“Without accepting this hard reality and attempting to resolve the conflict by high risk militarily operation against the Tamils in the De Facto state in North under the LTTE armed forces of Eelam, much like the way, the present Rajapkasa’s regime currently embarked on, can only produce more suffering to whole of people of Sri Lanka and drag the country to ice age with serious irrecoverable consequences for generation to come.”
by Grace S from Vanni
(August 21, Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lankan war intensifies and civilians are worst affected by the on going bloody war in the North of Sri Lanka where the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) runs their own affairs in the De Facto state where close to 400,000 people living in the area.
According to the latest reports emerging from Vanni, half of the population in Vanni has been displaced and living under subhuman condition for the past two and a half months as Sri Lanka stepped up the daily sea, land and air attacks on these people.
Three decades old civil war in Sri Lanka killed at least 215,000 people mostly Tamils according to the surveys done by the UN World Health Organization. Sri Lanka consist of Sinhalese Buddhist who are majority and Tamils are minority who struggling for the Self Determination Rights for last sixty years who are mostly Hindu.
In 2008 January, Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, disavowed a 2002 cease-fire that Norwegian mediators had negotiated between the government and the LTTE. Cease-fire monitors from several Nordic countries were sent back by the Sri Lankan government and escalated the military attacks on Tamils in the North and East of Sri Lanka. The LTTE responded with attacks on army forces in the north and east as well as bombings in the capital, Colombo.
The government has opted to end the conflict by escalating the bloody military advancement into the LTTE area and by winning the war. Political and military leaders speak of crushing the Tigers by the end of the year.
London-Based, The Amnesty International said, within past 24 months, hundreds of people have reportedly been abducted by the Sri Lankan Security Forces (SF) or armed groups in areas in the north and east of Sri Lanka, as well as elsewhere in the country including the capital Colombo.
Meanwhile, New York-Based, Human Rights Watch (HRW) cited the rights abuses such as enforced mass abductions, mass disappearances, unlawful execution style summery killings, mass murders, tortures, rapes, destruction of personal, public and cultural properties, forceful displacements and unwillingness and inability of the Sri Lankan state to take control the worsening rights situation of the citizens of Sri Lanka are the reasons for their call for UN monitoring mission.
The Asian Human Rights Commission says "The government fearing that international reports on violations of human rights may lead to the sending of UN human rights monitors or other forms of intervention, rather believes that silencing critics is the way to avoid the situation. Thus, aggressive rhetoric has become a characteristic of spokesmen for the government"
The reality is Sri Lanka is responsible for large-scale disappearances, abductions, and killings of Tamil Civilians in Sri Lanka and failed to take all steps necessary to stop the practice enforced state terrorism.
Asian powers China, Pakistan and India are competing for influence in Sri Lanka. These reasons alone make the longest arms struggle in the region to prolong further as solution to this conflict become more complex.
U.N, U.S, E.U, India and many other world powers agrees, Sri Lanka's conflict must be resolved politically not by militarily and a lasting solution will require majority Singhalese leaders concedes meaningful and substantial self-rule to the Tamils in the combined North and East of Sri Lanka, perhaps Two nations solutions where both Singhala and Tamil nations lives side by side that would maintains the permanent peace.
Sir Hugh Cleghorn wrote in June 1799 to the UK Government on the Tamils and Singhalease:
"Two different nations from a very ancient period have divided between them the possession of the Island. First the Sinhalese, inhabiting the interior of the country in its Southern and Western parts, and secondly the Malabars (Tamils) who possess the Northern and Eastern Districts. These two nations differ entirely in their religion, language and manners."
Without accepting this hard reality and attempting to resolve the conflict by high risk militarily operation against the Tamils in the De Facto state in North under the LTTE armed forces of Eelam, much like the way, the present Rajapkasa’s regime currently embarked on, can only produce more suffering to whole of people of Sri Lanka and drag the country to ice age with serious irrecoverable consequences for generation to come.
- Sri Lanka Guardian
by Grace S from Vanni
(August 21, Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lankan war intensifies and civilians are worst affected by the on going bloody war in the North of Sri Lanka where the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) runs their own affairs in the De Facto state where close to 400,000 people living in the area.
According to the latest reports emerging from Vanni, half of the population in Vanni has been displaced and living under subhuman condition for the past two and a half months as Sri Lanka stepped up the daily sea, land and air attacks on these people.
Three decades old civil war in Sri Lanka killed at least 215,000 people mostly Tamils according to the surveys done by the UN World Health Organization. Sri Lanka consist of Sinhalese Buddhist who are majority and Tamils are minority who struggling for the Self Determination Rights for last sixty years who are mostly Hindu.
In 2008 January, Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, disavowed a 2002 cease-fire that Norwegian mediators had negotiated between the government and the LTTE. Cease-fire monitors from several Nordic countries were sent back by the Sri Lankan government and escalated the military attacks on Tamils in the North and East of Sri Lanka. The LTTE responded with attacks on army forces in the north and east as well as bombings in the capital, Colombo.
The government has opted to end the conflict by escalating the bloody military advancement into the LTTE area and by winning the war. Political and military leaders speak of crushing the Tigers by the end of the year.
London-Based, The Amnesty International said, within past 24 months, hundreds of people have reportedly been abducted by the Sri Lankan Security Forces (SF) or armed groups in areas in the north and east of Sri Lanka, as well as elsewhere in the country including the capital Colombo.
Meanwhile, New York-Based, Human Rights Watch (HRW) cited the rights abuses such as enforced mass abductions, mass disappearances, unlawful execution style summery killings, mass murders, tortures, rapes, destruction of personal, public and cultural properties, forceful displacements and unwillingness and inability of the Sri Lankan state to take control the worsening rights situation of the citizens of Sri Lanka are the reasons for their call for UN monitoring mission.
The Asian Human Rights Commission says "The government fearing that international reports on violations of human rights may lead to the sending of UN human rights monitors or other forms of intervention, rather believes that silencing critics is the way to avoid the situation. Thus, aggressive rhetoric has become a characteristic of spokesmen for the government"
The reality is Sri Lanka is responsible for large-scale disappearances, abductions, and killings of Tamil Civilians in Sri Lanka and failed to take all steps necessary to stop the practice enforced state terrorism.
Asian powers China, Pakistan and India are competing for influence in Sri Lanka. These reasons alone make the longest arms struggle in the region to prolong further as solution to this conflict become more complex.
U.N, U.S, E.U, India and many other world powers agrees, Sri Lanka's conflict must be resolved politically not by militarily and a lasting solution will require majority Singhalese leaders concedes meaningful and substantial self-rule to the Tamils in the combined North and East of Sri Lanka, perhaps Two nations solutions where both Singhala and Tamil nations lives side by side that would maintains the permanent peace.
Sir Hugh Cleghorn wrote in June 1799 to the UK Government on the Tamils and Singhalease:
"Two different nations from a very ancient period have divided between them the possession of the Island. First the Sinhalese, inhabiting the interior of the country in its Southern and Western parts, and secondly the Malabars (Tamils) who possess the Northern and Eastern Districts. These two nations differ entirely in their religion, language and manners."
Without accepting this hard reality and attempting to resolve the conflict by high risk militarily operation against the Tamils in the De Facto state in North under the LTTE armed forces of Eelam, much like the way, the present Rajapkasa’s regime currently embarked on, can only produce more suffering to whole of people of Sri Lanka and drag the country to ice age with serious irrecoverable consequences for generation to come.
- Sri Lanka Guardian
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