"We are urging UN to not to protect him but to support UN Human Rights Council action on Sri Lankan President"
(September 20, 2012, New York, Sri Lanka Guardian)Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) announced today that a rally will be held outside the United Nations headquarters in New York to protest Sri Lankan President's visit to the UN General Assembly.
The rally will be held on September 26th (Wednesday), from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.
This rally is to highlight the gravity of the crimes the Sri Lankan President have committed against Tamil and to alert the UN leaders that among them is a war criminal posing as a Statesman.
"We urge the UN not to allow the Sri Lankan President to use his appearance at the UN to sanitize his barbaric international crimes. His is not just a war criminal, but a perpetrator of genocide" said a TGTE spokesperson.
According to a UN Panel over 40,000 Tamils were killed in five months due to deliberate and intense carpet bombing of areas designated by the government as "no-fire zones", where Tamils assembled for safety.
After the Sri Lankan Government's military offensive, Bishop Rayappu noted that 146,679 people were still not accounted for in the region.
The Sri Lankan Government also restricted food and medicine for Tamils, resulting in large numbers of people dying from starvation and many of the injured bleeding to death.
In addition to the killings, thousands of Tamils have disappeared, Tamil women were sexually assaulted and raped, large numbers of Tamils are imprisoned without trial and abductions are continuing to this day.
Tamils are singled out to face these abuses simply and solely on account of their Tamil nationality. Members of the Sri Lankan Security forces are almost exclusively from the Sinhalese ethnic community and the victims are all from the Tamil ethnic community.
Due to the shear number of civilian killings by the Sri Lankan Security forces, the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution on accountability for these crimes and is about to review it in March 2013.
The Sri Lankan President is desperately trying to stall the UN Human Rights Council actions and is using international meetings like Un General Assembly to solicit support to protect him from the War Crimes Investigation.
"We are urging UN to not to protect him but to support UN Human Rights Council action on Sri Lankan President." continued the spokesperson.
TGTE also urged UN leaders to ask Sri Lankan President about the UN Panel report that documented mass killings by his troops and the two documentaries in the "Sri Lanka's Killing Fields" series produced by Channel 4 TV.
Please remind him that mass killing of civilians is a war crime and a crime against humanity and refuse to protect him. If he claims innocence, then urge him to face international investigation to prove just that.
"Given the ongoing structural genocide we are urging the International Community to establish an International Protection Mechanism." said a TGTE spokesperson.
