The United Nations is able to investigate the war crimes which occurred recently in Sri Lanka, British human rights lawyer and international war crimes judge, Geoffrey Robertson QC said Sunday, May 31.
The silence of those who were warned of civilian deaths in Sri Lanka is shameful. They must speak out now to prevent future atrocities wrote The Times in an editorial on 30 May.
Evidence gathered by The Times has revealed that at least 20,000 Tamils were killed on the beach by shelling as the army closed in on the Tigers wrote the Times in an editorial on 29 May.
The Sri Lankan government and local media, who are increasingly hostile to the West, believe that European nations including Britain, France and Sweden are influencing the US Obama administration to block the IMF loan to Sri Lanka until Colombo adheres to its obligations under international humanitarian laws.
Despite a financial crisis which has led to Sri Lanka seeking USD 1.9 billion emergency loan from the IMF and even after declaring victory over the LTTE, the Sri Lankan Army is planning to increase its military strength by 50% according to its chief.
United National Party (UNP), Sri Lanka’s main opposition, has said the government should defeat the ‘Eelam ideology’ and stressed the need to take action on Tamil political parties to remove the Eelam ‘tag’ from their names.
The vote by the United Nations Human Rights Council to congratulate the Sri Lanka Government on its victory over the Tamil Tigers and to ignore calls for an inquiry into possible war crimes is a disgrace.
More than the massacre, maiming and incarceration, what causes the height of the trauma to Eelam Tamils is the utter disregard of the norms of civilization and shameful deceit committed by India, the International Community and the United Nations in the happenings of the island of Sri Lanka.
As the Sri Lankan army closed in, the Tigers made a desperate plea to a Sunday Times correspondent to help stave off annihilation, said reports on May 25.
In the final hours of the war, Sri Lanka executed a well-planned massacre of several unarmed civil officers of the LTTE with the aim of annihilating its political structure.
The next time you buy some lingerie, a T-shirt or a pair of rubber gloves, you may want to reflect on this: they were probably made in Sri Lanka. And like it or not, your purchase plays a role in the debate over how to respond to the Sri Lankan Government's successful but brutal military campaign against the Tamil Tiger rebels, which reached its bloody climax this week.
