Raise War Crimes with Visiting Sri Lankan President
( March 13, 2013, New York City, Sri Lanka Guardian) As the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse begins his State visit to Japan, the Prime Minister of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE), Mr. Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, urged the Primie Minister of Japan to raise war crimes and genocide committed by the visiting Sri Lankan President. Sri Lankan President begins his State visit to Japan on March 12, 2013.
“We also urged you to support an International Commission of Inquiry on Sri Lanka, just as with North Korea” continued Mr. Rudrakumaran.
"Troops under Sri Lankan President's command killed between 70,000 to 100,000 Tamils (U.N. Internal Review Report) in only five months in 2009 and raped Tamil women" said Mr. Rudrakumaran. "Tamils were singled out simply and solely on account of their Tamil nationality."
Since 1958, Tamils faced repeated mass killings. The 2009 killings prompted UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to appoint a Panel of Experts to report on the scale of killings. Reports discovered five months of deliberate and intense carpet bombing of areas government designated "no-fire zones", where Tamils assembled for safety.
"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."
According to the UN Panel, the abuses amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Independent experts believe conditions exist that constitute these killings acts of genocide. The UN Panel recomended an International Commission of Inquiry.
During the March 2012 session, The UN Human Rights Council looked into the mass killing and passed an accountability resolution for international crimes. There is another Resolution at the current UNHRC Session taking place in Geneva.
We urge you to support a strong resolution calling for the creation of International Commission of Inquiry on Sri Lanka at this Session of the UN Human Rights Council.
"According to Bishop of Mannar, Dr. Rayappu Joseph, 146,679 Tamils went missing when Sri Lankan forces attacked Tamil people.”
"Members of the Sri Lankan Security forces are almost exclusively from the Sinhalese community and the victims are all from the Tamil community.”
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