier, all the people supported
the Tigers. Now, when they have come into army-controlled
area, they speak in favour of the army.
BBC: What really happened at the last moment?
Ananthi: We expected some country would step in to resolve
the crisis... We believed that a dawn would come, a solution
would come through [international] mediation after all
hardships we went through. But, nothing happened. Everything
went out of hand for us to end up in the army-controlled
area. We came as living corpses into army-controlled area.
All the countries have betrayed us. [inaudible].
BBC: Didnt persons like Elilan try to escape to another
country?
Ananthi: No. They did not attempt [to escape] and they did
not want their families to go. It was their loyalty... they
said that let us face whatever that happens with our people.
Even we didnt think about leaving him [husband]. How could
we?
BBC: You earlier said that your husband had been identified
by the army as Maavilaaru Ezhilan when they took him away.
Even some among the Tamils blame that Maavilaaru episode
was the reason for the war and allege that Elilan did not
handle the issue properly... Was there any pressure due to
that, either before in the LTTE-controlled situation or now
under the army control?
Ananthi: I know about our society. I have lived with it for
40 years. The decision to lock the Maavilaaru [sluice
gates] was not been taken singly by Elilan, had it? It was
the decision of the Central Committee. It is a lie even if
some say that the issue was not handled just because it [the
gate] was locked. It was a matter that had to be decided by
the people in charge... If Elilan does something good he
gets praise and even if a small mistake occurs he gets
blamed. This is typical of our people, isnt it?
BBC: You as the mother of three girls, what is your present
situation and theirs? How do their lives and yours go?
Ananthi: I am a government employee and so I look after
their education and other needs. Though I am able to do this
I cannot do anything about their mental stress... they had
seen death in the war ... they had walked crossing over the
bodies of the dead ... they are greatly affected mentally...
I cannot fulfill their desire to see their father ...
however I manage to cater to their other needs like
education etc.
BBC: Have you any idea or guess as to where Elilan is or
what had happened to him?
Ananthi: There is no possibility of anything [dangerous]
happening to him. One thing should be made clear... Had he
gone missing in the battlefield then I would think that he
had been killed by army shells or Kfir attack. Where could
he be when he had surrendered himself to the army on the
18th in front of my very eyes? This is not something that
the President does not know... I believe that Elilan is
detained in a secret location. The army unlikely would have
had the intention of killing him as the war was over.
BBC: Can you remember the place where the surrender took
place? Can you witness about it before a commission in the
future?
Ananthi: We were first held fenced in by barbed wire in an
open place when we had passed Vadduvaakal bridge in
Mullaiththeevu. Then we walked to another open space where
there was a small building and it was in that building they
surrendered... I am not sure whether I will be able to
identify the place now
BBC: Do the family members of other persons surrendered know
their whereabouts?
Ananthi: No, they dont. I keep meeting them in public
places ... We keep going to the offices of ICRC and Human
Rights Commission. But so far we havent had any information
of those who surrendered [with my husband].
BBC: You are speaking so very bravely to the media. Do you
have any fear of its consequences?
Ananthi: Not at all. I do not care for any repercussions. I
am not afraid. I am prepared to face anything since we don't
now live with the zest for life. This is what I told the [LLRC]
commission too!
Two prominent LTTE leaders in Sri Lanka are missing
after arrest by the army last year, their wives have told
a presidential commission, BBC reports.
LTTE spokesman Rasiah Ilantherian and head of the Tiger
intelligence wing in Batticaloa, Prabha have not been seen
since being detained, they said.
The two wives were among hundreds of Tamil and Muslims
testifying to the panel in Batticaloa, eastern Sri Lanka.
Many Tamil civilians complained about missing relatives.
The government has made no comment about these cases, but
has previously rejected accusations of abductions by human
rights groups.
The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission has been
conducting hearings over the weekend.
Punitharuban Vanitha, the wife of the Tamil Tiger
spokesman Ilantherian said her husband was taken away by
the army on 17 May 2009, just before the Tigers suffered
their final defeat.
She was told, she said, that he would be returned after
treatment for minor injuries. Ms Vanitha says that she has
not seen her husband since then.
Bobitha Prabhaharan, the wife of Prabha, also said her
husband was detained in May last year, and has heard
nothing from him since.
Muslims lands occupied
Representatives of the Muslim community, meanwhile, told
the panel that Muslims are yet to resettle in their
ancestral lands as Tamils are still occupying it.
They warned of renewed conflicts if steps were not taken
to give back land captured by the Tamils during the
conflict.
The panel was appointed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to
investigate events from 2002 to end of the conflict in May
last year, and recommend measures for reconciliation.
Critics, however, have questioned the credibility of the
investigation and whether its report would ever be
published.
BBC
இளந்திரையன் மனைவி சாட்சியம்
ஒக்தோபர் 09 2010

இளந்திரையன்
இலங்கை ஜனாதிபதியினால் நியமிக்கப்பட்டுள்ள
கற்றுக் கொண்ட பாடங்கள் மற்றும் நல்லிணக்கத்திற்கான ஜனாதிபதி
ஆணைக்குழு சனிக்கிழமை கிழக்கு மாகாணத்தில் தனது விசாரணைகளை
ஆரம்பித்துள்ளது.
இதில் விடுதலைப் புலிகளின் முன்னாள் படைத்
துறை பேச்சாளரான இளந்திரையன் அல்லது மார்ஷல் எனப்படும்
இராசையா சிவரூபனின் மனைவி உட்பட விடுதலைப் புலி
முக்கியஸ்தர்களின் மனைவிமார்களும் சாட்சியமளித்தனர்.
மட்டக்களப்பு மாவட்ட செயலக மண்டபத்தில்
சனிக்கிழமை நடைபெற்ற ஜனாதிபதி ஆணைக்குழு முன்னிலையில்
சாட்சியமளித்த இராசையா சிவரூபனின் மனைவி வனிதா சிவரூபன்,
2009 ம் ஆண்டு மே மாதம் 17 ம் தேதி தனது கணவர்
இராணுவத்தினரால் காயத்திற்கு சிகிச்சையளிக்க வைத்தியசாலைக்கு
கொண்டு செல்வதாகக் கூறி அழைத்துச் செல்லப்பட்டதாகவும், அதன்
பின்னர் தனது கணவனைப் பற்றிய தகவல்கள் இல்லை." என
தெரிவித்தார்.
கணவன் இராணுவத்தினரால் அழைத்துச் செல்லப்பட்டு
சில நாட்களின் பின்பு முகாமில் தங்கியிருந்தபோது, அங்கு
சி.ஐ.டி. என தம்மை அறிமுகப்படுத்தி வந்த இருவர் கணவர்
வைத்தியசாலையில் சிகிச்சை பெற்று வருவதாகக் கூறி தங்களை
அழைத்துச் செல்ல வந்த போதிலும் தாம் மறுத்து விட்டதாகவும்
தெரிவித்தார் வனிதா சிவரூபன்.
தனது கணவன் எங்கோ ஓரிடத்தில் உயிருடன்
இருப்பதாக தனது நம்பிக்கையை வெளியிட்டு தனது பிள்ளைகளுக்காக
கணவனை கண்டு பிடித்து தருமாறு ஆணைக்குழுவிடம் அவர்
வேண்டுகோள் விடுத்தார்.
மற்றுமொரு முன்னாள் விடுதலைப் புலி
முக்கியஸ்தரான கிருஷ்ணபிள்ளை பிரபாகரனின் மனைவி பொபித்தா
பிரபாகரன் சாட்சியமளிக்கையில், தமது குடும்பத்தினர்
இடம்பெயர்ந்து வட்டுவான் என்னுமிடத்தில் ஏனைய பொது மக்களுடன்
வந்த போது இராணுவத்தினர் விசாரணைக்கு எனக் கூறி பொது மக்கள்
முன்னிலையில் கணவரை அழைத்துச் சென்றதாகவும் அதன் பின்னர்
அவரைப் பற்றிய தகவல்களை தன்னால் அறிய முடியாமல் இருப்பதாகக்
கூறினார்.
கிருஷ்ணபிள்ளை பிரபாகரன் மனைவி
ஆணைக்குழு விசாரணையின் போது சாட்சியமளிக்க சமூகமளித்திருந்த
பொது மக்களில் அநேகமானோர் காணாமல் போன தமது கணவர் அல்லது
பிள்ளைகள் பற்றிய தகவல்களைப் பெற்று தருவது தொடர்பாகவே வாய்
மூலமும் எழுத்து மூலமும் தமது சாட்சியங்களை ஆணைக்குழு முன்
வைத்தனர்.
கடந்த மாதம் இந்த ஆணைக்குழு வன்னியில் அமர்வு மேற்கொண்ட போது,
ஆணைக்குழுவின் முன் வந்து சாட்சியமளித்த விடுதலைப் புலிகளின்
திருகோணமலை மாவட்ட அரசியல்துறைப் பொறுப்பாளராக இருந்த
எழிலனின் மனைவி ஆனந்தி சசிதரன், தனது கணவர் மே 18 ஆம் தேதி
இராணுவத்திடம் சரணடைந்ததாகவும், அதன் பிறகு அவரைக் காணவில்லை
என்றும் கூறியிருந்தார்.
போரின் இறுதி கட்டத்தில் 10 ஆயிரத்துக்கும் மேற்பட்ட
விடுதலைப் படையினரிடம் சரணடைந்ததாக இலங்கை அரசு கூறுகிறது.
ஆனால் தடுத்து வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள முன்னாள் புலிகளின் பெயர்
விபரங்களை வெளியிட இலங்கை அரசு தொடர்ந்து மறுத்து வருகிறது.
இதன் காரணமாக சட்டத்துக்குப் புறம்பான கொலைகள் நடக்க
சாத்தியமிருப்பதாக மனித உரிமை அமைப்புக்கள் கவலை வெளியிட்டு
வருகின்றன.
Sri Lankan minister says Tamils seek money not safe
haven
Prof. Peries is a turn coat who has been jumping
ship several times. If these refugees are economic
refugees why they should flee the Island after the
war is over? The truth is though the war is over
there is no normalcy in the Northeast. 89
persons in the east have gone missing after the war
ended in May, 2009.
Imelda Sukumar, Government Agent, Jaffna told
BBC (Tamil Service) on Wednesday that 77
young girls have been subject to sexual and
physical abuse by the armed forces stationed there.
There are 184 teenaged pregnancy cases in the
Jaffna district. There are 444 orphaned children.
Out of this number only 154 are supported by INGOs.
They are paid Rs.5000 per month. The number of
unregistered marriages total 379 since their
'husbands' have deserted them!
One girl who got pregnant following rape by a
Sinhalese Sri Lankan army intelligent officer gave
birth to a child, but the young mother did not wish
to bring up the child. She gave the child to the
orphanage.
Sri Lanka's history of the past three decades has
been violent and conflict ridden. Over 150,000
have died during the last 30 years. Out of this
40,000 died during the last phase of the war by
aerial bombardment and multi-barrel shelling.
Whatever Minister Peeiris may say, three
decades of violent conflict has resulted in a deeply
divided and polarized society. Sri Lanka might
be one country geographically but remain
polarized ethno socially.
Instead of a simplistic and blanket denial of
the alienation of the Tamil people from the Sri
Lankan polity, the response should be to
look at the state of public security. It is
not possible to simultaneously argue the need to
maintain emergency law, wartime levels of defence
expenditure, troop deployment at war time levels and
a network of security installations in the North,
not found anywhere else in the country. It is
therefore preposterous for Minister Peiris to
maintain that the Tamil people are not alienated
from the Sri Lankan State and those who are fleeing
are economic refugees in search of greener
pastures. The racist Sri Lankan government continue
to divide the people instead of uniting them based
on equality and justice.
The fact of the matter is
internationally and in the diplomatic
community and the Tamil Diaspora, the Sri Lankan
government is considered as a rogue state practicing
totalitarianism!
According to Failed States Index of the Foreign
Policy publication, Sri Lanka is fifth in the second
league of twenty failed states for the year 2010.
The worst performer is Somalia in the first league
topping the list scoring 114.3 points. Sri Lanka is
25th with the score of 95.7 points.
Sri Lanka has been ranked 22nd in 2009, 20th in
2008 and 25th in 2007. Though it achieved its
ranking to the 25th in 2010 like in 2007, its
scoring rate in the league has gone up from 93.10 to
95.70.
Scoring rate for last four years are: 2010 95.70,
2009- 96.70, 2008 95.60 and 2007 93.10.
The ranking has pushed downward because, some
countries outperforming Sri Lanka in the failed
states league. The 2010 scoring index gives alarming
signals that Sri Lanka is progressing towards
entering the first 20 failing states in the league
with its ever escalating bad governance.
The Failed Text Index assessed the states under
twelve important governing issues. These are
democratic pressures, Refugees IDPs, Group
Grievance, Human Flight, Uneven Development,
Economic Decline, Demilitarisation of the State,
Public Services, Human Rights, Security Apparatus,
Factionalised Elites and External Intervention. Sri
Lanka was rated extremely badly on Refugees IDPs,
Group Grievance and Factionalised Elites scoring
over 9 points. Overall the assessment under each of
the categories is over 5 points.
Is it then a small wonder that Tamils are fleeing in
droves to escape from a fascist cum Nazi state?
Canada instead of arbitrarily blocking refugees from
coming here should help solve the ethnic
problem plaguing the island paradise. That is a
better and more sensible way to deal with Tamil
refugee problem.
Veluppillai Thangavelu
Where are surrendered senior LTTE carders?
eelanatham
Recent statement of the army spoke person and Mahinda brothers
stated , there are no any particular named carders (including
Elilan, Thangan, Puthuvai and Bala kumar ..) in the army
custody and they indirectly said these carders were killed in the
battle field.
On the 18 (Monday) May 2009 at morning, the day before the
official end of the war, Fr Francis Joseph had made arrangements
with the army to surrender about 45 members of the LTTE in Vanni.
They were taken to an agreed point near Vadduvahal in Mullaittivu
district and they surrendered to the army in the presence of many
civilians waiting to be taken to transit camps.
The army separated the LTTE men from the civilian and carried out
a thorough body search of each person. Following this, each one of
them were photographed and boarded into a bus and taken away.
Minister Dew Gunasekara also shared with Bala kumars
relation, they are not in the army custody.
On May 31, 2009,
Lankafirst.com website running from Colombo quoting Government
of Srilanka information department sources, reported that some top
Tiger leaders who were in the military custody for the
investigations.
(L-R) V. Balakumaran, Baby Subramaniam and Mr.Thangan

Former Eastern political wing leader Karikalan, Yokaratnam Yogi,
Bala kumaran,Lawrence Thilakar, former deputy political wing
Thangan,Jaffna district political leader Ilamparuthi, sports
division Paapa, Tamileelam administrative head Poovannan and mr
ghanam are in the army custody said.
A civilian witnessing the surrender confirmed that LTTEs senior
men Lawrence Thilagar later known as Lawrence Christy,
Illamparuthi, Yogaratnam Yogi, LTTEs poet laureate Puthuvai
Rathinathurai, Thangan or Sudha (LTTE deputy head), Finance wing
Kutti, Sports incharge Paapa and Tamileelam administrative head
Poovannan and Trinco political head Elilan were some of the
surrendered LTTE men. With them was Fr Francis Joseph.He too was
taken away by the army.
One of the Mullivaikkal victim Mr.Ishidor.Jegan who was working
for a local NGO said, personally who knew above the LTTE
carders and they were supported to their relief works in
Mullivaikkal.He was one of the eye witness of surrenderd LTTE.
Later, end of May 2009 and June 1st week, some of army brokers
demanded millions of rupees money to release some LTTE carders
including Mr.Kutti and Mr.Poovannan. One of surrenderd carder
Piriyan who was second incharge of administrative division, who
spoke with his friends by phone and asking money to his release (
might be infront of army people).
Then, Karuna ( Vinayakamoorthy Muralitharan) told his friends and
some LTTE carders relatives, He met Ilamparuthi, Pappa and Piriyan
also Poovannan and kutti as well. He promissed to them to release
those carders also seeking money from them.
In June and July, some of lower level LTTE carders were released
by the forces facilitated by army brokers for millions of money,
provided carders relations. When we contacted the released
carders, they told us, they saw Mr.Kutti and others when they
surrenderd in Vadduvahal.
The relatives of these LTTE members have made several attempts to
find the whereabouts of these men including Fr Joseph, but they
were facing the brick wall all the time. Earlier the army brokers
and political people promissed to release soon and asked money
including Karuna and PLOT paramilitary group. Some of them in
desperation had approached the Minister Douglas Devananda.
But all of them now off their business and say there are no any
LTTE (Leaders) in the army custody. Mr Moorthy who was one of NGO
worker witness also confirmed that LTTEs K V Balakumar
surrendered to the army on the 16 May 2009 and he was taken away
into captivity by the army.
But now the situation was changed. Mahinda regime trying to white
wash to all the incidents through LLRC.
We learned, Dew Gunasekaras confirmation that both Yogaratnam
Yogi and K V Bala kumar died in the battle, contrary to their
surrender and detention by the army is worrying tales for the
relatives who fear that the others too may have faced same fate
like the two claimed by the minister Dew Gunesekara. The witness
asserted that both men did not die in the battle and categorically
refuted the ministers claim of death in the battlefield.
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You
are absolutely right. Our women folk start crying at the drop of a cat.
I really salute Aananthi's courage in the face of adversity.
She
is a symbol of courage and an example to others.
You
get concessions by asking, but you get your rights by fighting.
His
Hon. Marzuki Darusman
UN Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
info@aseanhrmech.org
Her Hon. Ms. Sooka Yasmin
UN Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
YSooka@fhr.org.za
His
Hon. Steven R. Ratner
UN Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
sratner@umich.edu
LTTE
top rung leaders summarily executed by Sri Lankan armed forces
after they surrendered!
Ananthi Sasitharan, the wife of former LTTE Political Head of
Trincomalee Elilan, from Vanni told BBC Tamil Service Saturday, after
appearing in front of Rajapaksas Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation
Commission (LLRC) that held open hearing in Vanni, that her husband Mr.
Elilan and other senior LTTE officials Yogaratnam Yogi and Lawrance
Thilakar, both of whom took part in negotiations earlier, and LTTE
Political Wing Deputy Chief Thangkan, former Jaffna Political Head
Ilamparithi, Head of Administrative Unit Poovannan, Piriyan,
Theepan, Ilamparithi, Sports Wing Chief Raja and his 3 children,
Lawrence Thilakar, Yogi, Theepan, Kuddi and Holster Babu were among
those surrendered to the Sri Lankan forces under the coordination of a
Catholic Priest at Vadduvaakal in Mullaiththeevu on 18 May 2009 in front
of her eyes.
To
this list must be added the names of Poet Rathnathurai, V.Balakumar,
LTTE strategist, Karikalan, Head of the Political department, Batticaloa
and Ilankumaran (Baby Subramaniam) Head of the Educational Department.
The list is by no means complete. It can run into hundreds, if not
thousands.
Sixteen months after all of them are missing. The
inference is irresistible that all of the surrendees have been
summarily executed by the army. Sri Lankan armed forces have brazenly
committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide during and
AFTER the war with impunity. Even after the war is over 89 Tamils
have disappeared in the eastern province. Hundreds, if not thousands of
Tamils continue to be arrested and imprisoned in jails in the
south under the notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and
Emergency Regulations. Some are languishing prisons for over 15 years
without trial or charges!
Ananthi Sasitharan (40) told BBC Tamil that SL
President should know the whereabouts of her husband and fellow LTTE
officials surrendered through a Catholic Priest in Mullaiththeevu on 18
May 2009. If they have not been murdered then the government must
produce them or disclose their whereabouts. It should be mentioned the
ICRC, media, INGOs, Members of Parliament, UN Agencies have been denied
access to internment camps holding LTTE cadres.
The
Sri Lankan government has already unleashed vituperative
attacks as part of an insidious propaganda war against the
UN Panel appointed by Ban Ki -moon the Panel to look into
the modalities, applicable international standards and comparative
experience with regard to accountability processes, taking into account
the nature and scope of any alleged violations in Sri Lanka during the
last stages of war with the Tamil Tigers. It claimed the UN Panel
is " an evil interference in the domestic affairs of Sri Lanka" and
the brainchild of Ban Ki -moon.
The
Ministry Of External Affairs has also expressed strong opposition
stating Sri Lanka regards the appointment of the Sri Lanka Panel of
Experts as an unwarranted and unnecessary interference with a sovereign
nation. This interference, moreover, has potential for exploitation by
vested interests hostile to the process of reconciliation taking place
in Sri Lanka. The statement continued "Sri Lanka is a sovereign state
with a robustly independent judiciary and a tried and tested system for
the administration of justice. The Government of Sri Lanka has
consistently promoted and protected human rights. Indeed, this has been
explicitly acknowledged by legitimate organs of the United Nations
system. The Human Rights Council of the United Nations has formally
adopted, after the cessation of the conflict situation, a resolution
commending, inter alia, the commitment of Sri Lanka to the promotion and
protection of human rights. Of course this claim is ludicrous and
a huge joke especially in the light of the 18th Amendment which vests
all powers with the President.
Government Spokesman and Media and Information Minister Keheliya
Rambukwella has accused the UN of having a hidden agenda.
He released a statement which read The United Nations
appointing of a Panel of Experts to advise the Secretary General on
accountability of activities that took place towards the last end of war
in Sri Lanka is uncalled for and unnecessary.
It is
our hope the UN Panel will render justice to the thousands of men, women
and children slaughtered by the Sri Lankan government forces.
Veluppillai Thangavelu
LTTE former commander Yaan's wife witnesses on
SLA war crime
[TamilNet, Monday, 10 January 2011, 06:39 GMT]
Bearing witness in front of Mahinda Rajapaksa's Lessons Learnt &
Reconciliation Committee (LLRC) in Maanthai West in Mannaar on Sunday, Mrs
R. Mironio, the wife of LTTE's former Mannaar commander Antony Rayappu
alias Yaan, said she has not heared from her husband or not told of the
whereabouts of him after he surrendered in front of her in SLA controlled
territory in Mullaiththeevu on 18 May 2009. The surrender was facilitated
by facilitated by Catholic Priest Rev. Fr. Francis Joseph, she said. The
priest was also taken with her husband, but noone have heared about them,
she said. Read more........
http://genocidesrilanka.blogspot.com/2011/01/146679-vanni-people-missing-within-year.html
March 31, 2008 at 10:57 pm Filed under
Federalidea,
Full Text of Press Release
A
29-page report released today by the University Teachers for Human
Rights (Jaffna) names state security personnel responsible for the
summary executions of 17 Action Contre la Faim (ACF) aid workers in
Mutur, Sri Lanka on 4 August 2006. The report details the grisly
killings, the role of senior police officials in the murders, and the
failure of the government to properly investigate the crime.
Eyewitness testimony and other information uncovered by UTHR(J) reveals
that the Sri Lankan aid workers were killed by a member of the Muslim
Home Guards, and two police constables in the presence of the Sri Lankan
Naval Special Forces around 4.30 pm on Friday, 4 August 2006. Evidence
suggests that the killers were given the green light to murder the aid
workers by police officials in Mutur, who may have gotten the go-ahead
from senior police officials in the district capital, Trincomalee.
UTHR(J) presents evidence that indicates at least one aid worker was
killed by a member of the Naval Special Forces, who were present and did
nothing to stop the killings. The report implicates several senior
police officers, including Rohan Abeywardene, Deputy Inspector General,
and Kapila Jayasekere, Senior Superintendent of Police in Trincomalee,
as being complicit in the crime and names Jehangir, a member of the
Muslim Home Guards, and two police constables, Susantha and Nilantha, as
those who pulled the triggers.
The
evidence shows that state security forces, including police, killed the
17 aid workers and that senior police officials covered it up, said Dr.
Rajan Hoole of UTHR(J). The killing of civilians during times of
conflict is a war crime. The perpetrators and their superiors should be
brought to justice for this grievous crime.
The
UTHR(J) report points to the strong link between the killing of the 17
aid workers and the earlier killing of five Tamil students on the
beachfront in Trincomalee on 2 January 2006. One of the 17, Kodeeswaran,
was the brother of one of the five murdered students. The report gives
incidents suggestive of an ominous interest taken in Kodeeswaran by SSP
Jayasekere, who was implicated in the planning and cover-up of the
murder of the five students. SSP Jayasekere was never prosecuted for the
deaths of the five students, despite evidence pointing to his
involvement in the murders, but was instead promoted shortly before the
killings of the aid workers.
The
murder of the 17 ACF workers occurred in the context of an attack on
Mutur by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The government has
repeatedly blamed the LTTE for the killings, but UTHR(J)s extensive
research shows that they occurred after the LTTE had retreated from
Mutur town. At the time of the killings, most of the towns residents
had fled for safety, fearing further fighting. Action Contre la Faim had
communicated to the authorities that the aid workers remained in their
compound, so there should have been no confusion as to whether they were
civilians or fighters.
Rather than seeking the truth and tackling impunity, the Sri Lankan
authorities, their experts, the Attorney General and diplomats overseas
have covered up the facts of the 2006 killings, along with any potential
association between the ACF massacre and the killing of five students in
Trincomalee.
Had
disciplinary action been instituted against SP Jayasekere over the
killing of the five students instead of promoting him to SSP, the 17 aid
workers would probably be alive today, said Dr. Rajan Hoole. The Sri
Lankan government needs to end impunity to deter more abuses by the
state security forces, the LTTE and other armed actors in Sri Lankas
quarter-century of conflict.
UTHR(J) said that it hoped the report released today would open a window
to lighten the abyss created by high-level cover-ups and official
acquiescence in murder. These cases of the 17 ACF aid workers and the 5
students from Trincomalee, given the international concern, remain the
most promising means of making cracks in the prison of impunity that
grips the nation.
About
the University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna)
http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/392
UTHR(J) have been documenting and publicizing human rights abuses in
Sri Lanka since the late 1980s and were one of the pioneers
internationally, in highlighting the abuses of non-state actors,
particularly abuses by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. In 2007
UTHR(J) were awarded the prestigious Martin Ennals Award for Human
Rights Defenders. UTHR(J) has written extensively on the killings of the
aid workers and the five students and this is the first report to shed
light on the perpetrators of the killings and also the extensive high
level cover-up of the truth.
தமிழக
முதலமைச்சர்
ஜெயலலிதா
இலங்கை
அரசிற்கெதிராக
பொருளாதாரத்
தடை
விதிக்க
வேண்டும்
இலங்கையில்
போர்க்குற்றத்தில்
ஈடுபட்ட
இலங்கை
அரசையும்
ராஜபட்சேவையும்
போர்க்குற்றவாளிகளாக
பிரகடனம்
செய்ய
ஐநா
அவையை
இந்தியா
வலியுறுத்த
வேண்டும்
என்றும்,
இலங்கை
மீது
பொருளாதாரத்
தடை
கொண்டு
வர
வேண்டும்
என்றும்
மத்திய
அரசை
வலியுறுத்தும்
தீர்மானத்தை
தமிழக
முதல்வர்
ஜெயலலிதா
கொண்டு
வந்தார்.
தீர்மானம்
மீதான்
விவாதத்தின்
பின்னர்
ஏகமனதாக
தீர்மானம்
நிறைவேற்றப்பட்டது.
தீர்மானத்தைக்
கொண்டு
வந்த
முதல்வர்
ஜெயலலிதா
பேசும்
போது,
இலங்கை
நாட்டுக்கு
பிரிட்டிஷ்
அரசிடமிருந்து
விடுதலை
கிடைத்துவிட்டாலும்
அங்கு
வாழும்
தமிழர்கள்,
தங்கள்
சொந்த
நாட்டிலேயே
இரண்டாம்
தர
குடிமக்களாக
கருதப்பட்டனர்.
இதனையடுத்து,
தமிழர்களுக்கு
எதிரான
இலங்கை
அரசின்
அடக்குமுறைகளை
எதிர்த்தும்
'சுயாட்சி
அந்தஸ்து',
'தனி
ஈழம்'
உள்பட
பல்வேறு
கோரிக்கைகளை
வலியுறுத்தியும்
தமிழீழ
விடுதலைப்
புலிகள்
அமைப்பு
உட்பட
பல்வேறு
தமிழ்
அமைப்புகள்
1980-களில்
இருந்து
தொடர்ந்து
குரல்
எழுப்பி
போராடியதை
நீங்கள்
அனைவரும்
அறிவீர்கள்.
அதிமுக
உட்பட
தமிழ்நாட்டில்
உள்ள
அத்தனை
அரசியல்
கட்சிகளும்,
தமிழக
மக்களும்,
இலங்கைத்
தமிழர்களின்
உரிமைகள்
பாதுகாக்கப்பட
வேண்டும்
என்பதிலும்,
அவர்களுக்கு
சம
உரிமைகள்
வழங்கப்பட
வேண்டும்
என்பதிலும்
மிகுந்த
விருப்பம்
கொண்டிருந்தார்கள்.
இது
மட்டுமல்லாமல்,
அவர்களுக்கு
தங்களுடைய
தார்மீக
ஆதரவினையும்
அளித்தனர்.இந்தச்
சூழ்நிலையில்,
தமிழீழம்
என்ற
போர்வையில்
தீவிரவாதம்
தலைதூக்க
ஆரம்பித்து
இதன்
காரணமாக
தமிழ்ச்
சகோதரர்களே
படுகொலை
செய்யப்பட்ட
சம்பவங்கள்
எல்லாம்,
நடந்தேறின.
இதன்
உச்சகட்டமாக
இந்திய
நாட்டின்
பாதுகாப்பிற்கும்,
இறையாண்மைக்கும்,
ஒருமைப்பாட்டிற்கும்
ஊறு
விளைவிக்கும்
வகையில்,
முன்னாள்
பாரதப்
பிரதமர்
ராஜீவ்
காந்தி,
விடுதலைப்
புலிகள்
அமைப்பினரால்
1991 ஆம்
ஆண்டு
தமிழ்
மண்ணில்
கொடூரமாக
படுகொலை
செய்யப்பட்டார்.
இதனையடுத்து,
விடுதலைப்
புலிகள்
அமைப்பின்
மீது
இருந்த
அனுதாபம்
கடுமையான
எதிர்ப்பாக
மாறிவிட்டது.
1992-
ஆம்
ஆண்டு
நான்
தமிழ்நாட்டின்
முதலமைச்சராக
இருந்த
போது
என்னுடைய
வற்புறுத்தலின்
பேரில்
விடுதலைப்
புலிகள்
இயக்கத்தை
1967 ஆம்
ஆண்டு
சட்ட
விரோத
நடவடிக்கைகள்
தடுப்புச்
சட்டத்தின்
கீழ்
மத்திய
அரசு
தடை
செய்து,
அந்தத்
தடை
உத்தரவு
இரண்டு
ஆண்டுகளுக்கு
ஒரு
முறை
நீட்டிக்கப்பட்டு
வருகிறது.
இது
மட்டுமல்லாமல்,
முன்னாள்
பாரதப்
பிரதமர்
ராஜீவ்
காந்தி
கொலையில்
முதல்
குற்றவாளி
பிரபாகரனை
உடனடியாக
இலங்கை
அரசு
கைது
செய்து
இந்திய
அரசிடம்
ஒப்படைக்க
வேண்டும்
என்றும்,
தடை
செய்யப்பட்ட
இயக்கத்தைச்
சார்ந்த
எவரையும்
இந்தியாவிற்குள்
நுழைய
அனுமதிக்காமல்
இருக்க
நடவடிக்கை
எடுக்க
வேண்டும்
என்றும்
மத்திய
அரசை
வலியுறுத்தி
2002-ஆம்
ஆண்டு
இந்தச்
சட்டமன்றப்
பேரவையில்
தீர்மானம்
நிறைவேற்றப்பட்டது.2005-ஆம்
ஆண்டு
நவம்பர்
மாதம்
இலங்கை
அரசின்
அதிபராக
மஹிந்தா
ராஜபக்ஷே
பொறுப்பேற்றுக்
கொண்டார்.
2006-ஆம்
ஆண்டு
மே
மாதத்தில்
தமிழகத்திலும்
துரதிர்ஷ்டவசமாக
ஆட்சி
மாற்றம்
ஏற்பட்டது.
மைனாரிட்டி
தி.மு.க.
அரசிற்கு
மு.கருணாநிதி
தலைமை
வகித்தார்.
மத்தியிலும்
தி.மு.க.
அங்கம்
வகிக்கும்
காங்கிரஸ்
தலைமையிலான
ஆட்சி
2004-முதல்
நடைபெற்று
வருகிறது.
இந்தச்
சூழ்நிலையில்,
இலங்கையில்
அமைதியை
ஏற்படுத்தும்
போர்வையில்
தமிழர்கள்
மீதான
அடக்குமுறைகளை
இலங்கை
அரசு
கட்டவிழ்த்துவிட
ஆரம்பித்தது.
2008-ஆம்
ஆண்டு
துவக்கத்தில்
இலங்கை
ராணுவத்தினர்
100 பேருக்கு
அரியானா
மாநிலத்தில்
இந்திய
ராணுவம்
ரகசியமான
முறையில்
போர்
பயிற்சி
அளித்ததாகவும்;
இலங்கை
ராணுவத்தினருக்கு
அதிநவீன
ரேடார்
கருவிகள்
உட்பட
பல்வேறு
வகையான
ஆயுதங்களை
இந்திய
அரசு
வழங்கியதாகவும்;
இந்திய
ராணுவத்தின்
மூத்த
அதிகாரிகள்
சிலர்
இலங்கை
சென்று
வந்ததாகவும்
அப்போது
ஊடகங்களில்
செய்திகள்
வந்தன.
அப்போது
முதலமைச்சராக
இருந்த
கருணாநிதிக்கு
இவை
அனைத்தும்
நன்கு
தெரிந்திருக்கும்
கலைஞர்
கருணாநிதி
மீது
குற்றச்சாட்டு.
இந்தியாவிடமிருந்து
தனக்குத்
தேவையான
ராணுவ
உதவிகளைப்
பெற்றுக்
கொண்ட
இலங்கை
ராணுவம்
2008-ஆம்
ஆண்டு
இறுதியிலும்,
2009-ஆம்
ஆண்டு
துவக்கத்திலும்,
இலங்கைத்
தமிழர்களை
கடுமையாக
தாக்க
ஆரம்பித்தது.
இலங்கையில்
போர்
நிறுத்தத்தை
ஏற்படுத்த
இலங்கை
அரசை
மத்திய
அரசு
நிர்ப்பந்திக்க
வேண்டும்
என
மத்திய
அரசில்
அங்கம்
வகிக்கும்
தி.மு.க.
வலியுறுத்த
வேண்டும்
என்றும்;
இதற்கு
காங்கிரஸ்
தலைமையிலான
மத்திய
அரசு
செவி
சாய்க்கவில்லையெனில்
மத்திய
அரசுக்கு
அளித்து
வரும்
ஆதரவினை
தி.மு.க.
விலக்கிக்
கொள்ள
வேண்டும்
என்றும்
நான்
பல
முறை
வற்புறுத்தினேன்.
ஆனால்
,
அப்போது
மைனாரிட்டி
தி.மு.க.
அரசின்
முதலமைச்சராக
இருந்த
கருணாநிதியோ,
அதைச்
செய்யவில்லை.
மாறாக,
'அனைத்துக்
கட்சிக்
கூட்டம்',
'சட்டமன்றக்
கட்சித்
தலைவர்கள்
கூட்டம்';
'தமிழ்நாடு
சட்டமன்றப்
பேரவையில்
தீர்மானம்',
'மனிதச்
சங்கிலி
போராட்டம்'
'பிரதமருக்கு
தந்தி';
'நாடாளுமன்ற
உறுப்பினர்கள்
ராஜினாமா
என்ற
அறிவிப்பு';
'ராஜினாமா
கடிதங்களை
தானே
பெற்றுக்
கொண்டது';
'இறுதி
எச்சரிக்கை
என்ற
அறிவிப்பு'
என
பல்வேறு
வகையான
நாடகங்கள்
தான்
முன்னாள்
முதலமைச்சர்
கருணாநிதியால்
நடத்தப்பட்டன.
இவற்றின்
உச்சகட்டமாக,
காலை
சிற்றுண்டியை
வீட்டில்
முடித்துவிட்டு
தலைமைச்
செயலகம்
செல்லும்
வழியில்
திடீரென்று
'போர்
நிறுத்தம்
ஏற்படும்
வரை
உண்ணாவிரதம்'
என்று
அறிவித்து
கடற்கரையில்
உண்ணாவிரதப்
போராட்டத்தை
மேற்கொள்ள
ஆரம்பித்தார்
கருணாநிதி.
மதிய
உணவு
வேளை
வந்தவுடன்
நண்பகல்
12 மணி
அளவில்
'விடுதலைப்
புலிகளுக்கு
எதிரான
ராணுவ
நடவடிக்கையை
இலங்கை
அரசு
முடித்துக்
கொண்டுவிட்டது'
என்ற
செய்தியை
ஊடகங்களுக்கு
அறிவித்துவிட்டு
தன்னுடைய
உண்ணாவிரதத்தை
முடித்துக்
கொண்டு
விட்டார்.
இதன்
மூலம்
'உண்ணாவிரதம்'
என்னும்
அறப்
போராட்டத்தை
கேலிக்
கூத்தாக்கிவிட்டார்
முன்னாள்
முதலமைச்சர்.
'
போர்
நிறுத்தம்
ஏற்பட்டு
விட்டது'
என்ற
முன்னாள்
முதல்வர்
கருணாநிதியின்
பேச்சைக்
கேட்டு
பாதுகாப்பாக
பதுங்குக்
குழிகளில்
பதுங்கியிருந்த
லட்சக்கணக்கான
அப்பாவித்
தமிழர்கள்
வெளி
வந்தனர்.
இவ்வாறு
வெளிவந்த
அப்பாவி
இலங்கைத்
தமிழர்கள்
மீது
இலங்கை
ராணுவத்தினர்
கொத்து
கொத்தாக
இடைவிடாது
குண்டுகளை
வீசி
அவர்களை
ஈவு
இரக்கமின்றி
படுகொலை
செய்தனர்.
இரண்டு
லட்சத்திற்கும்
மேற்பட்ட
அப்பாவித்
தமிழர்கள்
இலங்கை
ராணுவ
முகாம்களில்
கம்பிகளால்
ஆன
வேலிகளுக்கு
பின்னால்
அடைத்து
வைக்கப்பட்டதாகவும்;
முகாம்களில்
அடைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள
தமிழ்ப்
பெண்கள்
இலங்கை
ராணுவப்
படையினரின்
கண்
முன்னேயே
பொது
இடங்களில்
இயற்கை
உபாதைகளை
கழிக்கக்
கூடிய
நிலைமைக்கும்,
குளிக்கக்
கூடிய
நிலைமைக்கும்
ஆளாக்கப்பட்டதாகவும்;
தமிழர்கள்
குடியிருந்த
பகுதிகளில்
எல்லாம்
சிங்களர்கள்
குடியேறி
இருப்பதாகவும்
செய்திகள்
வந்தன.
ஆனால்,
கனிமொழி
உட்பட
ஐக்கிய
முற்போக்கு
கூட்டணி
சார்பில்
இலங்கை
சென்று
இலங்கை
அதிபர்
ராஜபக்ஷேவுடன்
சிரித்துப்
பேசி;
விருந்துண்டு;
பரிசுப்
பொருட்களை
பெற்று
சென்னை
திரும்பிய
நாடாளுமன்றக்
குழுவோ,
'இலங்கைத்
தமிழர்கள்
எல்லோரும்
நலமாக
இருக்கிறார்கள்'
என்று
ஒரு
உண்மைக்கு
மாறான
தகவலை
வெளியிட்டது.
உண்மை
நிலை
என்னவென்றால்,
போரினால்
இடம்
பெயர்ந்த
தமிழர்கள்
மறுவாழ்வு
பெறாமல்
இன்னமும்
அவதிப்பட்டுக்
கொண்டு
தான்
இருக்கிறார்கள்.'போர்
நிறுத்தம்
ஏற்பட்டு
விட்டது'
என்ற
உண்மைக்கு
மாறான
தகவலைக்
கூறி
இலங்கைத்
தமிழர்களை
இலங்கை
ராணுவத்திடம்
காட்டிக்
கொடுத்துவிட்டார்
கருணாநிதி.
'தமிழினப்
பாதுகாவலர்'
என்று
தன்னைத்
தானே
சொல்லிக்
கொண்டு
'தமிழினப்
படுகொலை'-க்கு
துணை
போயிருப்பதை
பார்க்கும்
போது
'உறவு
போல்
இருந்து
குளவி
போல்
கொட்டுவது'
என்னும்
பழமொழி
தான்
நினைவிற்கு
வருகிறது.இவற்றை
எல்லாம்
நான்
இங்கே
சுட்டிக்
காட்டுவதற்குக்
காரணம்
முன்னாள்
முதலமைச்சரை
குற்றம்
சாட்ட
வேண்டும்;
முந்தைய
மைனாரிட்டி
தி.மு.க.
அரசை
குறை
சொல்ல
வேண்டும்
என்பதற்காக
அல்ல.
அப்பாவி
இலங்கைத்
தமிழர்கள்
உயிர்
இழப்பதற்கு
முந்தைய
அரசு
காரணமாக
அமைந்துவிட்டதே
என்ற
ஆற்றாமையால்
தான்
இவற்றை
நான்
இங்கே
குறிப்பிடுகிறேன்.
முந்தை
மைனாரிட்டி
தி.மு.க.
அரசின்
சுயநலப்
போக்கு
மற்றும்
கையாலாகாத்தனம்
காரணமாக
பல்லாயிரக்கணக்கான
தமிழர்கள்
இலங்கை
ராணுவத்தின்
குண்டு
மழைக்கு
பலியாகி
இருக்கிறார்கள்;
குண்டு
மழைக்கு
விலக்களிக்கப்பட்ட
பகுதி
மற்றும்
மருத்துவமனைகள்
மீதெல்லாம்
இலங்கை
ராணுவம்
குண்டுமழை
பொழிந்து
இருக்கிறது;
மனிதாபிமான
அடிப்படையில்
நிவாரணப்
பொருட்கள்
மக்களை
சென்றடைவதை
இலங்கை
அரசு
தடுத்து
நிறுத்தி
இருக்கிறது;
உணவு
மற்றும்
குடிநீர்
பற்றாக்குறை
காரணமாக
ஏராளமான
தமிழர்கள்
மரணமடைந்துள்ளனர்;
மனித
உரிமை
மீறல்கள்
நிகழ்ந்துள்ளன.
இந்தக்
காரணங்களுக்காகத்தான்
இந்தத்
தீர்மானம்
கொண்டு
வரப்பட்டது.
இலங்கை
மீது
பொருளாதார
தடையின்
அவசியம்...
இங்கே
பேசிய
மார்க்சிஸ்ட்
கம்யூனிஸ்ட்
கட்சி
உறுப்பினர்
சௌந்தரராஜன்,
பொருளாதாரத்
தடையைக்
கொண்டு
வர
வேண்டுமென்ற
வரிகளை
விலக்கிக்
கொண்டால்
என்ன
என்ற
ஒரு
கருத்தை
இங்கே
தெரிவித்தார்.
இதனால்
அப்பாவித்
தமிழ்
மக்களும்
பாதிக்கப்படுவார்களே
என்ற
ஒரு
கருத்தைச்
சொன்னார்.
இப்போதே
இலங்கை
அரசு
யாருக்கும்
பணியவில்லை.
அங்கே
வாழ்கின்ற
இலங்கைத்
தமிழர்களுக்கு
சிங்களர்களோடு
அனைத்து
உரிமைகளையும்,
குடியுரிமைகளையும்
வழங்க
வேண்டுமென்று
இந்தியா
சொன்னாலும்,
யார்
சொன்னாலும்,
அவர்கள்
அதை
மதிக்கவில்லை.
அதனால்,
அவர்களை
எப்படி
வழிக்குக்
கொண்டு
வருவது,
அவர்களை
வழிக்குக்
கொண்டு
வருவதற்கு
ஒரே
வழி
பொருளாதாரத்
தடைகள்தான்.
இதுவொரு
தற்காலிகமான
ஒரு
முறைதான்.
இந்திய
அரசும்,
இன்னும்
சில
நாடுகளும்
இணைந்து,
இலங்கை
அரசின்மீது
ஒரு
பொருளாதாரத்
தடையைக்
கொண்டு
வந்தால்,
குறுகிய
காலத்திற்குள்ளேயே
நாம்
சொல்வதை
இலங்கை
அரசு
கேட்டுத்தான்
ஆக
வேண்டுமென்ற
நிர்ப்பந்தம்
ஏற்படும்.
வேறு
வழியில்லை
என்பதற்காகத்தான்
இதைச்
சேர்த்திருக்கிறோம்.
ராஜபக்ஷே
போர்க்குற்றவாளியா?
இந்தத்
தீர்மானத்தின்மீது
இங்கே
கருத்துத்
தெரிவித்து
பேசிய
இன்னும்
சில
உறுப்பினர்கள்
பேசுகின்றபோது,
ஐ.நா.
சபை
ராஜபக்ஷேவை
போர்க்
குற்றவாளி
என்று
அறிவித்து
விட்டதாக
இங்கே
தெரிவித்தார்கள்.
அப்படியில்லை.
ஐ.நா.
சபையின்
பொதுச்
செயலாளர்
பான்
கீ
மூன்
அவர்கள்
ஒரு
குழுவை
அமைத்து,
அவர்கள்
அங்கே
நிகழ்த்தப்பட்ட
போர்க்
குற்றங்களைப்
பற்றி
ஒரு
அறிக்கை
சமர்ப்பிக்க
வேண்டுமென்று
தெரிவித்தார்.
அந்தக்
குழு
சமர்ப்பித்த
அறிக்கையில்,
இப்படிப்பட்ட
போர்க்
குற்றங்களெல்லாம்
நிகழ்த்தப்பட்டதாகக்
கூறப்படுகிறது;
அங்கே
வாழ்கின்ற
தமிழ்
மக்கள்
மீது
இத்தகைய
குற்றங்களெல்லாம்,
கொடுமைகளெல்லாம்
நிகழ்த்தப்பட்டன
என்பதையெல்லாம்
தெரிவித்துவிட்டு,
இதனை
இலங்கை
அரசே
விசாரிக்க
வேண்டும்
என்றுதான்
சொல்லியிருக்கிறார்களே
தவிர,
இதை
உறுதியும்
செய்யவில்லை
- ராஜபக்ஷேவோ,
மற்றவர்களோ
போர்க்
குற்றவாளிகள்
என்று
ஐ.நா.
சபை
அறிவிக்கவும்
இல்லை.
அதனால்தான்
இந்தத்
தீர்மானத்தில்
இந்திய
அரசு
போர்க்
குற்றம்
புரிந்தவர்களை,
போர்க்
குற்றவாளிகள்
என்று
பிரகடனப்படுத்த
வேண்டும்,
இதற்கு
ஐ.நா.
சபையை
வலியுறுத்த
வேண்டும்
என்று
தீர்மானம்
கொண்டு
வந்திருக்கிறோம்.எனவே,
மனிதாபிமானமற்ற
முறையில்
பல்லாயிரக்கணக்கான
இலங்கைத்
தமிழர்கள்
சுட்டுக்
கொல்லப்படுவதற்குக்
காரணமானவர்களை
போர்க்
குற்றவாளிகள்
என்று
பிரகடனப்படுத்த
ஐக்கிய
நாடுகள்
சபையை
இந்திய
அரசு
வற்புறுத்த
வேண்டும்
என்றும்;
இலங்கையில்
உள்ள
அகதிகள்
முகாம்களில்
தங்க
வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள
தமிழர்களுக்கு
முழு
மறுவாழ்வு
அளித்து,
அவர்கள்
வசித்த
இடங்களிலேயே
அவர்களை
மீண்டும்
குடியமர்த்தி;
சிங்களர்களுக்கு
உரிய
அனைத்து
குடியுரிமைகளையும்
தமிழர்களுக்கு
இலங்கை
அரசு
வழங்கும்
வரையில்
மற்ற
நாடுகளுடன்
இணைந்து
இலங்கை
அரசு
மீது
பொருளாதாரத்
தடையை
விதிக்க
வேண்டும்
என்றும்
மத்திய
அரசை
வலியுறுத்தி,
அரசு
சார்பில்,
என்னால்
முன்மொழியப்பட்ட
தீர்மானத்தினை
இந்த
மாமன்றம்
ஒரு
மனதாக
நிறைவேற்றித்
தர
வேண்டும்
என்று
கேட்டுக்
கொள்கிறேன்,'
என்று
ஜெயலலிதா
பேசினார்.இத்தீர்மானத்தின்
மீது
நடைபெற்ற
விவாதத்தில்
அனைத்துக்கட்சி
உறுப்பினர்களும்
கலந்துகொண்டு
பேசினர்.
முதல்வரின்
பதில்
உரைக்கு
பின்னர்
அனைத்து
உறுப்பினர்களின்
ஆதரவுடன்
தீர்மானம்
நிறைவேறியது.
இலங்கை
அரசிற்கெதிராக
பொருளாதாரத்
தடை
விதிக்க
வேண்டும்
என
தமிழக
முதலமைச்சர்
சட்டசபையில்
அறிவிப்பு
:
தமிழ்நாட்டு
முதலமைச்சர்
செல்வி
ஜெயலலிதா
ஜெயராம்இன்று
இலங்கை
அரசிற்கெதிரான
பொருளாதாரத்
தடைவிதிக்க
வேண்டும்
என
அறிவித்துள்ளார்.
இன்றைய
தினம்சட்டசபையில்
உரையாற்றும்
பொழுது
இலங்கை
அரசிற்குஎதிராக
பொருளாதாரத்தடை
விதிக்க
வேண்டும்.
அதன்மூலம்
இலங்கையில்
முகாம்டகளில்
நெருக்கடியில்உள்ள
தமிழர்கள்
அங்குள்ள
சிங்கள
மக்களுக்கும்
சமமானமுறையில்
உரிமைகளைப்
பெற்று
வாழ
முடியும்
எனஅறிவித்துள்ளார்.
ஜெயலலிதா
இதனை
முன்மொழிந்த
பொழுது
சட்டசபையில்இது
ஏகமனதாக
நிறைவேறியுள்ளது.
சர்வதேசத்துடன்இணைந்து
இந்திய
அரசு
இலங்கை
அரசு
மீதுபொருளாதாரத்தடையைக்
கொண்டு
வந்தால்
மட்டுமேஇலங்கை
அரசு
அதனைக்
கவனத்தில்
எடுத்து
நடவடிக்கைஎடுக்கும்
எனத்
தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.
பொருளாதார
தடையானது
ஏற்கனவே
போரினால்பாதிக்கப்பட்டு
சிக்கலில்
வாழும்
சிறுபான்மை
மக்களையும்பாதிக்கும்
என
காங்கிரஸ்
கட்சியின்
சவுந்தரராஜன்
என்பவர்கேட்டபோது
இவ்வாறு
பொருளாதாரத்தடை
விதித்தால்மட்டுமே
இலங்கை
அரசு
சரியாக
செயற்படும்
எனத்தெரிவித்தார்.
மேலும்
ஐ.நாவின்
அறிக்கை
தொடர்பில்
ஜெயலலித்தாதெரிவித்த
பொழுது
இனப்
படுகொலை
வெறுமனேபான்கீமுனின்
சாப்பிலான
வெறும்
மூவரின்
அறிக்கைமட்டுமே.
இதனை
ஐ.நாவின்
அறிக்கை
எனக்
கூற
முடியாது.இதனை
அடிப்படையாக
வைத்துக்
கொண்டு
ஐநா
செயற்படவேண்டும்.
எனத்
தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.
அதன்
மூலமே
இலங்கை
அரசை
இனப்படுகொலைஅரசாகஅறிவித்து
இலங்கை
தொடர்பில்
நடவடிக்கை
எடுக்கமுடியும்
எனவும்
குறிப்பிட்டள்ளார்.